Also in this edition of Quick Jabs: a reconsideration of the devastating loss of Wednesday Night Fights and Solo Boxeo; another boost to the suddenly hot junior middleweight division; and some high jinks involving a stolen boxing ring, loaded gloves and mysterious dismissals. (Sources: News releases; Fightnews.com; Maxboxing.com; The Associated Press; BoxingScene.com; Insidesports.ph; ESPN.com; TheSweetScience.com)

Call this week “Joe Calzaghe’s Super Middleweight Leftovers And Rejects Week.” Which is not as bad as all that, really. Calzaghe has established himself as the top man at the weight (168 lbs.) of all time, and in and of itself, it’s not so terrible to be felled opponents of the great Welshman, as Jeff […]

As incredulous as it may seem the WBC is again drawing the wrath of knowledgeable fans and pundits with there latest public decry that Manny Pacquiao pay them a sanctioning fee for his December 6 mega fight with Oscar De La Hoya.  Never mind that fact that the fight will be contested not for any […]

Wherein anything tangentially connected to this weekend is fair game for scattershot observations.

Please give a look at the new tab in the banner: More Links. There are several reasons for this More Links section. First, I didn’t want some giant list of links across the right column of the page, although you still can find about a dozen there. Second, I wanted to link to some pals […]

I wrote here about a weird fight a month ago where one fighter kissed the other mid-bout, but it was a minor, off-TV (ahem) affair. HBO, unbeknownst to me, taped it and then posted the clip on YouTube a couple days ago, which I learned of via BoxingScene.com. You can see it above. The commentary […]

It’s a shame that a headline like this, from BoxingScene.com, would even be necessary: “America, Roy Jones, Finally See Best Of Joe Calzaghe.” And yet, prior to Saturday’s drubbing of Jones, Calzaghe was a virtual unknown in the United States. SportsCenter, in previewing the fight, gave a little list of facts about Calzaghe’s career; Jones […]

Arthur Abraham completely overwhelmed Raul Marquez Saturday, employing the vaunted “vastly superior in every measurable physical trait that matters in boxing” method to score a technical knockout win in a defense of his middleweight (160 lbs.) title belt.

Outrage #1: Vitali Klitschko just can’t BELIEVE that the WBC would be insisting he defend his new heavyweight title as they wish against Juan Carlos Gomez. That, despite what the WBC said here, according to Fightnews.com: “Vitali Klitschko recently regained the title he never lost in the ring by vanquishing reigning champion Samuel Peter. As […]

Also in this edition of Quick Jabs: HBO makes an overdue foray into selling younger fighters; Marco Antonio Barrera returns; and Israel Vazquez simultaneously awes and worries me.

Steve Kim’s an excellent and pugnacious boxing writer for Maxboxing.com, and I usually agree with him in whole. His latest column offers many “amen” moments, but it offers a few points I take issue with as well. I’ll excerpt the column and respond to it piece by piece. To read the entire column, go here.

Folks, I’m not going to lie, I have VERY little interest in this Saturday night’s PPV battle between Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jr.  In fact I can think of roughly 300 things I would rather spend my hard earned $50 on.  One such attractive alternative would be to pay a homeless man to rip […]

And you thought the elections were over. Nope. The award for Fighter of the Year is wide open. Last year wasn’t easy either, and it really came down to Miguel Cotto, Kelly Pavlik and Floyd Mayweather. All were defensible, excellent choices. This year, though, even those with the strongest candidates, there’s cause for doubt about […]

Boxing and politics have overlapped at times this year, so on Election Day, here are some links to ponder: TheSweetScience.com asks, “Could boxing fans push the election to McCain?” That’s because Republican John McCain has, in the U.S. Senate, tried to overhaul boxing regulations, per this in-depth story by my old day job colleague Amol […]

I dub this past weekend “The Weekend of the Crab,” in honor of crab fightalike Vic Darchinyan, who delivered the fight of his life in his smash-up of fellow junior bantamweight (115 lbs.) Cristian Mijares. I’ve got some leftover thoughts on The Weekend of the Crab I’d like to share, a few of which have […]