The rest of June and all of July (at least based on what’s scheduled as of this writing) offer very little in the way of ultra-top-notch boxing cards, with only two weekends currently slated for what I consider fights that are all that important slash competitive. This week is the beginning of that trend. Now […]

Sorry I’d left and gone away for a couple days, friends. I’ve been traveling, and finishing up a freelance Ring magazine piece that was a spinoff from this blog entry a whiles back. But I left you in the capable hands of Scott and Carlos — check out both of their wonderfully written pieces. Although […]

NEW YORK CITY — Freakish endings are the order of the day in boxing, at least over the past month in the junior middleweight division. First we he had the catapult fight with Kermit Cintron flying out of the ring against Paul Williams, and after Saturday, now we have the knee injury/rejected towel-throwing fight where […]

NEW YORK CITY — Greetings from Yankee Stadium. The live blog starts when the HBO doubleheader kicks off, so come to this blog entry around then. I only ask two things: 1. I’ll post round-by-round, and will try to respond to comment in between. So if you’re expecting more than that, I can’t help you, […]

NEW YORK CITY — Some logistical snafus have made it so I couldn’t watch every undercard bout in full, but I’ve got things sorted out and I’m ringside for the televised portion of the card. Until then, here are some observations on the undercard, plus a note on last night, in chronological order. The Boxing […]

Steve Cunningham-Troy Ross Saturday in Germany is the fight of cruiserweights who would be stars. “Would be” is the key phrase. Cunningham’s Fight of the Year-caliber duel with Tomasz Adamek at the end of 2008 should have launched the charismatic ex-Marine into at least minor stardom, but the networks never took to him and promoter […]

I’d been waiting to see that. Now you can too, if you haven’t already. Quite the sizzling Round 3 between these two junior lightweights, Roman Martinez and Gonzalo Munguia. As always, the clip stays up as long as YouTube lets it stay…

Tonight, Showtime will air the next episode of Fight Camp 360, its documentary-style show about its super middleweight tournament. It might be hard to top last episode, but Allan Green has a big mouth and knows how to use it to hype his bout with Andre Ward this month — the man calls his right […]

We begin the Open Thread earlier in the day this month, so as to allow maximum participation for our overseas friends and for those who otherwise tend not to see the Open Thread until it’s just about wound down. And the Open Thread comes even though y’all haven’t been too chatty the last week or […]