(Herby Whyne for sportzframe) There are your combatants for the evening: Ring #2-ranked super middleweight Lucian Bute on the right and tough fringe contender Fulgencio Zuniga, scheduled to go on Shobox. More on those two men “tk,” as we say in the publishing industry, in what will be a very special TRI-VIDEO edition of Quick […]

Along comes a fight this weekend that on the surface, couldn’t be a weirder fight for either man. They’re all wrong for each other. And I’m totally looking forward to it. It’s like alchemy or something — it should be lead, but instead it’s gold. In the affordably-priced, $24.95 pay-per-view headliner out of Great Britain, […]

It has the sound of a trial balloon, but Robert Morales reports that Top Rank boss Bob Arum has reached an agreement with Sergio Mora’s team for a fight with middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik in June or July. And what of Pavlik’s team? Arum, who promotes Pavlik, said that he still has to meet with […]

I write pieces every now and then for The Sweet Science, a very good boxing website, and they recently published another work of mine: “TSS’ Top 9 Unjustly Unloved“ Stop by and check it out. Some of it actually sprung from some recent discussions we’ve had here, about Juan Manuel Marquez, Glen Johnson, Nonito Donaire […]

There are three notable televised boxing cards ahead this weekend — Lucian Bute-Fulgencio Zuniga at super middleweight on Shobox, the pay-per-view card headlined by lightweights Amir Khan and Marco Antonio Barrera, and Cesar Canchila-Giovani Segura II at junior flyweight on Azteca America — but there’s a little bit of unfinished business to attend to from […]

If you were paying attention to the HBO triple-header Saturday night, you may have missed a showy close to the card on Azteca America. Fortunately for us, Willfrank was on the watch, flipping channels to catch junior welterweight prospect Mike Alvarado scoring the gigantic last-five-seconds knockout of Emmanuel Clottey, and he even tracked down the […]

In huge step-up fights Saturday night on HBO, junior welterweight prospect Victor Ortiz and junior middleweight prospect James Kirkland took the wrecking ball to opponents who were meant to provide stiff tests. Mike Arnaoutis and Joel Julio came tumbling down in the 2nd and 6th, respectively, and now Ortiz and Kirkland are now fully graduated […]

Promoter Frank Warren called it the best heavyweight fight he’d seen in past 15 years. I don’t know about that, but the highlights of Martin Rogan against Matt Skelton last weekend in the U.K. sure are nice. Good upset and back story, too. (h/t BLH)

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I always root for the gravely injured boxer to get better, as I did for welterweight Oscar Diaz, who collapsed during a July appearance on ESPN2′s Friday Night Fights and went into a coma. But I also root — if not in the same proportion — for the boxer who did the damage, in this […]

James Kirkland, left; Joel Julio, right. (Photo splice taken from myboxingnework.com) Nothing like a good fight to turn one bullish on The State Of Boxing Today. What spate of fight cancellations? I don’t remember them. And there’s nothing like the potential of back-to-back Fight of the Year candidates on consecutive weekends to transform Wednesday, when […]

To say fans of pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao have had a love-hate relationship with me is an understatement. They’ve called me the greatest boxing writer of all time and they’ve called me a baby killer. I frequently engage them in arguments in the comments sections of this blog, but over time, I’ve found I have […]

We’re back with our second open thread. Because the first one went as well as it did, I figure we’ll go once a month, around the first of each month. I want to encourage freewheeling discussion. People should feel free to bring up whatever they want, and everyone should feel free to respond. But just […]

There has been a fair amount of moving and shaking in early 2009 amid The Queensberry Rules’ pound-for-pound rankings, but I haven’t posted a full update since December. There was Shane Mosley-Antonio Margarito and its subsequent fallout. And Vic Darchinyan-Jorge Arce. And Tomasz Adamek-Johnathon Banks. Also, Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez reaching the one year […]

Maybe you like your “chasing the white whale”-style quotes to come from the original Moby Dick. I’m no Trekkie, but that Wrath of Khan is a good flick. Either way, the “hell’s heart” quote is appropriate for lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez: He will chase rival Manny Pacquiao, the only man who can stake a […]