Lupe Contreras is all set for "Skyfall." The veteran ring announcer, whose query of “Quien es el mas macho?” is responded to by enthusiastic fans and eager fighters on a nearly weekly basis, considers 007 the embodiment of his inquiry. But he hasn’t ruled out "Twilight" fans as worthy competitors. Contreras became a staple for […]

It's too bad that there are just a handful of fights each year as true and right as Abner Mares vs. Anselmo Moreno, due on Showtime Saturday after a prolonged tease that never looked like it would come to climax. And if not for a needless, endless war between promoters Golden Boy and Top Rank, […]

Denis Grachev dragged Lucian Bute into exactly the kind of war that has sunk him in the past, but Saturday night on Wealth TV the popular Canadian transplant stayed afloat, winning an entertaining unanimous decision. There are clearly a lot of leaks in the hull, though, and as a fight meant to shake off the […]

Happy Halloween, ghouls and wights. That scary apparition above is actually old friend of the site Corey Erdman, wearing the best boxing-themed Halloween costume I've ever seen: He is dressed as "TBA," the dreaded opponent of well-connected boxers who have TV dates but no actual match-ups. Scaaaaaaary. In this Halloween-ish edition of Quick Jabs, we […]

(Luis Carlos Abregu connects on Thomas Dulorme; photo credit: Carlos Baeza, Thompson Boxing) No matter what kind of hype Puerto Rican welterweight Thomas Dulorme had accumulated as a prospect, no matter the insanely premature comparisons to Felix Trinidad, no matter the other legendary names HBO commentators were unnecessarily throwing out during the main event Saturday […]

It has been a long road for San Francisco's Karim Mayfield, but Saturday night, at age 31, the junior welterweight contender makes his HBO debut in an intriguing matchup with fellow Californian Mauricio Herrera of Lake Elsinore in southern California. The two were initially slated to meet in an ESPN2 televised bout back in mid-August, […]

First it's a couch with a pretty lady on it… …Then it's a couch that the pretty lady punches. If there's one thing that pretty ladies hate, it's couches. Grrrr. (via) Of greater interest to the general boxing fan is less such match-ups — in couch vs. pretty lady, I take pretty lady by late […]

(Thomas Hearns, with Emanuel Steward) The roster of acclaimed fighters Emanuel Steward trained, ones he built from scratch or rebuilt entirely or merely visited for a touch-up, never seems to stop scrolling down the screen: Thomas Hearns, Lennox Lewis, Wladimir Klitschko, Evander Holyfield, Oscar De La Hoya, Julio Cesar Chavez, Miguel Cotto, Naseem Hamed, Gerald […]

MANHATTAN, N.Y. — Wednesday night at the Roseland Ballroom, DiBella Entertainment staged another one of its famed Broadway Boxing cards, headlined by popular undefeated light heavyweight club fighter Seanie Monaghan in his first real fight against battle-tested Rayco Saunders. Monaghan (16-0, 10 KOs), of Long Island, had no trouble outworking Saunders, who fought from a […]

(Photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) First things first: I biffed the preview of Saturday night's Showtime card, plain and simple. I didn't realize it until today, when friend of the site Jake Donovan pointed out that the last "more is better" card wasn't in June, but in September, when the network aired a quadrupleheader that […]

The relaunch. The reboot. The retcon. The functions of these strategies are to effectively wrap current story lines and to allow them to start anew in an effort to expand fan base as well as cater to loyalists who have grown weary of the sequence of events. The terms are commonplace in the comic book […]

(Saturday night's Barclays combatants, via) Being there isn't all it's made out to be. Hell, I live five minutes by bike from the new Barclays Center, the long, tortured construction I've pretty much reviled from the beginning, having had dreams of things I could do to developer and Nets co-owner Bruce Ratner if I weren't […]

Sheffield’s Kell Brook popped Argentine Hector Saldivia like a balloon at the Steel City’s Motorpoint Arena, Saturday. After being steadily and systematically softened up, an already sickened “El Tigre” (based in Oxnard, Calif.) walked onto a ramrod straight left that put him onto his back and, after appearing to over-egg the wobbly-leg routine at the […]