The L.A. Times has a piece up about the California Department of Justice lab results on the foreign substance in the hand wraps Antonio Margarito was going to wear for his January welterweight fight with Shane Mosley. It is bad, bad news for Margarito, and for the sport, considering Margarito’s standing as one of the […]

How’s this for a coincidence (sarcasm alert!): Six straight opponents of the heavyweight brothers Klitschko have been accused, by some critics or nearly everyone, of not trying very hard to win, of not taking advantage of openings, or just generally acting like they were disinterested in being there. For Wladimir, those opponents were, in reverse […]

Finally. Finally. Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik and his #1 challenger, Arthur Abraham, have agreed to fight in the fall, Pavlik promoter Bob Arum told Ring. If you’re a real boxing fan, odds are excellent that you’ve wanted to see this fight for a year or more. I’ve craved it.These are two of the hardest punchers […]

It seems like every week these days I’m putting up some Fight of the Year or Knockout of the Year candidate, and this week’s clip comes all the way from Ireland Saturday night. Six knockdowns. Three cuts. Swings in momentum. Both men somehow fighting through tremendous punishment. More than 9,000 screaming, chanting fans. A dramatic […]

It’s not Vitali Klitschko’s fault that he’s as good as he is and the division he’s in is as bad as it is. The most complete package at heavyweight barely worked up a sweat Saturday demolishing a fellow top-10 heavy, Juan Carlos Gomez, with the only trouble he endured being a couple decent lefts and […]

It kind of defeats the point to have a somewhat significant heavyweight fight on a major free cable network if said major free cable network doesn’t really tell anyone it’s happening. That’s especially true if it’s counter-programming against the (justifiable) ratings giant that is the NCAA tournament. And it’s even less fulfilling if the thing […]

Most Valuable Network owner Evan Brunell may be a Red Sox man by blog trade, but he’s got a real appreciation of the sweet science. On Thursday evening, he checked out a locally-oriented card in Worcester, Mass., the highlight of which was the headlining bout featuring a prospect with a little sizzle named Edwin Rodriguez, […]

The talk of Floyd Mayweather, Jr.’s return to boxing has advanced beyond wisps of hints of rumors, although a pair of recent stories from trustworthy reporters seemingly contradict one another. On any given day, I think, “Who needs him? He was a pain in the ass, and Manny Pacquiao’s a more exciting pound-for-pound king anyhow.” […]

Here’s the trailer for the “Tyson” documentary, if you haven’t seen it yet. For the same reason as yesterday’s post, there are aspects of the film that I’m not looking forward to: Namely, everyone who writes about the damn thing will say, erroneously, “Boxing is dead. Remember when it was alive?” But unlike with all […]

I’ve hardly said a word about this weekend’s Roy Jones Jr. “March Badness” pay-per-view card that combines boxing and mixed martial arts bouts, because Jones isn’t terribly relevant to the sport right now, and because the boxing-oriented fights on the card aren’t very good, and from what I understand, the MMA-oriented fights on the card […]

In various boxing forums, there’s a neat video circulating from Saturday night of Frank Warren, lightweight Amir Khan’s promoter, clearly signaling in the 5th round to the referee something about the deep cut in Marco Antonio Barrera’s head. Moments later, the ref stopped the fight; if he had done it a round earlier, it would […]

You have to love fights like this when both guys decide they are NOT going to duck, and transparently think to themselves, “Screw it, all I care about tonight is dealing out pain.” It was the wrong fight for the better boxer, Cesar Canchila, and the junior flyweight paid for it when Giovanni Segura scored […]

Back in September, when talented lightweight Amir Khan got blown out in the 1st round, there were a lot of voices who were convinced Khan was not meant for better things, that he was hopeless and had been — you guessed it — “exposed.” Not I. Yes, I said, his chin is problematic, but he’s […]

Kudos to Philippines junior bantamweight prospect Joseph Von Minoza. He clearly was looking for some attention with that hairstyle, and he’s got full buy-in from me. Takin’ this picture to my hairdresser tomorrow…

I have no idea which Lucian Bute Showtime’s Steve Farhood and Nick Charles were talking about — Bute is a big puncher. He had 18 knockouts in 23 wins before Friday night. But they just kept calling the super middleweight titlist a “pure boxer,” over and over again. After a spectacular performance that culminated in […]