Rest assured, we’ll soon have a full preview of the very exciting welterweight clash Saturday between Miguel Cotto and Joshua Clottey. But there are some other noteworthy bouts this week, and while I’d usually save discussions of those until Friday’s Quick Jabs column, one of the noteworthy events is Thursday night, when Versus debuts “Fight […]

Miguel Cotto is not a pitiable figure. He has made millions upon millions of dollars, he has risen to levels of popularity that few fighters obtain and he’s a legitimately excellent boxer who has accomplished a great deal in the ring. But in advance of his big fight this weekend against fellow top welterweight Joshua […]

There have been indicators here and there that HBO’s budget for boxing has been a little thin, but Maxboxing’s Steve Kim spells it out in this column: ..I’ve been told by more than one source in the industry that HBO’s remaining budget is relatively miniscule and they really don’t have that many dates left for […]

So we have official word now. With David Haye pulling out of one of the most anticipated heavyweight fights in years with a back injury, Wladimir Klitschko is going forward with a replacement opponent June 20, and that man is Ruslan Chagaev. HBO will not televise it as it intended to televise Klitschko-Haye, but a […]

Not much of a weekend of boxing ahead, with but one televised card, on ESPN2, and that one (allegedly) is a controversial salvage job, which we’ll explore in a minute. Besides that and the subjects in the headline, we’ll also take a look at the status of Shane Mosley’s steroid-related lawsuit; the application of flying […]

Just when it was on the verge of doing something nice with itself, the heavyweight division has moved from an F to an F- to an F–*, now that the Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye are no longer scheduled to fight June 20. The demise of Klitschko-Haye has a ripple effect throughout the whole dysfunctional […]

It is certainly noteworthy when the best fighter in the world, in this case Manny Pacquiao, says he would agree to a fight with another of the best fighters in the world, in this case the top-5 pound-for-pound and #1 welterweight Shane Mosley. It’s an excellent fight on paper, and matches two of the top […]

A couple years ago, I did something fans and writers in nearly every other sport do: I graded boxing’s divisions. NCAA basketball features constant comparisons and contrasts of power conferences, but nobody ever really does the same for pugilism. I intended to make an annual affair of it, but in 2008, I failed to do […]

Generally speaking, any article that attacks the title sanctioning bodies, I’m all for. But George Kimball — one of our finest boxing writers, and a nice guy — has put together a piece today that’s got all kinds of mistakes, by my accounting. Like, a ton.

It’s the first of the month. What’s on your mind, everyone? Starting you off with a dad’s assault on a referee in Finland (above, via Fanhouse), and a poll with a bad attitude about the heavyweight division (below). But really — bring up anything and everything on your mind. It’s what an open thread is […]

This, as they say, is why they fight the fights. Kermit Cintron upset Alfredo Angulo in a junior middleweight bout Saturday night on HBO where more than a few people thought it was glaringly obvious Cintron was going to get curbstomped, and he did it without much trouble at all, looking good along the way. […]

For some reason, I can’t resist the urge to poke at the disaster that is Ruslan Chagaev – Nicolay Valuev II, from conception to cancellation to radioactive fallout. Forget the Silver Bullet. For this mission, I need Basil Hayden’s.

I feel like it was just the other weekend that I was saying how bantamweight Silence Mabuza was making his return to elite competition after a couple setbacks in entertaining fights against Rafael Marquez, but I guess that got pushed back or sumpin, cuz all a sudden that fight is THIS weekend. I like Mabuza. […]

The Silver Bullet moves in me as I type this, and it’s about the only thing that could get me to write something more than a few sentences about the heavyweight fight Saturday between Nicolay Valuev and Ruslan Chagaev (headline from another writer: “Nicolay Valuev Vs. Ruslan Chagaev Rematch: Should We Just Ignore It?”). Or […]

After his rematch victory over Antonio Tarver this month, Chad Dawson’s shaky stock was no better, and, in fact, maybe worse. Many weren’t impressed with his performance, he’d sold less than 2,000 tickets total for both Tarver bouts and worst of all, he was actively proclaiming he had hoped to avoid Glen Johnson, the man […]