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In An Insane Fight, Marcos Maidana Derails The Victor Ortiz Star Train

What a stunning fight, and a stunning outcome, with a stunning aftermath. In a junior welterweight fight Saturday on HBO, Marcos Maidana stopped Victor Ortiz in a fight that had two crazy first rounds, a strange ending and a bizarre interview after with Ortiz. Ortiz’ superstar rise is definitely well off the tracks now, and […]

Quick Jabs: Mayweather-Marquez Rescheduled, Pacquiao-Cotto Close; Darchinyan’s Latest Funny Trash Talk; Other Weekend Bouts; Fights In The Works; More

That right there is Mahir Oral, who’s fighting top middleweight Arthur Abraham on a fight to be broadcast on tape delay from Germany via Showtime. Besides the more compelling junior welterweight Victor Ortiz-Marcos Maidana bout on HBO, it’s the top freeish weekend broadcast. There’s also the pay-per-view headlined by junior featherweight Juan Manuel Lopez, whose […]

Olivier Lontchi May Moonwalk To Defeat Against Juan Manuel Lopez

Tomorrow night, Olivier Lontchi (left) is the sacrificial lamb for Juan Manuel Lopez (right), a junior featherweight star with greatness written all over him. Lontchi, an unknown Canadian, at least is going to make things interesting. According to a news release the event’s promoter just sent out that was titled “Lontchi May Moonwalk Ring Entrance?”: […]

Getting Sick Of This “I Didn’t Prepare For A Left-Hander/Right-Hander” Junk (Looking At You, Rocky Juarez And Nicolay Valuev) [Updated]

Twice in the last month, a boxer has pulled out of a fight with a health issue, and a substitute has been offered so the show can go on. Twice, the healthy fighter has rejected the substitute, claiming he wasn’t prepared for the substitute’s stance. His stance. Heavyweight Nicolay Valuev had been preparing for a […]

In His Best Performance Against His Best Opponent, Wladimir Klitschko Becomes Heavyweight Champion Of The World

Saturday on ESPN Classic, Wladimir Klitschko became the Ring magazine heavyweight champion of the world — the most legitimate of the many belts that litter boxing — by stopping his best opponent, Ruslan Chagaev, in what was his best performance to date. Love or hate Klitschko and his methodical, clinical but dominant style, he’s apparently […]

Quick Jabs: Manny Steward Flirts With Miguel Cotto; Building Boxing Fans, One Fight At A Time; Other Weekend Bouts; Fights In The Works; More

Welcome to the weekly Quick Jabs column. Besides the topics in the headline, we’ve got some “tsk tsking” for scurrilous reports about Kelly Pavlik, among other remarks I’d file under “belt/ranking/media commentary;” a closer look at Floyd Mayweather, Jr.’s double-talk; boxing on the Internets; and more. (Thanks to everyone for their best wishes today, by […]

Tres Bien!: Adrian Diaconu – Jean Pascal Preview And Prediction

If the Versus channel hadn’t come to our rescue and brought us the all-Quebec light heavyweight fight between Jean Pascal and Adrian Diaconu Friday night, I might be saying “zut alors!” Instead, we get to watch a tres bien match-up that’s on track to sell 22,000 tickets north of the border, where boxing is hot […]

Wladimir Klitschko – Ruslan Chagaev Preview And Prediction: Ennui, With Substance

Saturday is the moment we’ve been waiting for. It’s when Wladimir Klitschko — spurred by the most meaningful fight of his life, where he can undisputedly proclaim himself the division’s true champion if he wins — finally dispenses with the bumper bowling, finally ditches the water wings, finally jumps without a net and behaves like […]

Ten Must-See Unsigned Boxing Rematches

(Above: Would Lucian Bute [right] Librado Andrade [left] II resemble the original?) Sequels are on the mind lately, and not because “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” and its 44 percent “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes is still one of the top movies in the land. There were two fights over the weekend […]

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