Noted boxing historian and International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Hank Kaplan passed away peacefully in his sleep early this morning.  He was 88. Kaplan has long been considered the foremost boxing historian.  A lifelong fan of the sport, Kaplan founded Boxing Digest in addition to serving as editor for Boxing World.  In 2002 Kaplan was […]

While me and my compadres here at Ring Report have already announced winners of our first annual year end awards. I wanted to take some time and share some of my personal award winners in what could be labeled as “lesser categories”. Read on and enjoy!

It’s become one of boxing’s highest compliments: “That was a fight of the year candidate!” You know them when you see them. They’re the ones with all that crazy drama and action, the ones that have you leaping out of your chair, the ones that make you exhale forcefully because you’re struggling to grasp the […]

With the sport largely on cruise control through to the end of 2007, most of this week’s action has been outside the ring. This weekend’s fights are hardly worth noting, so I’ll hardly note them and focus on the other stuff. Three separate boxing flicks took steps forward this week. Sure to gain the most […]

Three minutes. To the the vast majority of us three minutes is an insignificant length of time. To a fighter inside the squared circle three minutes is an eternity. Careers can be launched or lost within those 180 seconds. Boxing provides a level of drama that simply cannot be replicated in any form or fashion […]

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is the young Muhammad Ali. He’s Sugar Ray Leonard. He’s a confused, simple-minded cartoon of the hip-hop ethic; he is the savviest of businessmen. He’s a good person. He’s a bad one. It’s all up for the discussion now. Because of his superstar-making year in 2007, fully realized after his impressive win […]

Boxing is first and foremost a sport but there is something primordial about two individuals standing toe-to-toe in the quest for physical dominance. In the sweet science the object is to hit and not get hit but punishment is guaranteed to any person brave enough to step into the squared circle. Inevitably one’s body will […]

It’s a dreary day here in the Lone Star State and with that I have been surfing the net in the hope that something grabs my attention.  Below are a few links to some interesting stuff.  Hope you enjoy. Here is a great story on a local promoter in Newark NJ by The Star-Ledger’s Steve […]

Boxing returned to prominent, public glory in 2007. Major fights happened between all the best boxers, and almost all of them lived up to the hype. With the year’s most important and promising battles having already transpired in in 2007, we turn our attention at Ring Report to our year-end awards. All week long, we’ll […]

Well the dust has settled on what was a surprisingly good show between Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather last Saturday. For those living under a rock, Mayweather knocked out the Manchester Mauler in 10 rounds with a clean counter left hook to the chin. With the win Mayweather solidifies his claim as the best in […]

Before we move on to other things — like Ring Report’s annual awards, coming all this week — I wanted to stop and ruminate on what turned out to be a great night for boxing Saturday when Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. put on a good show before an audience of millions. Hatton says […]

I was wrong to doubt it. But I was right to think that that best possible outcome was Ricky Hatton forcing Floyd Mayweather to fight. I thought it was back and forth until around the seventh, when Mayweather cranked up some of his vintage self — the one willing to take risks, the one concentrating […]

All right. The moment’s arrived. Three substandard undercard fights — Mayweather-Hatton better be good. I’m already sick to death of the “There’s only one Ricky Hatton” song. Liveblogging in the comments section below.

All right. Comcast forced me to miss the first three rounds of Cherry-Ferguson, but I’m up now. Have I mentioned www.comcastmustdie.com? Commentary in the comments section to follow.

My esteemed colleague Tim provided an excellent collection of links regarding tonight’s Mayweather/Hatton showdown.  As the fight draws near I too wanted to share a few links I stumbled across recently. If you want to get my prediction for this fight you can go here.  Additionally my editor at FightHype has solicited fight predictions from […]