You might note the addition, starting today, of some new advertising on the site — as of now, some Google ads inserted into and between the individual blog entries, and some text link ads, too. There could be more new ads to come, albeit of a different variety. I’ve been working on doing this for […]

Hello, all. We’ve got a busy week ahead here at The Queensberry Rules with pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao trying to take the junior welterweight championship away from Ricky Hatton Saturday night on HBO pay-per-view. One might say it’ll be a volcanic week, with the quantity of material to be spewed forth and with the subject […]

On HBO Saturday night, junior featherweight Juan Manuel Lopez won the most remarkable one-sided fight I’ve ever seen. Lopez was truly awesome. And yet somehow he was overshadowed by Gerry Penalosa, who withstood ungodly amounts of punishment and never quit before his corner wisely threw in the towel. I was emotional when it was stopped. […]

If junior middleweight Cory Spinks got a close decision win I disagreed with over Deandre Latimore on Showtime Friday night, I can’t begrudge him too much. He’s now been in three straight close decisions. He lost the first two, against Jermain Taylor and Verno Phillips. And Spinks had to gut this one out to win […]

(Deandre Latimore works the pads; photo credit: Bob Barton) Deandre Latimore, above, could be the junior middleweight to rid us of Cory Spinks once and for all. He gets his chance tonight on a Showtime card out of St. Louis that also features nice junior welterweight prospect Devon Alexander, which I’ll preview momentarily. Also discussed […]

As before, I participated in Showtime’s poll of boxing writers for one of their upcoming fights, even though I’m 0-3 when I do so and it’s clearly cursed my prediction record. The entire results of the poll — this time on the super middleweight bout between Carl Froch and Jermain Taylor — are after the […]

Every time I produce a pound-for-pound list — that is, an accounting of the best fighters in the world, regardless of size — it prompts a heated debate about my placement of some boxer or the other. That’s not a bad thing. It’s kind of the point. I’m trying to be a tastemaker of sorts […]

An abundance of flaws — a bounty, a horn of plenty, a bumper crop — will be on display Saturday night on Showtime when Jermain Taylor fights Carl Froch, and I could care less. I quote myself once again: “Flaws are overrated.” In their last two fights, despite their multitudinous flaws, Froch and Taylor demonstrated […]

It was a real KOTY nominee kind of weekend, weren’t it? Walid Smichet, meet super middleweight “Contender” grad Peter Manfredo’s left hook. Peter Manfredo? Really? (h/t BLH)

If you don’t know JuanMa yet, where you been? Young Juan Manuel Lopez, a Puerto Rican junior featherweight with stardom written all over him, has a magnificent skill set and three consecutive 1st round knockouts. One was against a 1st round KO artist himself, Daniel Ponce De Leon, that was a real eye-opener, like the […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb6zciD3WFo&hl=en&fs=1 We’ve covered it plenty in the post here, so little further elaboration is necessary. But if you didn’t see junior flyweight Brian Viloria’s knockout of Ulises Solis, just go to about 2:46 and feast your eyes on that sucker. Never before will you have so feared a 108-pound man.

No home cooking was necessary for the two Filipinos who headlined the Top Rank Manila boxing card, flyweight Nonito Donaire and junior flyweight Brian Viloria. Their fists made the scorecards useless. Donaire, a top-20 pound-for-pound player, put on a pure power-punching exhibition to decimate Raul Martinez by knockout in the 4th, and Viloria scored a […]

YURIORKIS GAMBOA! Yeah, part of the fun is just saying his name out loud, I admit it. The other part is that the featherweight is one of the most exciting performers in the sport these days. His awkward and defensively-astute opponent Friday night on Showtime, Jose Rojas, wouldn’t let Gamboa unleash the full excitement of […]

Besides the preview of tonight’s Showtime card featuring YURIORKIS GAMBOA. (capitalization/punctuation subject to change depending upon how I feel about “my son/love child” at any given moment), and the other stuff in the headline, this edition of Quick Jabs features this stuff: the latest on Floyd Mayweather, Jr.-Juan Manuel Marquez; the latest on Manny Pacquiao-Ricky […]

Ohmygodohmygod I want one. It’ll be handed out to select fans when Manny Pacquiao throws out the first pitch at a San Francisco Giants game on April 21 for “Filipino Heritage Night.” (h/t Fred Sternburg) Bonus quality promotional hijinks: After the jump, a humorous exchange of words between Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach and Floyd Mayweather, […]