The boxing bits tickling our pickles this month… Andrew Harrison I’m looking forward to seeing “Bulletproof” Kirk Goodings against TBA in Houghton-le-Spring on April 19. Goodings (junior welterweight) is always great value. I witnessed him get knocked out for nine seconds a couple years back against Lee Jennings, only to jump up Bruce Seldon-style at the last […]

The good old Scrambler ride. Circles within circles. Since boxing is now divided up between networks and promoters who aren't likely to collaborate in a long, long time, it's a more apt metaphor for boxing's fights in the works than the carousel or merry-go-round metaphor we usually use around these parts. In this edition of […]

Brian Vera had his hands full with Donatas Bondorovas on ESPN's Friday Night Fights through seven rounds of a solid fight, but the referee made a highly debatable call to stop it at the end of that round. In the corner, asked if he could see through a cut over his left eye and over […]

It might make you cut weight, but a tapeworm is not exactly a performance-enhancing drug, so we're already defying the headline. A tapeworm like the homely fellow to the left is what laid 17 eggs in the brain of one of this weekend's combatants, light heavyweight Isaac Chilemba, six years ago. "If they hatched, they […]

(From left to right: Derry Mathews, promoter Eddie Hearn, Anthony Crolla) Anthony Crolla makes his first competitive start this weekend since the night he almost killed Heywood rival Kieran Farrell. In a suffocating December brawl, the 22-year-old Farrell developed an acute subdural haematoma that threatened his life. He survived but not without consequence. Farrell lost almost a […]

Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado are not like most humans. They’re not even like most boxers, a class of people who, to varying degrees, must suppress their self-preservation instinct. At the lowest end, the “hit and don’t get hit” subset of stylists still know what they’re in for when they enter the boxing ring, because […]

(Dec 1, 2012; New York City; Austin Trout celebrates his unanimous decision win over Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden. Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports) Been nearly three months round these parts since we updated the pound-for-pound top 20 list of the best boxers in the world regardless of weight, which is informational about how […]

All's well that ends for British boxer Curtis Woodhouse and his Twitter troll, upon meeting face to face. Nice apology, nice acceptance, good insight from Curtis about how he shouldn't have to block anyone — that the onus is on the troll to stop with the abuse. It's remarkable, really, how much time people spend […]