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 […]

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 […]

Other than that they fall on the same night and same HBO card Thanksgiving weekend in Canada — I should say, the American Thanksgiving — Saturday’s super middeweight rematch between Lucian Bute and Librado Andrade and the lightweight fight between Joan Guzman and Ali Funeka appear to have little in common. Bute-Andrade II: Canadian vs. […]

Some of you have said you wish you had the option of being able to have a picture attached to your comments, like you used to. I got you. There are these things called “Gravatars.” You can use them here at TQBR. Go to www.gravatar.com. Sign up for an account, which will be tied to […]

What a superb performance. Andre Ward dismantled Mikkel Kessler Saturday on Showtime in the Super Six tournament, easily beating the tourney co-favorite and #1 super middleweight in the world by an 11-round technical decision. Ward had a far easier time of it than the all-time best super middleweight Joe Calzaghe when Calzaghe fought Kessler two […]

HBO announced Friday that Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto did 1.25 pay-per-view buys over the weekend, giving boxing its first year where two fights hit the 1 million mark since 1999. Here’s where I’d normally say, “Take that, ‘boxing is dead’ automatons!” but everybody finally seems to get it. I can, at least for the time being, […]

(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 […]

YouTube pirates have let me down, as no one has posted the full Fight of the Year candidate from this weekend between junior featherweight Juan Manuel Lopez and Rogers Mtagwa. Nor has anyone put up the featherweight return of Israel Vazquez. So, for this edition of Weekend Afterthoughts, I’m flying semi-blind. I’ve relied on a […]

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 […]

I’ve been as big a booster of Jorge Linares as anybody. The junior lightweight prospect really looked like the goods — speed, technique, power, heart. I wonder if him getting knocked out in one round in the video above shows everybody who’s been high on him is wrong, or if the unproven Juan Carlos Salgado […]