A strange week on the boxing calendar, with a not-quite-HBO-level HBO show and a whole bunch of lesser stuff, almost all of it on Saturday. Our video this week is some oddly beautiful and appropriately soundtracked slow motion footage of pitch invaders avoiding security guards before a Polish football match. Boxing’s own pitch invasion incident, […]

Gallagher in Slow Motion from FCTN on Vimeo.   Like the above video of a crazy old man smashing various objects with a hammer, this week's boxing matches should be entertaining, if not entirely meaningful. The action focuses around an Showtime televised quadruple header from Brooklyn's new Barclays Centre, headlined by junior welterweights Danny Garcia […]

It’s here, it’s finally here. Not just a full week of boxing, but one of the best cards of the year, an HBO doubleheader featuring junior featherweights Nonito Donaire and Toshiaki Nishioka as well as junior welterweights Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg; Wealth TV is showing two […]

What are you doing for the best part of the next two weeks? Probably not watching boxing, because there ain’t much on until the Friday after next. Instead, you could build a giant, three dimensional stack of dominoes. Or take some time to hang out with your family and loved ones. I dunno, whatever you’re […]

A relatively quiet schedule this week, with a strange HBO show and not much else. The strangeness at HBO is a prospect-oriented tripleheader, reportedly the leftovers from an aborted attempt to establish a ShoBox competitor. Apart from that, things are thin, with only heavyweight Alexander Povetkin’s deplorable fight with the shell of Hasim Rahman really […]

It’s the third week we’ve run with some kind of Gangnam Style-related clip to start the schedule. This week the excitement isn’t quite as appropriate, with a British show the only top shelf offering. Perhaps a slightly more self-conscious vid is just the ticket, then. Apart from the aforementioned Ricky Burns vs. Kevin Mitchell lightweight […]

Only Gangnam Style can do justice to how full the boxing schedule is this week. If you’re not as excited as the guy pelvic thrusting over Psy’s head, then you’re not a real boxing fan. Though you are permitted to show your excitement in a non-pelvic manner, if you so choose. The week’s offerings, almost […]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=G_s2YGJR57k?rel=0 Here at TQBR we don’t like to promote any violence of the non-sanctioned-outside-the-ring variety. But the above video is pretty funny. The hobo would have been a lot better off if he obeyed the old maxim “never bring a pair of crutches to a roadblock fight.” For the first time in what seems like […]

I can see the light! Or is it just the reflection from Arthur Abraham’s chrome dome? No, it’s definitely the light. The professional boxing drought of the last month is about to end. Sound the train horns attached to scooters! Hallelujah! Abraham’s super middleweight bout with Robert Stieglitz is about the best thing going on […]

Maybe, as a boxing fan, I’m just a fan of seeing people fall over. That might explain why I find this compilation of people fainting so funny. After rigorous scientific analysis, I’ve concluded that people falling over on their own is comical, but that it’s more satisfying to watch when they’ve been exchanging punches with […]