It’s going to get pretty hard soon to avoid the dumb-as-rocks debate over boxing versus mixed martial arts, seeing as how on Sept. 19, the UFC and boxing each are putting on pay-per-view events. Maybe ignoring it is the right way to go. But the parade of morons on the MMA side — and, really, […]

They had a heckuva nice fight north of the border last night, with 19-year-old junior bantamweight Marvin Sonsona proving he was legit by defeating veteran Jose Lopez via decision. Sonsona came up big in two departments that undid other green Filipino prospects in the last year or two: chin (goodnight, Rey Bautista) and stamina (goodnight, […]

How many Quick Jabs is too many Quick Jabs? The answer: None many. None many Quick Jabs is too many Quick Jabs. So, a few days after my last such news round-up (complete with flippant and/or trenchant analysis) here’s another one. The big news of the week has to be Shane Mosley-Joshua Clottey, but it […]

(We’ve talked at TQBR several times recently about books on boxing, so the wonderful guest post below, by Jonathan Clarke, comes at a most timely occasion. Save this list. –Tim) Since so much of what passes for boxing journalism these days is thrown together to meet deadlines, it is easy to forget that over the […]

It’s funny what happens when you push yourself away from boxing for more than a week. Fights are a go then disappear. Fights are in jeopardy then are fine. You realize, really, how much of the news of boxing is gossip-driven, how much people react instantaneously to developments with such single-minded passion, only for counterpoints […]

Hiya, team. I’m back from Spain, where the cab drivers don’t know who Sergio Martinez is and where nothing went quite like it was supposed to. I missed the entirety of the tomato fight, for instance, not because several of my pals bailed out on going to it from Barcelona after committing months ago; I […]

& Good fights remind us why we love boxing. The atmosphere of an ecstatic crowd, the tension that builds when two fighters refuse to back down, the drama that unfolds as adversities mount – these fights write the history of the sport. Robinson-LaMotta. Graziano-Zale. Ali-Frazier. Hagler-Hears. Castillo-Corrales. Vazquez-Marquez. However, like most objects of love, boxing is not perfect. […]

When I started on Twitter, I envisioned it as a way of giving quick thoughts to readers of the blog in the right hand column, and little more. Then, mere months ago, very few boxers were on Twitter. Now, tons of ’em are, and more enlist every week. They are all of varying levels of […]

The theme of the evening at the Seminole Hard Rock was pressure and strength trumps experience and precision as Juan Urango and Tavoris Cloud both came away with excellent wins over their very accomplished opponents. In the main event we saw the challenger Randall Bailey play the part of matador to the champion Juan Urango […]

Friday Night Fights followed its worst broadcast in years with one of its best, as a pair of meaningful fights with world titles on the line lived up to the hype in the season finale. In the opener, Tavoris Cloud finally got back into the ring for the first time in over a year and […]

I went to Lou DiBella’s Broadway Boxing card at BB King Blues Club & Grill in New York for two reasons. One, because I’m intrigued by Tor Hamer, a young, unbeaten, American heavyweight prospect I’ve seen on ESPN2, previous Broadway Boxing cards that aired on SNY, and read about on this very blog. Two, because […]

Say what you will about this season of ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights — I thought it was improved, others did not — it sure is closing strong. This weekend, by far its best card in a long, long time will go a long way toward healing the wounds of its worst card in a long, […]

BoxingScene reports that the California commission has overturned the result of the Nate Campbell/Tim Bradley fight, changing it to a no-contest because the cut that stopped the fight was clearly the result of an accidental headbutt. The right call to make, for sure. And a nice example of justice prevailing in a sport where it […]

Greetings from the past! As I write this, it is Friday, and I’m prepping for my vacation. So while I intend this post to fill you in on the week’s other major boxing events in my absence — aside from the stellar upcoming Friday Night Fights card, already previewed (in my future) yesterday — there’s […]

Whoops — sorry about the formatting, folks. Still getting used to this system. We all remember the 2002 Olympic figure skating controversy. Despite a seemingly clearly inferior performance, a Russian pair won the gold medal in the face of a dazzling performance by Canadians Jamie Salé and David Pelletier. The blame immediately fell on the […]