(Saul Alvarez) Last year around this time, in the similarly titled 2012 list, I floated a slightly scary thought: The lifespan of Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao as the era's superstars might be coming to an end. And this year, the signs are stronger than ever. Mayweather, in his last fight against Miguel Cotto, was […]

(Mikey Garcia connects on Orlando Salido; photo credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) The cause for doubt — minor though it was — about featherweight Miguel Angel Garcia coming into his HBO main event turn Saturday night was that for all his visible talent, he had not yet been tested. He still hasn't, but this time […]

Enough foreplay. January's ESPN2 Friday Night Fights and Showtime ShoBox cards have been all well and good, but the first "down to business"-style boxing event of 2013 is upon us Saturday on HBO. As the main event was rescheduled from late 2012 after one of the combatants suffered a training injury, it christens the New […]

Frankie Gavin looks to lay down a marker against Jason Welborn this Friday. Gavin, a riddle, defends his British welterweight title for the first time since acquiring it a couple months back from Bradford old hand Junior Witter. Tividale man Welborn, 11-1 (5), seems overmatched in this one (U.K. sports books have him posted as […]

Vanilla Ice. Iceman John Scully. Eating ice cream together. The universe almost exploded a couple days ago at this meeting of Ices, and you didn't even know. Mr. Scully is not coincidentally one of the topics of a hybrid Quick Jabs/Round And Round column. We'll discuss first some trash talk, some frivolous lawsuits and some […]

(Tom Casino, Showtime) ShoBox made its 2013 debut Friday, and while the year's inaugural installment shared some common traits with last year — Al Haymon-advised fighters appeared in both bouts — it bucked others, in that it did live up to the mission of the Showtime program, which is to test young fighters to see […]

2013 is upon us, but we still have one more thing to say about 2012, similar to this wrap-up from last year. In the meantime, let's gather up the confetti of boxing news that has greeted us in the New Year. First, we'll do a few Quick Jabs on broader news items, featuring doctors diagnosing boxers' ailments off […]

(Tomasz Adamek celebrates his win over a dejected Steve Cunningham) There was a moment toward the end of 2012, at the close of a boxing broadcast that aired on NBC — the first time that network had aired a live boxing event since 2005 — that almost perfectly encapsulated the year that the sport had. […]

Your Pu Pu Platter of boxing awards has arrived. So sorry it's late to your table. It's still 2012, so it remains warm to the touch. Please savor its many flavors. In the first installment, that flavor was heavy and serious. In the second one, that flavor is mostly light and fluffy. Just add "of […]

It was a busy few months for those who would be the elite boxers in the world, regardless of weight. Of the 20 people on this list, 11 of them fought since the last update in October, including two making their debuts. Exiting is junior middleweight Miguel Cotto, alas, coming off his loss to Austin […]

Happy holidays, friends. Santa Claus knows if you've been naughty, and he knows if you've been nice, and he will come down your chimney and if you've been naughty, be prepared to get KTFO. It's a short edition of Quick Jabs, just something to warm your Yule log and keep you up-to-date on a smattering […]