Go, Butterbean, go. With your new television program where you are a sherriff’s deputy, entertain us crudely, as you did in the boxing ring. Give us the illusion of reality we crave from reality shows and/or fights where your opponents take dives. (h/t on the video to friend of the site dpg) Dammit, now I […]

Pawel Wolak’s face was the symbol of the weekend for boxing: ugly as sin, but with elements of what makes boxing great. That face helped the sport get a little attention from one of the biggest sports blogs out there, The Big Lead (quoting moi, blush blush). But however much Wolak’s swollen vagina of a […]

Following rumor after rumor after false report, this time it’s real. First came the Boxing Scene report that HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg would be gone by Monday, then came official confirmation today from HBO and Greenburg himself that the beleaguered chief of HBO’s boxing programming was departing. There are already conflicting reports over why […]

(Kevin Mitchell gives John Murray a left.) John Murray played Damien Karras to Kevin Mitchell’s Regan MacNeil in Liverpool on Saturday as the Londoner passed on the burden that had eaten away at him for more than a year following his loss to Michael Katsidis. A sizeable underdog going in, Mitchell withstood Murray’s bruising assaults […]

You might be asking yourself, “What do poorly rendered wax figurines of some cast members from Seinfeld have to do with boxing?” to which I’d answer, “Don’t be so impatient. All things are explained at TQBR.” See, light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins, in the next few days, will be getting a wax figure of himself […]

(Kevin Mitchell, at left; John Murray, at right) There has been an imaginary dividing line etched across Merry Old England since the Industrial Revolution, a hotchpotch of boundary stones separating northerners, seen as warm and gregarious provincial types, from their southern cousins, typified as insular urbanites wallowing in a realm of comparatively better wealth and […]

If that’s a Knockout of the Year candidate, it’s mainly because of how super middleweight Jean Paul Mendy drops, less because of Lucian Bute’s punch, which kind of clips the side of Mendy’s head, although that’s something that makes it interesting, too. I did find myself once more amused to hear Showtime’s team act, when […]

Underwater boxing! Better than fireworks boxing? Probably not, but it’s artier. For other “insane underwater movie sets,” go here. (h/t friend of the site Jim) Besides the stuff in the headline, we’ve got some notes on some early weekend action, the future of boxer Nonito Donaire, Andrew Bynum’s boxing future and more. Quick Jabs Boxing […]

Boxing cognescenti have offered up Saturday’s Brandon Rios-Urbano Antillon clash as the antithesis of this past Saturday’s deeply disappointing heavyweight fight between champ Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye. It’s not a bad offering, that’s for sure. Rios and Antillon are two of the few boxers today who could be considered true pressure fighters, the kind […]

For someone so dedicated to telling the truth, Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios has had a tough time getting folks to believe him. The WBA lightweight beltholder, who headlines this Saturday’s Showtime-televised card against Urbano Antillon, was dismissed as a youngster when he claimed he would become a professional boxer. Most people still can’t handle his […]