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In A Night of Surprises, Lucian Bute Knocks Out The Unknockoutable Librado Andrade, Judges Rip Off Ali Funeka By Giving A Draw To Joan Guzman And Martin Honorio Upsets John Molina

Pretty interesting night at the fights Saturday on HBO, with the results of both halves of the double-header leaving me flabbergasted, some for the good reasons and some for the bad. The bad stuff came on the undercard. Judges rendered one of the worst decisions of 2009 by scoring the lightweight fight between Ali Funeka […]

Quick Jabs, Manny Pacquiao – Floyd Mayweather Edition

Yesterday was your Floyd Mayweather/Manny Pacquiao-free edition of Quick Jabs. This is your all- Pacquiao/Mayweather Quick Jabs. Seriously, there’s just so much talk about this fight that I could write a post a day about it. So, this week, and maybe in future weeks, I hit you with the week’s highlights. Formal negotiations began Monday […]

Quick Jabs: Ivan Calderon – Brian Viloria In Talks; Jennifer Lopez Takes To The Boxing Ring; Good Gates For Fights In Canada, Las Vegas; More

There’s so much Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather news lately I’m making this Quick Jabs a Mayweather-Pacquiao-free zone. Tomorrow, I’ll do a Pacquiao-Mayweather news round-up. That leaves this round-up with the subjects in the headline (including a brief mention of the Pacman); a few nice pieces of boxing journalism to check out; fights in the works for […]

Meta Notes: Read TQBR At TheSweetScience.com, The Ring

While I was completing the transition to the new site, where it took me a while to figure everything out, I needed an outlet to write something, and so I pitched a piece to the rock-solid Michael Woods at one of my favorite boxing websites, TheSweetScience.com. I talked to Bert Sugar, Al Bernstein, Cliff Rold […]

The Rest Of The Week’s Boxing Schedule: Japanese Fight Of The Century Coming Up; Bernard Hopkins And Roy Jones, Jr. Tune Up For Each Other; John Molina Steps Up

I confess, “Japanese Fight of the Century” is a slight exaggeration, but on Sunday, what some reckon might be the biggest fight in Japan in about 40 years is happening. Since we already had a “Polish Fight of the Century” and a “New Zealand Fight of the Century,” in 2009, I’m trying to get a […]

Mikkel Kessler – Andre Ward Preview And Prediction: The Best Of The First

  (In the original e-mail where Showtime sent this image, Ward’s ankle was listed at 17.5″, thicker than his calf. That’s some cankle, right there.) The latest installment of the Super Six tournament Saturday has a lot going for it, but a lot going wrong for it, too. Of the first round match-ups in Showtime’s […]

The Super Six Tournament And The “Revival” Of Boxing: Where Perception Meets Reality (And Why You, The Non-Boxing Fan, Should Care)

(The Six of the Super, from left to right: Andre Ward, Arthur Abraham, Carl Froch, Jermain Taylor, Mikkel Kessler, Andre Dirrell) A man could go crazy correcting every lazy reporter who reports the imminent death of boxing, a near-daily journalistic phenomenon mere weeks after a fight in the United States generated 1 million pay-per-view buys […]

Wanna Be Pound-For-Pound, Juan Manuel Lopez And Jorge Linares? PROVE It.

It almost doesn’t make sense to spend much time arguing for pound-for-pound criteria, because of how subjective it is, but dammit, like I’ve said, there’s more defensible and there’s less defensible. I’ve said time and time again that pound-for-pound standings ought to be based on record of actual accomplishment, rather than what people imagine a […]

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