Chad Dawson is a true talent, as he showed in his dominant win over fellow top light heavyweight Glen Johnson Saturday on HBO, but whether you like him or not is a whole different matter. The reviews are pretty positive about Dawson today, from a boxing standpoint — he’s like a bigger Floyd Mayweather, he’s […]

Manny Pacquiao’s looking pretty much like a bowss right there on the cover of Time mag, the Asian edition. I’ll have more to say on his latest publicity blitz in half a minute. Mainly I’m just happy that a few fights I’ve been writing about every week for months are getting unstuck to varying degrees, […]

It’s lonely here on Pro-Chad Dawson Island, where at any moment we’re prone to being invaded by The Principality Of Anti-Chad Dawson. Whereas we few Islanders see an ultra-talented, young American star with considerable skills, a pretty deep resume and an offensive-minded boxer who doesn’t back down, The Principality’s many citizens see a boxer who […]

I already hit you with previews of the biggest fights of the weekend — Chad Dawson-Glen Johnson II at light heavyweight, Nicolay Valuev-David Haye at heavyweight — but there are other things you need to know that are going down, starting in a few hours. And so, quite simply, I will tell you. ESPN Friday […]

“David Haye as savior of the heavyweight division” may always have been a little far-fetched, what with the way he didn’t exactly handle getting punched in the face by smaller men all that well in the cruiserweight division he once ruled. But I saw enough potential there to get somewhat excited. Haye is fast, skilled, […]

Bantamweight Joseph Agbeko’s getup for his ring walk Saturday night was a gorilla mask and a woman leading him in with chains. Apparently this caused somebody at Showtime some consternation — I didn’t hear anybody say anything, although judging from some Internet talk there was some kind of disclaimer — because, well, Agbeko is black, […]

The Madness. Oh, The Madness. Speak what’s on your mind, people, boxing-related or no.   Although I’d like it if you took a moment to address these brief items of business: 1. Talk about what you thought of “Irish Thunder,” this month’s book club book. 2. Select from these options for next month’s book club […]

You just don’t see fights that often with the pace of Yonnhy Perez-Joseph Agbeko, a bantamweight battle on Showtime Saturday night that featured an astronomical number of hard, clean power punches. Perez came out on top with a unanimous decision in a raucously entertaining and well-fought war. I had him winning eight rounds to four, […]

Happy Halloween. What do you think would happen if Manny Pacquiao (at right) fought the actual Batman (not his trainer Freddie Roach dressed as the Dark Knight, at left)? Answer if you’re a Pacquiao fanatic: “Pacquiao would make him taste the canvas in one round and then knock out Superman in the 2nd round!!!!” Answer […]

There are little pockets of the boxing schedule that offer dark horse opportunities for one of the best fights of any given year to emerge, and Saturday on Showtime brings the latest. You can’t say the bantamweight bout between Joseph Agbeko and Yonnhy Perez is a well-kept secret, or that people think Perez can’t win, […]

Who loves media notes? C’mon, who? What, nobody? And when I do it I inevitably piss off some journalist who subsequently gives me grief? Makes me wonder whether it’s worth it. But duty is duty. I do strongly believe in the idea of blogs checking the so-called “mainstream media,” so boxing writing is just as […]

That was as good as advertised, that “Muhammad And Larry.” It wasn’t even quite a full hour, but the documentary about the fight between Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes made me feel sad, angry, touched, tickled and embarrassed. It’s an exceptionally well-made film, painful as it is, on the whole, to watch. ESPN is to […]

I know I said in the headline I wasn’t going to talk about Joseph Agbeko-Yonnhy Perez — I’m going to give the bantamweight bout its own preview later this week — but that picture needed to run immediately. The contrast between the smiling mugs of Agbeko and Perez, and the eye-bulging look on the face […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bD-aUQKnTw The video above (more like “at left” at least on my computer, because of ongoing technical difficulties with the site) starts us off on a good note — it’s the first of three clips you can watch of the stirring Fight of the Year-caliber bout between Ryan Rhodes and Jamie Moore. Later on in […]

Any time a ShoBox main event pits two 30-something “prospects” against each other and the most intriguing question of the accompanying fight is how the journeyman whose last opponent died after the fight will bounce back emotionally in his undercard fight against a future journeyman, you know it’s time to kick the habit. Showtime, you […]