The kitty prays for me because he knows MVN is making a transition to another platform tonight and he wants that TQBR not experience severe technical difficulties in doing so. After all, severe technical difficulties are more the norm under the current platform than not, as you would know if you’ve found yourself leaving eight […]

I’m in full-on skeptical mode about anything anybody says about HBO right now, including what HBO says about HBO, but Yahoo!’s Kevin Iole has an extensive piece on the network that has some mighty interesting good news in it… if it’s true. Coming on the heels of the scathing HBO piece from last week by […]

With the return of Floyd Mayweather, Jr. has come the return of some of his more fanatical followers, as recent weeks here prove. As with all fans, there are some who are quite intelligent and respectful in their defenses of Mayweather, but there is a segment that thinks “I bet you don’t get much ass” […]

(Israel Vazquez at an open workout last week; Gene Blevins, Hoganphotos/Golden Boy Promotions) It’s good to see Izzy again, ain’t it? His return to the ring this week is naturally the highlight of the boxing schedule, thus his giant photo highlighting a blog entry about the week’s schedule. We get started early this week because […]

With haste, happenings from the weekend: I’d had that suspicion that Shane Cameron wasn’t ready, and the heavyweight got demolished in two rounds by David Tua in the New Zealand Fight of the Century. You can watch the fight here, at least until YouTube takes it down. Tua at 237 was in the best shape […]

At right is one of the badass photos from a series of photos for the Showtime Super Six tourney, taken by renowned photographer Howard Schatz. If you want to see more than just the one of super middleweight Andre Dirrell — and you should, because, did I mention, they are badass? — you can see […]

[UPDATED: Dan Rafael, one of the best beat reporters in the biz, has challenged Thomas Hauser’s figures. If Rafael’s correct — and on the outside looking in, I have no way of knowing who’s right — the central good thing about Hauser’s piece falls away. Keep this in mind as you read the below story. […]

I’m getting the open thread started a little early (it isn’t yet the 1st Of Tha Month) and at an odd hour, but it’ll go until tomorrow afternoon at least. Most of you are West Coasters anyhow. Business items: Book club discussion begins. What’d everyone think of our first book, “Hands of Stone?” I’ll save […]

When I think New Zealand, I think David Tua and I think “Flight of the Concords.” Do I leave out “Lord of the Rings” because I learned from watching “Flight of the Concords” that Kiwis hate it when you bring that up? Maybe. Or maybe I just like boxing and fake folk groups more than […]

(The blubber of Chris Arreola, left, flaps as he is punched by Vitali Klitschko, with a right and at right. Photo: Pavel Terekhov) I could like Dana White, I really could. I respect what the man does promoting the UFC, giving fans the best match-ups most of the time, loading up his undercards from top […]

You can’t say enough about Chris Arreola charging ahead bravely Saturday night despite taking more flush shots from mega-punching heavyweight Vitali Klitschko than anyone had ever received, but what it got Arreola was what everyone else gets from Vitali: knocked out. The referee stopped the fight at the end of the 10th over the protests […]

There are moments in life where you feel like you’ve really done something. Today is one of those days for me. On page 24 of this November issue of Ring magazine, the Bible of Boxing, you’ll find a feature penned by yours truly, a profile of middleweight boxing prospect Edwin Rodriguez. I don’t think I […]

If it seems like we’ve been talking about Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez all week, well, we kind of have been. But there’s yet more business to take care of there. Don’t worry, it won’t get all heated and “Mayweather sucks” vs. “Mayweather is awesome” this time. We dodged that fate earlier today. Beyond that subject, […]

It’s official. HBO announced that Floyd Mayweather – Juan Manuel Marquez hit the 1 million number in pay-per-view buys. That is a shockingly high number. And it means a good deal. The first thing it means is that boxing isn’t dead. Consider that every lazy-minded sports journalist in America keeps saying, “Mixed martial arts is […]

(Lyle Fitzsimmons, pictured at right, singing, “Brave sir Floyd…”) There is no more sycophantic a writer amongst major boxing journalists who worship one specific fighter than Lyle Fitzsimmons, the BoxingScene/Miami Herald/TSN scribe who regularly sings the praises of Floyd Mayweather, Jr. as though a bard to the king. The sycophantic competition is fierce, mind you, […]