Welcome to The Queensberry Rules’ annual year-end awards, starting today and continuing throughout the week. Here’s how we do it around these parts:  The major categories are Round of the Year, Knockout of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final day is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging from […]

As stunning as the visuals are for Sergio Martinez’ knockout of Paul Williams in their rematch — the arc and momentum on that left hand, the perfect connection between jaw and fist, Martinez’ closed eyes, the way Williams melted to the ground, the chilling image of Williams’ eyes wide open as he lay unconcious — […]

(Jean Pascal at left, Bernard Hopkins at right; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Maybe the ravages of age couldn’t take away 45-year-old Bernard Hopkins’ chances of becoming the oldest man to win a world championship belt, but the judges could. Three of them collectively scored a draw Saturday between Hopkins and light heavyweight champ Jean Pascal […]

Best coat hook caption ever. Now, on to fights in the works that do not involve drunken octopi, but, rather, professional boxers. (And since I rarely post them this close together, don’t forget to check out Quick Jabs, just below this entry.) Round And Round Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao will be presented by Top Rank […]

I’m not sure what’s going on in that picture, but I can surmise that Oscar De La Hoya is erotically feeding his company Golden Boy’s prized junior welterweight Amir Khan some cake, and that Khan’s strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza in the background is so disgusted by it that he’s on the verge of […]

Jean Pascal-Bernard Hopkins this Saturday on Showtime in Quebec City will be ugly, and it will also be important. Pascal has been in fun fights yet is often awkward, and he is also the true, lineal Ring magazine light heavyweight champion. Bernard Hopkins hasn’t been in a fun two-way action fight for years, but he’s […]

With four fights over the past weekend, it could’ve been a points bonanza for contestants in TQBR Prediction Game 5.0. Instead, one fight — Victor Ortiz-Lamont Peterson — ended in a draw for which no points were awarded, and another of the fights nobody* got any points for, since nobody* picked the winner, Joseph Agbeko, […]

(Yonnhy Perez, left, and Joseph Agbeko, right; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) On weekend after another: Welcome to December and/or November of 2010, when something wildly interesting is happening on any given Saturday of boxing. We had Amir Khan dancing on the edge of Marcos Maidana’s destruction for 12 rounds, emerging with a showing of guts […]

Whatzit with boxers lately and assault charges that aren’t straight up beat downs? It makes those charges harder to react to normally. What you see above is the face of the security guard whom Floyd Mayweather allegedly poked to bring about some of Mayweather’s latest legal woes. The poke “reddened” and “discolored” the guard’s cheek. […]

(from left: Abner Mares, Yonnhy Perez, Vic Darchinyan and Joseph Agbeko; credit: Howard Schatz, Showtime) Long live the Showtime tournaments. Saturday inaugurates the second installment in the network’s recent tourney binge, a bantamweight series that takes the super middleweight series and boils it down to four people instead of six, and four fights to the […]