Olympic boxing’s final night in London had close bouts and blowouts, but thankfully avoided the controversy that has dogged the rest of the tournament (for the most part). After 272 fights, it’s all over. Britain’s Anthony Joshua capped off a great showing for the host nation, winning the gold medal on countback in the super […]

(A few good professionals-to-be? Left to right, via the London 2012 Olympics website: Denys Berenchyk; Roniel Iglesias; Vincenzo Mangiacapre; Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg) Projecting professional boxing prospects from the Olympics is a dicey affair. The ranks of can’t-miss-Olympian-turned-bust are flush. Sometimes the Summer Games’ newest graduating class produce a ton of quality pros and sometimes not, and […]

Ladies and gentleman, meet your first batch of 2012 Olympic gold medalists in men’s boxing: Zou Shiming of China, Luke Campbell of Great Britain, Roniel Iglesias Solotongo of Cuba, Ryota Murata of Japan and Oleksandr Usyk of the Ukraine. Two of the five get to the top of the medal stand a bit controversially, as […]

Great Britain and Kazakhstan sent two fighters apiece to the weekend’s gold medal bouts in the late Friday Semifinals session, but it wasn’t easy for three of the four. Meanwhile, the two finest male fighters of the Olympics, Vasyl Lomachenko and Robeisy Ramirez, continued to dazzle. Those two are spooky boxing machines. I think they […]

Don’t think I ever encouraged you to check out my brother’s Punch Captain strip, the entirety of which you can check out here. Don’t you want to know what the Punch Captain does? What he’s about? You won’t be disappointed, if you are interested in punching. Some bragging and administrative stuff before we get into […]

Ireland, the Ukraine and the hosts were the big winners in the first session of Olympic men’s boxing Semifinals Friday in London. Ukrainian sluggers Oleksandr Usyk and Denys Berinchyk booked their tickets in must-see gold medal bouts while John Joe Nevin continued the Irish fairytale started by Katie Taylor. Nevin will now face Britain’s Luke […]

The first women ever to box at the Olympic Games did themselves and their sport proud. Not just Nicola Adams, Katie Taylor and Claressa Shields, who will take home gold medals with their victories Thursday, but all 36 women who took part. These women proved, on the biggest stage of all, that women belong in […]

It would take decades at the current pace for any other nation to equal the United States’ mountainous pile of medals in Olympic men’s boxing, so dominant have the Yanks been in accumulating gold, silver and bronze. But it’s no longer unthinkable that it will happen. After the Quarterfinals ended this week, there were no […]

In the final day of men’s boxing Quarterfinal action, one division’s 2008 gold medalist had to edge by controversially and is looking vulnerable at age 31 (Zou Shiming), one division saw an upset that aroused a lot of passion (Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg vs. Thomas Stalker) and in another division, the consensus class of the division was […]

Female boxers proved themselves to be the equals of their male counterparts once again in London Wednesday. The standouts were Irish lightweight Katie Taylor and American middleweight Claressa Shields, who are now both firm favourites for gold. Flyweight Nicola Adams of Great Britain proved herself worthy of the home crowd’s affection in an earlier bout […]

That’ll do it for the Americans in men’s boxing at the 2012 Games. Errol Spence, Jr. got resurrected by the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) after a successful protest of his loss in the Round of 16, but couldn’t capitalize on his second life Tuesday against an opponent who was, simply, better. With that, we can […]

It’s been a while — a year, in fact — since we last dived into HBO’s ratings, and there’s a reason for that. Reliable boxing television ratings figures are rarely reported. So Matthew Paras did us all a huge favor last week by snaggging them from Nielsen for the past year and a half. But […]

There was one big exception, but the men followed the lead of the women in Olympic boxing Monday in being mostly controversy-free. In one division, the consensus gold medalist in waiting looks to be on the right path but could have a challenge or two ahead (lightweight), another division looks wide open (middleweight) and another […]

Women’s boxing put on a hell of a show Monday, mostly washing the nasty taste from yesterday’s terrible judging out of our collective mouths. There was atmosphere, upsets and feel-good stories galore at the Excel Arena in East London. Hometown favourite Natasha Jonas combined with Katie Taylor in a lightweight Quarterfinal to put on one […]

Let’s say you haven’t thrown up in your mouth enough over the last week or so. Maybe you’re asking yourself: What can I do to remedy that? Well, I’ve got good news, friends. Olympic boxing isn’t over. The Quarterfinals will continue for three more days, and this preview will get you through two of them. […]