That YURIORKIS GAMBOA! is fighting Daniel Ponce De Leon Saturday on HBO presents chances to rejoice and chances for remorse. It’s a whole big Taijitu diagram kind of deal. Remorse: This is Gamboa’s first boxing venture since his hotly anticipated showdown against Juan Manuel Lopez was spoiled by Orlando Salido pulling the upset back in […]

If it feels more Floyd-y and Pac-y around here lately, it’s because anytime those men are due to fight soon, they’re constantly generating a bunch of news. That’s gonna be the case through September and somewhat in October and for sure in November. Just know that TQBR is, as always, a la carte. If you […]

No fighter ticks off boxing fans like welterweight Andre Berto, who is fighting Saturday night on HBO. He’s not alone in ticking them off, mind you, it’s just that the way he does it is unique. Whereas Floyd Mayweather and David Haye have inflamed hatred with their egomaniacal bragging and refusal to face their most […]

With all due respect to both Matthew Hatton and Andrei Abramenka, whose argument in Blackpool a couple of weeks back signaled an end to boxing’s close season in the U.K., a more fitting curtain raiser to what looks an exciting term ahead is offered in the guise of a bantamweight summit meeting diarised for Doncaster […]

That’s the outcome of the debate between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito over their rematch, visualized. As junior welterweights, they fight at 154 lbs. these days, both of them. But originally, Cotto reportedly wanted Margarito to fight at 150. Why? I never saw an explanation reported. It wasn’t like Cotto was moving up in weight, […]

My God! What a packed week of boxing. I haven’t seen anything like this since at least… July. Some of this stuff is even happening later today. So you don’t even have to wait ’til the weekend for slightly obscure fight action, streaming from around the globe. You certainly don’t have to wait for lots […]

People are still talking about the explosive, disturbing meltdown between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Floyd Mayweather, Sr. in the debut episode of 24/7 Mayweather-Ortiz. Some are so turned off by it they said they now would not purchase the pay-per-view for Mayweather’s welterweight bout against Victor Ortiz, and with children crying in the background as […]

When it comes to the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) in boxing, there is no meaningful argument. Sugar Ray Robinson was, is, and almost undoubtedly always will be the man. Like Babe Ruth in baseball, he was a trailblazer who ignited a path so bright and deep that the sport has followed ever since. His […]