As Belfast’s Carl Frampton shimmers in the aftermath of another well executed hatchet job this past weekend, his domestic rival and newly appointed British king at junior featherweight, Scott Quigg, looks to tilt the spotlight back his way on Saturday against recently retired Welshman, Jamie Arthur. Quigg punched laser beams through Jason Booth in October […]

(image via) There have been times when Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto would have set my heart ablaze. May 5, 2012 is not one of those times; Cotto is now past his prime, and Cotto isn’t Manny Pacquiao, THE opponent that Mayweather he should have been fighting for the past two-plus years but hasn’t. […]

Floyd Mayweather, Jr., tech company investor. He’s perfectly suited for the role. We already know how he likes to overhype how much money he’s worth. (via, h/t Bloguin’s Ben Koo) In this edition of Quick Jabs, besides that and the stuff in the headline, we examine whether Victor Ortiz is banging Vanessa Bryant; the Nonito […]

(Photo via) As an evangelical boxing writer and fan, I’m often looking for gateway points wherein people might perk up their interest in their sport, and there’s at least a chance — based on the mainstream news coverage it’s been getting — that the boxing card being put on by Snooki (of “Jersey Shore” fame) […]

NEW YORK CITY — Lou DiBella kicked butt in the launch of his ninth year of Broadway Boxing. Saturday night at The Roseland Ballroom in New York was one of the best nights of boxing I’ve seen in a long time. The Roseland is next door to the Broadway house where “Jersey Boys” is playing. […]

(Photo: Tom Casino, Showtime) Early on in the Guillermo Rigondeaux-Rico Ramos non-fight on Showtime Saturday, the crowd got to booing. They clearly hadn’t done their homework if they expected big-time action. Or maybe they got their expectations up after an undercard that had plenty of the stuff. What they got instead was a main event […]

A Disney PR outreach has made it so this blog (like others) is able to give away a free copy of the “Real Steel” Blu-ray/DVD combo pack — a film I reviewed mostly warmly here — to one of its readers. How can you snag your copy via TQBR? A poetry contest. Yes, a poetry […]

Rico Ramos-Guillermo Rigondeaux Friday on Showtime potentially sizes up as an artful, technically adept posefest, punctuated by moments of sudden and extreme violence. It very well could be the “Drive” of boxing. Or maybe it will be one of those things — a posefest — or the other — violence in the extreme. But those […]

(David Price, left; John McDermott, right) The Olympia in Liverpool has a busy schedule on its hands this weekend, playing host as it does to a succession of fight nights commencing Friday. Heavyweight colossus David Price and battle-torn lightweight “Dirty” Derry Matthews will be hoping to make it into the winner’s enclosure surrounded by friends, […]

(Mustafa Ameen, at right, mystery manning) The more the so-called “mystery man” talks, the more confusing it gets, the question of “what it was he was doing at the Amir Khan vs. Lamont Peterson fight in December.” Ever since the day he popped up into boxing’s richly-populated scandalosphere — where scandals real and imagined flourish […]