It’s ironic that Floyd Mayweather, Jr. may be the most recognizable name among boxers today to people who don’t follow the sport closely — he’s the kind of boxer whose name is likely to draw a casual fan to my apartment for a boxing night party — and he’s the epitome of all the reasons […]

(From left to right: Carl Froch, Mikkel Kessler, Andre Dirrell, Jermain Taylor; Not pictured, Andre Ward. Tom Casino/Showtime) On a day when I ought to be mighty happy that Showtime is putting together a boxing event of such audaciousness it’s hard to believe we ever got to the news conference announcing it, all I can […]

You know what probably wouldn’t feel very good? Seventeen unanswered punches from cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek. I’m just guessing, though. Bobby Gunn apparently wanted a few more laser-guided bricks to the face, so maybe I’m wrong. He may have been overmatched, but you can’t say he wasn’t a hard-ass. The fight was stopped, wisely, against […]

Joseph Agbeko came out on the winning end of a wild, dirty brawl, spoiling Vic Darchinyan’s move up to bantamweight on Showtime Saturday night. Darchinyan fought the totally wrong fight for the first six rounds, swinging wildly rather than being precise, i.e., reverting to the “old” version of himself, and after, he acknowledged his “bad […]

The circumstances are mysterious, but numerous news outlets have now reported the sad, sad news that Arturo Gatti, one of the most exciting fighters of all time, is dead at 37. His body was found in Brazil. Gatti, who fought from featherweight to welterweight between 1991 and 2007, wasn’t an all-time great like Alexis Arguello, […]

As it turns out, I was right when I said the light heavyweight Friday Night Fights undercard bout between Chris Henry and Shaun George would steal the show from the main event. But I didn’t realize it would be because Henry-George would be so goddam weird, and because the main event, between cruiserweights Matt Godfrey […]

As good as this weekend looks, it is the unlikely, daring, exciting super middleweight tournament that now looks for real that has me daydreaming about what’ll happen between now and 2011. That, of course, is the major subject of this week’s news roundup, but we’ve got a good deal more on the plate than some […]

This July is a wasteland for boxing, with only one weekend bringing a seriously sure-fire awesome fight, that being Saturday’s bantamweight bout between Vic Darchinyan and Joseph Agbeko. So naturally, that’s the weekend that gets jammed up with way too many noteworthy bouts. Sigh. Granted, July 18 was originally supposed to be one of the […]

Many of you hate Vic Darchinyan because he’s a total prick. But I can’t get enough of the bastard. He cracks me up, plus his words and deeds reveal the spirit of a true fighter. He managed to work in shades of both in this anecdote from an Eric Raskin column where he interviewed the […]

If you didn’t get a chance to see it over the July 4 weekend in Germany, you can watch the video of American heavyweight Eddie Chambers’ dominant win over Alexander Dimitrenko above and in the other six parts after the jump. Happy birthday America! Here are a few of my thoughts on it: As I’ve […]

Greetings. Welcome to the open thread, where any discussion topics, preferably but not necessarily ones with a boxing focus, are yours for the taking. (h/t Steve for reminding me, and my apologies for not doing it closer to the first of the month.) A few quick agenda items:1. It strikes me that the biggest topic […]

All right. I don’t know why it ruined my XBox 360 to put Fight Night Round 4 in it, but somehow that did the trick. I had to buy a new one (or pay $179 to fix it compared to $199 for a new one) and that’s what I’ve done. So now I’m ready to […]

It’s slow going in boxing this week, and with but one major exception and a couple minor ones, it’s slow going in boxing this month. Still, there are a few things to discuss. For instance: Eddie Chambers, at right (photo credit Jan Sanders, Goossen Tutor Promotions) put together by what all accounts was an impressive […]

Having a distaste for conspiracy theories the way I do, I bit my tongue yesterday — despite my doubts — about the official explanation given that boxing great Alexis Arguello’s demise was, apparently, a suicide. But some very, very level-headed people today are openly questioning that explanation today, wondering whether he was killed, and I […]

It was a fight Alexis Arguello lost, his tremendous 1982 Fight of the Decade with Aaron Pryor, where I first laid eyes on the man, and it was that fight that turned me into a fan. Past his prime and over his ideal weight, the boxer who was arguably the finest junior lightweight ever went […]