The wait to figure out who Floyd Mayweather will beat next is over, and the choice, announced Monday, is Marcos Maidana. It was always down to two men, Maidana and Amir Khan, and an impatient, overeager, petulant Khan deliberately removed himself from the competition last week, declaring, laughably, that Mayweather was scared — a failed […]

(Hank Lundy drops Angelo Santana; photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Bless Hank Lundy's arrogant, stubborn soul. He doesn't need to trade punches like he does and really ought not to, based on that knockout loss to John Molina, yet he does it anyhow. Far from perfect, he's just good enough to hang with superior fighters […]

For a tournament of mostly unknowns, you couldn't ask for much better entertainment value than what the men in ESPN2's Boxcino 2014 tournament gave us on Friday Night Fights. The entertainment value was derived from the format, which featured six round bouts to start, and/or the nature of the fighters themselves: They all had plenty […]

What the hell was that? Fox Sports 1, which hosts the worst boxing program on television by a galaxy or two, delivered an evenly-matched main event Monday night with some late drama. Manuel Avila, the 21-year-old junior featherweight prospect, won a bout where the outcome was unclear until the 10th and final round, when he […]

Hope you all had a nice multi-holiday long weekend, from a romantic Valentine's Day to an, um, wooden-teethed, top-hatted President's Day? Main Events put together some corny-ass Valentine's Day cards for a number of its fighters, which was a great promotional gag. Check them all out on Twitter @Main_Events, but of course light heavyweight Sergey […]

Fidel Maldonado, Jr. won in the Fox Sports 1 headliner Monday, doing his job effectively against a late replacement opponent, but a different junior, Errol Spence, was the fighter of the night. Spence and fellow 2012 U.S. Olympian Terrell Gausha were matched against opposition of the non-rollover variety — contrary to the custom for FS1 […]

(Barry Hunter, left; Lamont Peterson, right) Before Lamont Peterson fought Dierry Jean last month, all of the chatter was about was about whether there was enough left of the past, pre-Lucas Matthysse knockout version of Peterson. A few weeks later, now that Peterson has answered that chatter definitively with a sharp, entertaining performance in his […]

[Sep 14, 2013; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Danny Garcia (red gloves) and Lucas Matthysse battle during their junior welterweight fight at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports] Floyd Mayweather sits alone atop boxing, its best and richest fighter, his crown refurbished after a brief flirtation with the threat of dethronement posed by […]

Which is more disturbing: the above tattoos, all on one man, of the Mayweather clan, via

Gennady Golovkin beat the hell (and mouthpiece) out of Osamanu Adama over seven rounds in Monte Carlo Saturday, despite a solid showing from Adama. There was even this one time in the 4th round where, like, Adama made GGG bleed, and then this other time in the 5th when he backed him up for a […]

It ain’t easy being an opposition leader in the turbulent Ukraine. Even when you try to make peace, even when you’re a fearsome heavyweight boxer named Vitali Klitschko, you might get a face full of fire extinguisher. (via) Besides that, and besides the subjects in the headline, this edition of Quick Jabs will round up […]

(Gavin Rees, left, faces off with Gary Buckland) Professional boxing promoters — alchemists that endeavour to weave plot lines into the business of prize fighting — employ a number of well-worn scripts. One of the more bankable in terms of generating high drama — dog-eared from its ubiquity in fact — involves the casting of […]