Look, the choice for Saturday evening was watch a couple mismatches on Showtime, or buy one of a couple pay-per-views that probably wouldn’t have been worth the money. I chose the Showtime mismatches. Super middleweights Mikkel Kessler and Andre Ward, set to meet in November in the exciting 168-pound Super Six tournament, both scored early, […]

Nothing, and I mean nothing, has gone right for Shane Mosley since the #1 welterweight and top-5 pound-for-pound boxer knocked out Antonio Margarito in January (Mosley, left, Margarito, right; credit: Getty Images). There was no Floyd Mayweather, Jr., nor any Manny Pacquiao, nor any Miguel Cotto. And now he may not even get the second-tier […]

It’s about time to dive head-first into next week’s Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez coverage. It all kicks off here Sunday, with daily posts about the event throughout the week. Also Sunday, I’ll be on Boxing Truth Radio, talking about Mayweather-Marquez, among other topics. I’ll try to set it up so you can listen from this […]

Jackassery of recent vintage, as predicted, from two of the most prominent figures in the boxing and mixed martial arts world, respectively. First up, UFC boss Dana White, badmouthing boxing: Second up, Top Rank Promotions boss Bob Arum, badmouthing MMA: I think some of the MMA fans I chatted with about this on Twitter after […]

Ever since Filipino Marvin Sonsona won a junior bantamweight title belt over the weekend, things have gotten a little wacky in the Philippines, and in particular in the household of another Filipino junior bantamweight titlist, Nonito Donaire Jr., whose estranged father trains Sonsona. It’s a story that includes shaky facts, family melodrama, national pride and […]

Shaq’s personality is such that he is the most entertaining portion of the above program, “Shaq Vs.,” more so than the idea of him fighting Oscar De La Hoya. Calling himself “Manny Shaquiao” is a stroke of comedy genius. His attempted assault on Bernard Hopkins mid-fight was hilarious. But I do think anyone who watches […]

Honestly, I have no idea why it took me so long to recognize that Liev Schreiber, the narrator of HBO’s “24/7” series, is the same Liev Schreiber who plays Sabretooth (above left). I even watched that tepid “Wolverine” movie on the plane back from Spain. It took until yesterday for me to be illuminated. “Mayweather/Marquez […]

It’s going to get pretty hard soon to avoid the dumb-as-rocks debate over boxing versus mixed martial arts, seeing as how on Sept. 19, the UFC and boxing each are putting on pay-per-view events. Maybe ignoring it is the right way to go. But the parade of morons on the MMA side — and, really, […]

They had a heckuva nice fight north of the border last night, with 19-year-old junior bantamweight Marvin Sonsona proving he was legit by defeating veteran Jose Lopez via decision. Sonsona came up big in two departments that undid other green Filipino prospects in the last year or two: chin (goodnight, Rey Bautista) and stamina (goodnight, […]

How many Quick Jabs is too many Quick Jabs? The answer: None many. None many Quick Jabs is too many Quick Jabs. So, a few days after my last such news round-up (complete with flippant and/or trenchant analysis) here’s another one. The big news of the week has to be Shane Mosley-Joshua Clottey, but it […]

(We’ve talked at TQBR several times recently about books on boxing, so the wonderful guest post below, by Jonathan Clarke, comes at a most timely occasion. Save this list. –Tim) Since so much of what passes for boxing journalism these days is thrown together to meet deadlines, it is easy to forget that over the […]

It’s funny what happens when you push yourself away from boxing for more than a week. Fights are a go then disappear. Fights are in jeopardy then are fine. You realize, really, how much of the news of boxing is gossip-driven, how much people react instantaneously to developments with such single-minded passion, only for counterpoints […]

Hiya, team. I’m back from Spain, where the cab drivers don’t know who Sergio Martinez is and where nothing went quite like it was supposed to. I missed the entirety of the tomato fight, for instance, not because several of my pals bailed out on going to it from Barcelona after committing months ago; I […]

& Good fights remind us why we love boxing. The atmosphere of an ecstatic crowd, the tension that builds when two fighters refuse to back down, the drama that unfolds as adversities mount – these fights write the history of the sport. Robinson-LaMotta. Graziano-Zale. Ali-Frazier. Hagler-Hears. Castillo-Corrales. Vazquez-Marquez. However, like most objects of love, boxing is not perfect. […]

When I started on Twitter, I envisioned it as a way of giving quick thoughts to readers of the blog in the right hand column, and little more. Then, mere months ago, very few boxers were on Twitter. Now, tons of ’em are, and more enlist every week. They are all of varying levels of […]