As you can see by the headlining names, it’s not a big week of professional boxing. I guess boxing promoters and television executives, despite not realizing that counterprogramming each other is a bad idea, realize that counterprogramming the Olympics is a bad idea. Good on them for at least getting that right. As for the […]

Just like Will Arnett, we’re busy (and manly) here at TQBR. The Olympic boxing has us furiously tapping at keyboards and burning the midnight oil. The same thing cannot be said of the pro schedule which is rather, um, sparse this week. There are three televised shows which, you might have been able to guess […]

Look at these adorable little mofos fighting. If that had been on HBO on Saturday night instead of Adrien Broner and Keith Thurman I bet there’d be a lot less hullabaloo today. This week seems to have less potential for controversy, though there’s a prospective war and a possible upset in the two biggest shows. […]

From one of my favourite Youtube sub genres, crazy Russian driving videos, comes this beauty. That guy must thank his lucky stars every day. Junior lightweight Vicente Escobedo might identify, with the Adrien Broner express heading straight for him this weekend on HBO. Not that I’d count Escobedo out after all the upsets in recent […]

It’s the second week of July and the boxing schedule is even better and more packed than the first. If things keep going at this rate for the month, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather will be fighting on network TV on the 28th, followed by a civilised panel discussion between Oscar De La Hoya and […]

Welcome to July, ladies and gentleman. There’s boxing aplenty. It all starts off this week, with a decent enough HBO card and a potentially fun offering on ESPN2 on Friday. Wladimir Klitschko is also fighting, which is significant, if not particularly exciting. That’s all just an appetiser for what might be boxing’s best month this […]

This week I’ve got to rep my home country, Australia, with a hilarious video advertisement which won the Gold Lion at the Cannes adfest. Even if the beer is only average, the only thing more manly than that is boxing. This week there’s not all that much going on, despite a Saturday night show on […]

Thank god for Mexicans and Americans of Mexican descent, who are largely carrying professional boxing in the U.S.A,, at least this weekend. They did it last weekend, too, with an impressive win by middleweight Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., over Andy Lee in El Paso. A look at the trailer for the documentary “China Heavyweight” by […]

You thought Timothy Bradley was brave to keep fighting last week with injured ankles and feet and whatnot? Look at these models. What troopers. Like boxing, there’s something a little bit sick and a little bit satisfying about watching that video. Anyway, let’s wash the bitter taste of last week out of our collective mouth […]

Sticking with the theme from last week’s schedule, here’s a two minute video of movie characters saying “son of a bitch.” As usual, the heading video has nothing to do with the schedule, despite my occasional attempt to make a tenuous connection. Like this: It’s almost, but not quite, the kind of week that will […]

Wow, there’s not much going on this Doce de Mayo weekend. Maybe that’s because Doce de Mayo isn’t actually a Mexican holiday, it just means 12th of May in Spanish. What has this got to do with the video above? Or the boxing schedule for that matter? Very little, though that violent video is rather […]