(Believe me, if you search “woman boxer” on images.google.com, you’ll come up with a lot more gratuitously titillating photos than the one above from womenboxing.com of Wendy Rodriguez, left, and Hollie Dunaway, right.) After the 2008 Olympics, I remember reading in some quarters that boxing was hanging by a thread, with softball, on the list […]

Add another huge fight to the fall ledger, and Compubox employees better make sure they have their backup punch-counting machines ready in case of overload: Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik will defend his Ring magazine belt Oct. 3 in Atlantic City against Paul Williams. Both long, tall powerful boxers thrive on overwhelming their opponents with volume, […]

Would that the Roy Jones, Jr. who once ruled as boxing’s pound-for-pound king had ever put the kind of promotional muscle into his fights against quality opponents that he does now. Jones famously snubbed the media in those days, when he was a joy to behold even if he could have made himself even more […]

Nonito Donaire is finally winning his critical acclaim, with many now considering him one of the 10 best fighters in the world. He is starting to get his spotlight, headlining his second consecutive pay-per-view card Saturday night. He is getting busier, fighting for the second time in 2009 after fighting only once in 2008. And […]

Maybe that got us off on the wrong foot. I only mean that the net total of intentional fouls needs to go up. It’s the kind of fouls that would boost those numbers that I want to discuss. I’m talking about retaliation. I was thinking about the Timothy Bradley-Nate Campbell junior welterweight fight from a […]

It was a good night to be a canine on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights, whether it was super middleweight Anthony “The Dog” Dirrell or junior middleweight Alfredo “El Perro” Angulo. Even the real mongrel Angulo brought in the ring on a leash before his fight was having a nice time. Dirrell started sloppy, lunging, winging […]

Would-be star junior middleweight Alfredo Angulo, above left, was last seen getting “exposed,” as some like to say in the boxing world, by Kermit Cintron, above right (photo credit: Naoki Fukuda). Some boxers would take an extremely soft opponent after a loss like that, but not Angulo. On ESPN2′s Friday Night Fights this evening, he’s […]

Anyone who’s traded elbows in this space with Manny Pacquiao’s fans know what a freaking phenomenon the man has become, and it’s hard to dispute the ring accomplishments of the junior welterweight champion and pound-for-pound king. But there have been some recent new indicators of his success that, taken collectively, suggest he’s bigger still than […]

Enough pessimism and sadness. We’re about a month and a half away from boxing kicking off an exciting fall season, a season that just got a little plumper with the agreement reached for Vitali Klitschko-Chris Arreola on Sept. 26, one of the best heavyweight fights that can be made right now. But the fall could […]

There’s defending the sport when it needs defending, and there’s acknowledging the truth when it’s evident: Boxing didn’t cover itself in glory over the weekend, in ways both grand and small. Timothy Bradley-Nate Campbell ended in a way that left a bad taste in just about everybody’s mouths. On the same Showtime junior welterweight card, […]

Like a special edition of ShoBox, this special edition of the Open Thread features a contest where you can win some sweet prizes. As a reminder, here’s the deal and rules: Come up with a design for a t-shirt for this website. It must say “The Queensberry Rules” somewhere on it, but otherwise it’s all […]

Watching “Assault In The Ring” on HBO, the documentary about boxing’s infamous Resto-Collins scandal, filled me with icky, icky feelings. The scandal itself is plenty icky: Luis Resto gets caught with tampered gloves after beating up Billy Collins Jr. in 1983, Collins dies not long after in an apparent suicide. But the ickiness doesn’t end […]

It wasn’t necessarily the kind of entertainment we were looking for from a promising junior welterweight doubleheader, but the way both fights ended wasn’t exactly a bore, huh? Nate Campbell got jobbed, frankly, when what should have been a no decision because of a head butt ended as a 3rd round TKO loss against Timothy […]

Friday night was a bad night to be the boxer everyone was supposed to be paying attention to, both on Showtime and ESPN2. Junior lightweight prospect Marvin Quintero got stopped by would-be journeyman Tyrone Harris in the 8th in the ShoBox main event. Fun fight. The problem with Quintero isn’t that he doesn’t box enough, […]

I’m reading the book “More Information Than You Require” right now, which is fitting because that’s what this edition of Quick Jabs is (and every edition, for that matter). That includes the items in the headline, as well as the troublesome noise hinting that Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto may not happen (?); how one of this […]