I wrote here about a weird fight a month ago where one fighter kissed the other mid-bout, but it was a minor, off-TV (ahem) affair. HBO, unbeknownst to me, taped it and then posted the clip on YouTube a couple days ago, which I learned of via BoxingScene.com. You can see it above. The commentary […]

The economic woes of today’s modern world continue to weaken our beloved sport of boxing.  The latest victim of our nations financial trouble is Telefutura’s acclaimed boxing program, Solo Boxeo.  The weekly boxing show, which aired every Friday, had quickly became a staple in many fight fans weekly fix for the sweet science, showcasing some […]

It’s a shame that a headline like this, from BoxingScene.com, would even be necessary: “America, Roy Jones, Finally See Best Of Joe Calzaghe.” And yet, prior to Saturday’s drubbing of Jones, Calzaghe was a virtual unknown in the United States. SportsCenter, in previewing the fight, gave a little list of facts about Calzaghe’s career; Jones […]

Arthur Abraham completely overwhelmed Raul Marquez Saturday, employing the vaunted “vastly superior in every measurable physical trait that matters in boxing” method to score a technical knockout win in a defense of his middleweight (160 lbs.) title belt.

Outrage #1: Vitali Klitschko just can’t BELIEVE that the WBC would be insisting he defend his new heavyweight title as they wish against Juan Carlos Gomez. That, despite what the WBC said here, according to Fightnews.com: “Vitali Klitschko recently regained the title he never lost in the ring by vanquishing reigning champion Samuel Peter. As […]

Also in this edition of Quick Jabs: HBO makes an overdue foray into selling younger fighters; Marco Antonio Barrera returns; and Israel Vazquez simultaneously awes and worries me.

Steve Kim’s an excellent and pugnacious boxing writer for Maxboxing.com, and I usually agree with him in whole. His latest column offers many “amen” moments, but it offers a few points I take issue with as well. I’ll excerpt the column and respond to it piece by piece. To read the entire column, go here.

Folks, I’m not going to lie, I have VERY little interest in this Saturday night’s PPV battle between Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jr.  In fact I can think of roughly 300 things I would rather spend my hard earned $50 on.  One such attractive alternative would be to pay a homeless man to rip […]

And you thought the elections were over. Nope. The award for Fighter of the Year is wide open. Last year wasn’t easy either, and it really came down to Miguel Cotto, Kelly Pavlik and Floyd Mayweather. All were defensible, excellent choices. This year, though, even those with the strongest candidates, there’s cause for doubt about […]

Boxing and politics have overlapped at times this year, so on Election Day, here are some links to ponder: TheSweetScience.com asks, “Could boxing fans push the election to McCain?” That’s because Republican John McCain has, in the U.S. Senate, tried to overhaul boxing regulations, per this in-depth story by my old day job colleague Amol […]

I dub this past weekend “The Weekend of the Crab,” in honor of crab fightalike Vic Darchinyan, who delivered the fight of his life in his smash-up of fellow junior bantamweight (115 lbs.) Cristian Mijares. I’ve got some leftover thoughts on The Weekend of the Crab I’d like to share, a few of which have […]

There have been too many developments lately — most recently, Vic Darchinyan’s big win — for me to not have refreshed by now my list of the best boxers in the sport regardless of weight. Nor have I been keeping up with the minor updates I sometimes provide immediately after key fights. I’ll do a […]

Former IBF lightweight titlist Julio Diaz looked sharp in weathering the hard charges of Fernando Trejo.  It wasn’t an overly awe inspiring performance by the Coachella fighter but never the less, it provided a good litmus test on where Diaz is following his TKO loss to Juan Diaz last year.  While not completely sold on […]

I’d like to eat most of my words, please. I thought Vic Darchinyan would get totally outclassed by highly-regarded fellow junior bantamweight (115 lbs.) Cristian Mijares Saturday night, and that Darchinyan would get knocked out. Instead, the result was completely, 100 percent diametricaly opposite of that. Darchinyan may have won every round en route to […]

The headline’s a joke. Every episode of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” is very special. Maybe I’m scraping the bottom of the “boxing in pop culture barrel” here, but honestly, I think it’s a good thing that Sunday night, Oscar De La Hoya will guest star in a show on one of the major networks, ABC. […]