NEW YORK CITY — Madison Square Garden won’t open its doors for a little while, so how about some quick “Quick Jabs?”

NEW YORK CITY — As promised, I’ll be filing tidbits from the scene in and around Madison Square Garden in advance of, and during, the big heavyweight fight between Vladimir Klitschko and Sultan Ibragimov for a couple of title belts. Off we go:

NEW YORK CITY — It won’t air on HBO, but Saturday night’s heavyweight unification fight has an undercard worth noting. It’s been the focus of the media events here today. It is, as you might guess from the lengthy title of this blog entry, pretty middleweight-centric. There aren’t any world-class match-ups, but there are highly-touted […]

Some fights are more important than whether they’re any good or not. It’s like when you’re a kid and your parents tell you to eat some vegetable that you’ve never tried and are scared to — eating it is the right thing to do, and if it’s delicious, well, that’s bonus. Bernard Hopkins-Joe Calzaghe, in […]

Pound-for-pound lists are a lot like Britney Spears, flashy and attention grabbing but lacking of any real substance.  Of course that does little to stop my need to share my own subjective list of boxing’s current best.  My renown colleague Tim did an excellent job on sharing his pound-for-pound list and while we share similar taste […]

So here is boxing, finally setting about the business of fixing something that all of its critics have always said is one of the major reasons the sport has faded — its muddled heavyweight division — and the stories in major newspapers this morning say, in effect: Boxing Dead Because Of Muddled Heavyweight Division That’s […]

We’re in the season where change is afoot on everyone’s list of the best active fighters, weight differences aside. So here at Ring Report, the idea is to throw out the first stab at it now that a fight has transpired in 2008 that shook things up — Saturday’s rematch between Kelly Pavlik and Jermain […]

Back from vacation, but I’m about to leave again momentarily. I’ll be ringside — or wherever they station reporters for Madison Square Garden fights — Saturday night for one of the more meaningful heavyweight bouts in years, Vladimir Klitschko versus Sultan Ibragimov. It’s the showcase fight of the weekend in Week Two of a solid […]

20″ style=”width:100%; height:550px;” class=”mceEditor”>You know sometimes it’s nice to catch a glimpse of superstar athletes unscripted.  Other times it’s freakin’ hilarious as this clip of Bernard Hopkins reveals.

Dwight Howard may have won this years NBA slam dunk contest but Pavlik-Taylor II was the real all-star event.  Let’s get Punch Drunk! Pavlik Wins Again Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik looked even more impressive in earning a hard fought 12 round unanimous decision over Jermain Taylor in their highly anticipated rematch.  While some were calling […]

I’m getting depressed about leaving town for four days and being without access to a TV Saturday night, what with all the excitement ahead this weekend. There are some random thoughts on it below, plus the return of the “Heavy Bag,” my feature on info coming into my e-mail inbox from promoters and others. Your […]

Every sour thought you have about Jermain Taylor, the fighter, is probably right. The one-time burgeoning star middleweight (160 lbs.) has gotten worse, not better, over time. He makes too many mistakes in the ring. He’s an athlete who just happens to be a boxer, and he gets by too often on instinct. He struggles […]

Those of you who happen to frequent Ring Report know that from time to time my trusted colleague Tim and I like to share links to interesting stories as we find them in our daily net surfing. In that sense I would like to share with you all a very captivating article by Greg Smith entitled […]

Boxing is alive and well here in the good ol’ U.S. of A. contrary to the perception of the majority of the population as well as the mainstream media.  Financially, fighters are making more than they ever have in the history of the sport and pugs are crossing over into mainstream appeal with regularity.  But […]

Reuters, 2/12/08: Greed has replaced pride and honor in boxing, says Jose Sulaiman, the long-serving president of the World Boxing Council (WBC). Secondsout.com, in an undated Thomas Hauser piece after Kelly Pavlik defeated Jermain Taylor in September for the middleweight (160 lbs.) title: After referee Steve Smoger gave Kelly Pavlik his instructions in the dressing […]