It’s not Gus Johnson calling a boxing match, but the above video (NSFW?) does ring familiar for those of us accustomed to listening to him on Showtime. In these Quick Jabs, we take the subjects in the headline and mix it up with some other tidbits and some fights in the works (Peterson brothers! Showtime […]

(David Haye, via The Daily Mail) It’s hard to believe we’re coming into David Haye-John Ruiz Saturday and the ultra-aggressive Haye is the one who drew criticism after his last fight for being too ugly and passive, while the famously huggy Ruiz in his last fight bucked his reputation as a grind-it-out mauler. But both […]

Man, last fall when the talks got serious, I was this close to thinking Roy Jones Jr.-Bernard Hopkins II this Saturday on pay-per-view stood a chance of being worthwhile, even if it was a decade late and Jones was well past his best days. Jones wasn’t as vital a force as Hopkins remained, but this […]

We’ll be doing full previews of both Roy Jones-Bernard Hopkins II and David Haye-John Ruiz, but because the boxing schedule gets started early this week with a fight featuring David Tua (pictured above in a pimped-out mini; h/t to friend of the site PJ), we’ll hit everything but Jones-Hopkins II and Haye-Ruiz now. David Tua-Friday […]

This was the weekend when picking upsets finally paid off in the TQBR Prediction Game. Three of the four weekend bouts ended with the betting underdog getting the win. We’re talking lots of available bonus points there. And we encountered some unique conditions that might lead to a scoring controversy. I do not relish the […]

What a terrible week it’s been for boxers doing the right thing. And too often, undeserving people have been victimized by it all. The one with the most immediate ramifications: Joan Guzman (right) again coming in overweight, this time for Saturday’s rematch with Ali Funeka (left), and not just a little — nine pounds above […]

It was around the end of 2008 when the amount of boxing on television took a dire turn for the worse. Wednesday Night Fights on ESPN2 had died off, and Telefutura’s Solo Boxeo would meet its maker, too. For a while there it looked like Versus might step up to the plate and take over […]

Besides this and this and this, there’s yet more boxing this week in what amounts to as the craziest boxing weekend of the year so far. Just about the craziest weekend in recent memory, really. I will show you. But first, I will greedily complain that it could have been even MORE crazy, in a […]