I told you I was all about this weekend’s Showtime junior welterweight doubleheader. So here’s some more stuff. Above, a commercial for Timothy Bradley-Nate Campbell. After the jump, more videos spotlighting both dudes. Media picks for the Bradley-Campbell bout, a list including yours truly. I’m a little surprised by how overwhelmingly Bradley came out ahead. […]

This is the post I’d written but decided not to run — then I saw that Michael Woods, a writer whose work I admire very much, made some similar points in his own piece on the subject. If he’s put it out there, no reason for me not to put in my own thoughts. He […]

There are four, count ’em, four televised fight cards this week, plus one boxing doc’s debut. The biggest of the bunch is on Showtime Saturday, but we already covered the junior welterweight double-header featuring Timothy Bradley-Nate Campbell and Devon Alexander-Junior Witter. Normally I’d just hit the rest of the weekend’s fights in the Friday Quick […]

For the last month and a half of boxing, the pattern has gone desert/oasis/desert/oasis, and that’s going to continue until mid-September. Fortunately, though, Saturday on Showtime we’re getting the next little slice of oasis. Four top junior welterweights — two young and hungry, two veteran and crafty — are going to bring some much-needed relief […]

On Friday, Antonio Tarver will become the latest pro boxer to take a turn behind the mic when he joins the commentating team for Showtime’s ShoBox card. Tarver, still a top light heavyweight despite back-to-back losses, isn’t retiring; it’s just a guest announcing gig. I suspect, actually, he’ll do a good job. He’s a great […]

When Miguel Cotto fights Manny Pacquiao Nov. 14, Cotto’s welterweight alphabet title belt won’t be up for grabs, Cotto has decided. If it sticks, the move will spoil Pacquiao’s question for an unprecedented seventh title in a seventh division (sort of — I’ll explain at the end). But no matter. Whether Pacquiao wins another WBO, […]

There are many things besides those mentioned in the headline in this edition of Quick Jabs — like the dreamy Edwin Valero-Humberto Soto fight that may be on the Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto undercard, notes on this weekend’s fights and a good deal more — but we start with Juan Manuel Marquez. Although his Sept. 19 […]

The first time David Haye agreed to fight one of the Klitschko brothers, he came up lame the way a horse would — he pulled out of the June date with Wladimir citing an injury. The second time Haye agreed to fight one of the Klitschko brothers and pulled out, he came up lame like […]

In 2005, Tomasz Adamek was in one of the best fights of the year. Same in 2006. And in 2008. He’s not just an action hero — he’s good, too. He’s one of the 20 best fighters in the world and he’s the cruiserweight champion. And he has a real fan base, selling out fights […]

The always reliable Steve Kim sheds new light today on the mysterious, vague news that boxing promoters were going to form a trade association, about which my initial reaction was to feel creeped out like when things suddenly got quiet in the movie The Birds. As it turns out, maybe it’s not so foreboding a […]

It’s weekend reviewin’ time. Lots happened between Friday and Monday, with the biggest news — about the official nature of Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto — coming Monday (the subject of a separate post). So we’ll throw “Monday” into the liberal definition of the word “weekend” here. For starters, the knockout above is as meaningless as knockouts […]

(Miguel Cotto, left, Manny Pacquiao, right; photoshop via www.boxingrepublic.com) The headline says it all. It’s official, according to a news release from Top Rank Promotions: On Nov. 14, pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao will fight Miguel Cotto, one of the other 10 best fighters around in all of boxing, in what could be the year’s biggest […]

In a brilliant display of speed, stamina, defense, controlled boxing and movement, England’s Amir Khan Saturday totally outclassed a very good and difficult junior welterweight titlist, Andreas Kotelnik, fully rebounding from a devastating knockout loss last year to score the best win of his young career. Will the harshest Khan critics shut up now? They […]

It’s slow-going this weekend for boxing on the teevee, kids, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a lot going on for a Quick Jabs column. For starters, get a load of bantamweight Hozumi Hasegawa this week scoring yet another 1st round knockout over yet another quality contender, just above. Hasegawa figures into another spot […]

When Amir Khan-Andreas Kotelnik was made, plenty of people, myself included, thought it another case of clever matchmaking for the rebounding, superstar-in-the-making Khan. Kotelnik was, by universal consensus, the weakest of the junior welterweight titleholders, nor was he much of a puncher, the latter being a vital aspect of the choice given Khan’s disastrous one-round […]