(via CoachJohnWooden.com) Aside from the endless debates, speculations, accusations, hand-wringing, hair-pulling, and general mental instability surrounding the proposed Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather fight, another less heated, less debilitating, and ultimately more rectifiable debate has surrounded the two preeminent practitioners of the sweet science – who is the best fighter in the world, pound for pound? Mayweather […]

Sorry for the delay in tallying up the standings in TQBR Prediction Game 3.0. I had some girl drama to attend to, a busy stretch at the day job and frankly it was a pain in the ass mathematically that I put off because I knew it would be a pain in the ass mathematically. […]

Sometimes I wonder if anyone in the world ever actually knows what they are doing, or if everyone is just skating along on instinct, bullshit, and blind luck. I know that I’m doing that quite often, and I still find myself amazed that others are even more clueless than I. For example, I showed up […]

To the right, observe the blurry cover of the September issue of Ring magazine, where I have my first full-length feature after penning a couple smaller items. (It’s blurry because I hyper-inflated a super-small image from the table of contents.) My understanding is that the issue has already hit some mailboxes, so I feel obligated […]

To look at Pacland over the weekend, you’d think apocalypse had been visited upon the Philippines. A series of boxing matches that very weekend prompted the dour mood. Featherweight Bernabe Concepcion and junior featherweight Eden Sonsona lost by knockout. Flyweight Brian Viloria won, but in a closer-than-expected decision over a journeyman. Only junior bantamweight Nonito […]

Here’s your first leaderboard for TQBR Prediction Game 3.0. But before we get into the standings, I have a question for the playas: What fights should we do next for the game? Take a look at the schedule — several “bigger” fights aren’t expected to be too competitive until about August 7, and several smaller […]

Warning: This is not a happy column. This is an angry rant. If you are offended by liberal use of profanity and seething, unrepressed rage, I suggest you stop reading now and check out one of the hundreds of intelligently considered, profanity-free posts that make up the vast majority of TQBR. I also suggest you […]

(Tim isn’t the only one who can exploit patriotic imagery. ‘MERICA!) Ahh. This is why I spend my hard-earned (don’t laugh) money, trek through hateful traffic, suffer endless intermissions and dreadful undercard fights – because when a boxing card is as good as Friday night’s doubleheader at the Ballroom at Boardwalk Hall was, there is […]