Jim Watt TKO12 Sean O’Grady, 1980 Sean O’Grady is likely best known for boxing commentating and interviewing on FoxSports and USA’s Tuesday Night Fights in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but once upon a time, he was actually a fighter — certainly not a bad one, but he struggled against just about anyone with […]

(This weekend’s combatants Brandon Rios, Nonito Donaire, Tosiaki Nishioka and Mike Alvarado; photo credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) The perils of explaining the ins and outs of the current boxing game to anyone that’s less than a hardcore fanatic are well-known to those who’ve tried. Your average boxing junkie has probably come up with stock […]

(Chamreon Songkitrat, left, and Jimmy Carruthers; Jay Robert Nash Collection) “Undefeated Jimmy Carruthers of Australia retained his world bantamweight title tonight by out-pointing Chamreon Songkitrat, Thailand police lieutenant, in a grueling, bloody 12-rounder fought in a driving rainstorm. Because of the heavy downpour, both fighter fought bare-footed, the first world title fight in Thailand’s history. […]

This week’s ShoBox action from Chumash Casino wound up being about as thrilling as its brief footnote in our man Alex McClintock’s boxing schedule suggested — that is to say, not all that thrilling, as two unbeaten fighters staved off blemishes on their records by relatively wide scores, and without much competitive action. In the […]

(Photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) LAS VEGAS — Despite the ribbing and teasing about the veracity of an announced sell out , most seats were occupied and spectators witnessed a nice night of fights courtesy of Showtime and Golden Boy Promotions at the MGM Grand Garden Arena tonight. But the man who drove the attendance up […]

(Edward Cook, Cassius Clay, Wilbert McClure; photo credit: FPG/Getty Images) “…And then I come home with the Olympic gold medal and the light heavyweight championship of the whole world representing my country, America. Coming back to this city called Louisville, Kentucky, where I was born and raised. And then go to a restaurant and can’t […]

(Bahodir Mamadjonov, left, and Darley Perez, right; Photo: Carlos Baeza/Thompson Boxing) Good action traced the dusky landscape of Cabazon, Ca. this evening, as this week’s Friday Night Fights from Morongo Casino showcased three unbeaten fighters coming for more than a paycheck. At the end of the night, Colombian lightweight Darley Perez stood victorious over Uzbekistan […]

(Photo: gold medalist Teofilo Stevenson [center], silver medalist Pyotr Zaev [left], bronze medalist Jurgen Fanghanel [right], 1980, AFP/Getty Images) Cruising into the guts of Olympic boxing this year, many of us boxing fans still feel foggy-headed as to whether or not we’re supposed to care, and if we are, why. The numbers are in, though, […]

  (Juan Carlos Burgos) In the latest edition of Friday Night Fights, ESPN2 helped us boxing junkies beat the heat for a couple of hours with a filling four-fight show. The broadcast didn’t get off to the most pristine of starts as “technical difficulties” delayed the live boxing, so ESPN stalled with rundowns of the […]

When Teddy Atlas correctly referred to Chicago as an “old fight town,” he probably didn’t mean shuffleboard with gloves on. Guys like Tony Canzoneri, Mushy Callahan and Fidel LaBarba fought at Wrigley field in the 1920s, and the Coliseum was for a time a famed boxing venue. But mummies and cobwebs looked to be the […]

  The last few weeks of boxing have served as a sort of prelude to what most expect to be an excellent next few months for the sport. Last weekend’s three-bout exhibition on Showtime about lived up to expectations, which were understandably low, though Friday Night Fights filled in some gaps with solid action a few weeks in a […]