When trying to decide between Nonito Donaire and Juan Manuel Marquez for Fighter of the Year, it comes down to a dilemma common to judging individual boxing matches: Do you like the man who did the consistent good work in superior volume, or do you like the man who made a stunning statement with that […]

Neither Brandon Rios nor Mike Alvarado strike one as the type to have any kind of use for frills; not the kind used to trim clothing, nor the kind that you might find on the neck of a lizard, nor in any oriental pigeons. Certainly, it's not anything they want soiling one of their bouts. […]

(Orlando Salido, left, Juan Manuel Lopez, right; credit: Amanda Kwok, Showtime) To say that in the 9th round of Orlando Salido-Juan Manuel Lopez II "Lopez threw caution to the wind" would imply that he usually had any to spare. But, for once, he actually did proceed with some modicum of caution March 10 on Showtime […]

Welcome to The Queensberry Rules' annual year-end awards, continuing throughout the week and into next. Here's how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Knockout of the Year, Round of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final leg is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging from […]

(Shane Mosley, left, embracing the man who beat him in his last fight, Saul Alvarez) When it was floated out there that we could potentially be seeing 147-pound titlist Paulie Malignaggi defending his strap against a comebacking Shane Mosley next year at Barclays Center, it was met immediately with complete disdain from the boxing community. […]

For Manny Pacquiao, Dec. 8 was a nightmare ending to a long fairy tale. For Juan Manuel Marquez, Dec. 8 was a fairy tale ending to a long nightmare.  It was an ending written out with one tremendous right hand. Pacquiao has been boxing’s happy, innocent warrior, its smiling, bouncing ball of lightning. Marquez has […]

(announcement) Last May, a small cabal of boxing writers discussed an idea that had all the staying power of a cigarette butt under a shoe. The idea was to create a global rankings organization uncompromised by competing interests and hell-bent on restoring sense to a confused sport. The writers found enough common ground to usher […]

(Amir Khan gives Carlos Molina an uppercut; photo: Tom Casino, Showtime) LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Saturday night at the Los Angeles Sports Arena on Showtime Championship Boxing, Carlos Molina fought like a guy in search of that Cinderella moment, similar to the one Josesito Lopez found in his shock victory against Victor Ortiz in June.  […]

(Leo Santa Cruz throws a right hand at Albert Guevara; photo credit: Tom Casino) For a while Saturday, Alberto Guevera was in danger of turning CBS' happy lead-in of Leo Santa Cruz as a family-friendly plugger into a tale of a guy who suffered his first loss and needed to learn to fight a little […]

The Internet suffers for no lack of pictures of women with boxing gloves draped over their breasts, but none have a worse haircut than that. (h/t unofficial TQBR visual consultant Che) Saturday suffers from no lack of boxing. You could watch boxing on TV in the United States starting on CBS at 4:30 p.m. until […]