Miguel Cotto didn't have much trouble with Delvin Rodriguez trying to punch him last year. But actress Michelle Rodriguez drunk at a Knicks game? She actually makes him change his facial expression from "nothing" to "something." (via) This is mostly going to be about fights in the works (Round And Round) rather than a news […]

He is the walking dead, front and center at many high profile matches, hovering over boxing like the specter of a media coverage cliche. Except he defies aspects of that cliche: He is a celebration of the sport — strange, bordering on supernatural, with beaming laser eyes serving as its brightly glowing highlights. This is […]

Rances Barthelemy very well might have been on his way to a resouding win over top junior lightweight Argenis Mendez on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. Instead he got a tarnished one with a knockout victory of Mendez that he earned after the bell rang to end the 2nd round. These two and controversy go hand-in-hand […]

Yes, yes, it’s 1/14 now and no longer 12/13, but this pound-for-pound list of the best fighters in the world regardless of weight is as of 12/13, so THERE. Adrien Broner’s Snickers-level satisfying beatdown by Marcos Maidana made room for a new entry from Asia, and if you recognize Shinsuke Yamanaka above, you probably already […]

Sick of the drip-drip-drip of year end boxing awards yet? Hard to blame you, hard to blame you. So we'll bring out two enormous platters to conclude our 2013 awards. In the first installment, that flavor was heavy and serious. In the second one, that flavor is light and fluffy. Just add "of the year" […]

We're at the point where we're starting to get some of the flavor of whether 2014 will follow on the example of a strong 2013 for boxing — not that we ought to read too much into it based on the early-year calendar, which tends to start slowly for the sport. The returns so far […]

"Get me the other bottle. The one I mixed." It has not been the best month ever for strength and conditioning/nutrition guy Alex Ariza. He mocked a fellow with Parkinson's disease and kicked him (Freddie Roach), then had one of his fighters (Brandon Rios) test positive for a banned substance and another (Marcos Maidana) be […]

(Timothy Bradley, left, Ruslan Provodnikov, right) The defining trait of Timothy Bradley vs. Ruslan Provodnikov, both before and during, was how little sense it made.  Choosing an opponent from the ranks of ESPN's Friday Night Fights for Bradley's comeback on HBO after a long layoff? Nonsense. Expecting a competitive fight out of it that fans […]

(Keith Thurman punches Jesus Soto Karass; photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) The best thing about this past weekend for many was simply that Adrien Broner got beat up. But the best thing that could happen as a result of it going forward is a meeting between Broner's conqueror, Marcos Maidana, and the man above, Keith […]