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On Versus, Cristobal Cruz Wins A Title Belt In His 50th Fight

Cristobal Cruz! Just a couple months ago, I wrote that he was a television-friendly fighter who may never win a title. Scratch ‘im off the list! Nice to see a guy like that make good. Versus Network broadcast a card Wednesday night that featured a title fight and the debut of a hot prospect fresh […]

Manny Pacquiao = Lindsay Lohan?

Manny Pacquiao’s got weight issues. Or, at least, his trainer Freddie Roach does. The way Pacquiao and his team have been talking about his poundage in advance of his Dec. 6 welterweight (147 lbs.) bout with Oscar De La Hoya is wildly inconsistent, as if his own waistline was as unpredictable as Lindsay Lohan’s or […]

Irrational Pessimism Rears Its Head Following Hopkins-Pavlik

Alan Greenspan, famous for warning against “irrational exuberance,” helps me warn against a similar phenomenon. IT’S EASY SOMETIMES in this sport of ours to watch two men duke it out and, based on the outcome of that one span of combat between the duo, come to some rather hyperbolic conclusions about each warrior’s fundamental merits. […]

Absorbing Hopkins’ Historic Win And What It Means For Pavlik’s Future

It’s really still just soaking in, the enormity of what ol’ Bernard Hopkins did Saturday night to lil’ Kelly Pavlik. Hopkins, 43, was 17 years older than Pavlik. Seventeen. Years. Older. And he looked old, too, in his most recent fight in April. Stranger still, Hopkins, who usually fights like a snail, threw more punches […]

Hopkins Dominates Pavlik, Cementing His Greatness

I’ll have more to say later, but for now, I say this: I have never had as much respect for Bernard Hopkins as I did tonight. I have never been so entertained to see a fighter I love — Kelly Pavlik — beaten so soundly by a fighter I dislike. This was an historic win […]

Welcome To The Queensberry Rules, Formerly Known As Ring Report

Welcome to our new site. We were Ring Report — a rather generic name Sean and I inherited when we came aboard MVN — and now we are The Queensberry Rules — a rather esoteric name, but one that sounds cooler, at least to our ears. Like a lot of MVN sites, we’ve undergone a […]

Ewww… Vitali Klitschko Employed His Kid’s Used Diapers As First Aid

Vitali Klitschko’s hands got so swollen from hitting Sam Peter at will this weekend in a heavyweight title-winning effort that he had to resort to… baby urine. “Baby wee is good because it’s pure, doesn’t contain toxins and doesn’t smell,” the 37-year old boxer told Bild after he won back the WBC title with a […]

For Dawson-Tarver And Klitschko-Peter, Differing Fortunes In The Credit Market

Zoom around the boxing news/commentary sites and for the two winners in Saturday night’s double-header, you’ll find raves that border on the hyperbolic as well as surprising disses. For the two losers, you’ll find generous souls extending the benefit of the doubt alongside dismissals of their entire careers. So, in light of this, in the […]

Klitschko, Dawson Dominate In Fights Expected To Be Toss-Ups

Heading into tonight, we had two fighters — Antonio Tarver and Vitali Klitschko — whose age made them, rather than familiar and consistent rocks of the sport, unknown quantities. In the end, one of the two came up roses. The other fell to the fresher, younger fighter. I commend you to Sean’s take on the […]

How Could I Be So Wrong?!

Going into Saturday nights heavyweight fight between Sam Peter and Vitali Klitschko, I was confident, I repeat, confident that Peter would be too much for the un-retired Klitschko.¬† Boy was I wrong.¬† In what could be described as a virtuoso performance by Klitschko as he beat down Peter in such a one-side way that Peter […]

Preview & Predicition: Sam Peter – Vitali Klitschko

I‚Äôm going to have to agree with Thomas Gerbasi over at Maxboxing, WBC heavyweight title holder Samuel ‚ÄúThe Nigerian Nightmare‚Äù Peter must be seething heading into his title defense against former owner of the green belt, Vitali Klitschko Saturday night in Germany.¬† The usually stoic Peter was visibly agitated at Klitschko, and the promoters of […]

The Reclamation, Or The Coronation: Tarver-Dawson Preview, Prediction

This, ladies and gentleman, is how you talk trash. Antonio Tarver and Chad Dawson have been jawing at one another hilariously in advance of their potentially very good light heavyweight (175 lbs.) fight with plenty of storylines — most notably, that of the older, bigger figure Tarver trying to claw his way back to the […]

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