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Vazquez-Marquez III: What Boxing Is For

Just superb. If you love boxing, or even if you don’t, Saturday night showed why the sport, for all its flaws, is capable of providing entertainment that is incomparable. It’s almost too bad, in a way, that junior featherweights (122 lbs.) Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez waged such a thrilling war in MARCH, because how […]

Vazquez-Marquez III Delivers The Drama

I will have more to say at some point, likely tomorrow, but I have three quick, simple thoughts about Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez III. It was breath-taking, and it deserves more words than I can give on short notice. It deserves words from Homer or somebody, frankly. 1.  This was better than the first two, or, […]

Guerrero-Litzau Starts Slow, Heats Up

When featherweights (126 lbs.) Robert Guerrero and Jason Litzau stood face to face before the opening bell, I glanced at Guerrero, who looked ticked off, and then at Litzau. “Wow. Litzau looks freaked out or something,” I thought. The Showtime’s commentators noted much the same. And for several rounds, Litzau fought like someone who was […]

Guerrero-Litzau: Featherweight Fisticuffs

Lost in the immense shadow of this Saturday’s mega-fight, the highly anticipated rubber-match between junior featherweights Israel Vasquez and Rafael Marquez, is an intriguing matchup of two explosive fighters a mere four pounds north of the aforementioned duo. This Friday night Showtime will kick off what promises to be a great weekend of fights with […]

Conclusion To A Classic: Vazquez-Marquez III Preview, Prediction

The last time Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez stepped into the ring with one another, they fathered a masterpiece. It had everything every boxing fan could ever want. Bravery. Skill. Power-punching. Wild swings of drama. Action. Especially, action. Historic levels, in fact: Their July rematch of their initial March meeting was almost unanimously considered the […]

Punch Drunk Ramblings – The Midweek Flurry

Your face still stinging from Tim’s Quick Jabs?  No worries my friend, have a pint with me and let’s all get Punch Drunk! Mayweather at Wrestlemania – A Good Move? As Tim touched on in his Quick Jabs post, welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather is reportedly set to make $20 million dollars for his participation in WWE’s upcoming […]

Quick Jabs: Boxing Heals All Wounds, The Tyson Movie And More

Please find some early week “Quick Jabs” below to get out of the way before focusing entirely on Saturday night’s stellar donnybrook, including the debut of yet another new feature to go along with all the other gimmicks. If you’re not keeping track, “Quick Jabs” is my feature for a buncha random thoughts on random […]

The Lost Opportunity of Wladimir Klitschko

First of all I want to take the time to praise the work of my colleague Tim as his exceptional coverage of the Klitschko-Ibragimov battle was top notch entertainment.  I must admit that I am still miffed at how such a fight with so much promise failed miserably to produce anything in the way of […]

Last Weekend, This Weekend, Next Weekend: Pavlik-Taylor II And Klitschko-Ibragimov In Review, Palate-Cleansing Vazquez-Marquez III Ahead

Quick and dirty… I finally caught last Saturday’s Kelly Pavlik-Jermain Taylor II on replay, so I thought I’d share some brief thoughts on it; then suppress my gag reflex and tie up loose ends on Vladimir Klistchko-Sultan Ibragimov from last night; and finally remind everyone that, no matter popular perception after the heavyweights stank up […]

Heavyweight Unification News Conference And Afterthoughts

NEW YORK CITY — Both sides blamed the other for Vladimir Klitschko-Sultan Ibragimov turning into a terrible fight. But they were “unified” on the fact that it was terrible. That and other thoughts from the news conference, where there was some actual news — John Duddy-Kelly Pavlik is off — and I had a brief […]

Klitschko-Ibragimov: What. A. Disaster.

NEW YORK CITY — For almost every second of 12 straight rounds, Vladimir Klitschko looked like he was single-handedly trying to ruin boxing by throwing no punch other than a jab. Or maybe he’s an obsessive-compulsive. Or maybe he’s a performance artist who wanted to prove a point about the beauty of only winning a […]

John Duddy Scores A Difficult Win After Some Early Deep Trouble

NEW YORK CITY — For three amazingly dramatic rock ’em sock ’em rounds, Walid Smichet was on the verge of, as I said he had a chance to, upsetting the John Duddy apple cart. He was just flat bombing Duddy out of the place as Duddy tried to out-slug him. But then, Duddy discovered some […]

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