One of the refrains of those who back Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito is, paraphrased, that you moral types who don’t like Margarito because of the loaded-gloves incident can ban the fight if you want, but it’s still going to sell because people love the controversy. On a similar note, Yahoo’s Kevin Iole recently penned a piece […]

Paul Williams-Sergio Martinez II: That’s more like it. Way, way, way more like it. It’s no secret that boxing is having a pretty terrible year, but Williams-Martinez II represents a meaningful thaw in the permafrost that is the tundra of 2010. Even when 2010 has had its good moments, something’s turned around and screwed it […]

One common rejoinder from some fans and writers alike to the Shane Mosley-Sergio Mora draw on Saturday is that it was a fair result because neither man “deserved” to win. I beg to differ, on two levels. The man who “deserves” to win a decision is the man who wins the most rounds. That’s the […]

David O. Russell does good work (I just quoted I Heart Huckabees in this space recently, in fact) and this trailer for “The Fighter,” about Micky Ward, starts slowly and builds good momentum. Some of the remarks I’ve seen about it say it looks pretty standard for a boxing story, but if you know Ward’s […]

Sergio Mora might be the only fighter I want banned more than Antonio Margarito. For all but a few rounds, he hardly did anything Saturday night; you might say he wasn’t a participant in his boxing match with Shane Mosley at all. Yet somehow he managed a draw in his junior middleweight bout with the […]

Unlike other combat sports, and simulated combat, the art of the ring entrance is often lost in boxing. Frequently, television networks won’t show entrances at all, opting to talk over graphics or highlight packages instead. When networks do decide to air fighters’ ring walks, we’re often met with a steady flow of cliché music choices, […]

It’s busy out there in the boxing world this week, starting tonight, even if there’s nothing that bowls one over. Nathan Cleverly-Karo Murat, Saturday, Birmingham England. This card has a ton of England’s biggest stars on them, so if you’re in the U.S. and you’re interested in checking out some of the talent over there, […]

The tough in the title is Orlando Salido, Yuriorkis Gamboa’s featherweight opponent on Saturday night’s Boxing After Dark. The tougher is Brandon Rios, whose pit-bull tenacity essentially made Anthony Peterson quit in their lightweight bout. It was a great night of fights on HBO, who have found themselves a new star in Rios. The supporting […]