(David Haye, left; Wladimir Klitschko, right) It’s really going to happen. On June 20, the world’s #1 heavyweight, Wladimir Klitschko, is going to fight David Haye, a fighter that myself and a lot of others want to be the champion of the moribund division. ESPN reports that the deal is done, and the contracts will […]

If you thought it was wacky for Top Rank Promotions President Bob Arum to suggest pound-for-pound king and Filipino idol Manny Pacquiao might fight Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. at junior middleweight, wait until you get a load of what he told BoxingScene: After taking junior welterweight champion Ricky Hatton’s belt, the plan is to move […]

It’s right around the 1st, which means it’s time for our monthly open thread. Thank you for that kind introduction, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. (And a tip o’ the pen to first of the month expert/pal Marc for video inspiration.) My question for everyone is this: How are you dealing with the dueling Saturday televised cards? Both […]

At least once a day during the NCAA tournament, a color commentator calling a game on CBS or a SportsCenter anchor calling the highlights later on ESPN will say something along the lines of “It was like two heavyweights going at it.” Or, “This is like a championship boxing match where neither team will back down.” […]

It has been three days since news broke that the California Department of Justice determined Antonio Margarito had ingredients of plaster of Paris in his hand wraps before he went out to fight Shane Mosley Jan. 24. I’d withheld final judgment, since only one news outlet reported it; since the report mentions the presence of […]

On Shobox Saturday, Harry Joe Yorgey ended the Ron Hearns experiment for the time being, as the light-hitting junior middleweight knocked out the son of legendary Thomas in the 9th. In the main event, super middleweight Andre Dirrell stopped underqualified Derrick Findley in the 6th when his corner ended the fight, but Dirrell probably could […]

I’m pretty close to finished with all the tinkering with the site. In the last month, we’ve had a major redesign, the start-up of our Twitter feed and the departure of Sean. The latest change is just a bit of switching around. I’ve done away with the blogroll in the right column and moved all […]

So what do we have on tap tonight? On a pay-per-view not worth the money, there’s junior middleweight Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., junior lightweight Humberto Soto and bantamweight Fernando Montiel in against weak competition. I don’t complain much about Chavez’ soft competition because he has no amateur career and he’s 23, but I don’t think […]

It could have been worse, it could have been better. In the ESPN2 “Friday Night Fights” main event, Eddie Chambers won on two judges’ scorecards and drew with Samuel Peter on the other. It was, I thought, a decently paced, reasonably crisp battle for heavyweights, but I got the impression that if either man had […]

It’s too bad bettors made heavyweight Eddie Chambers the favorite in his Friday night ESPN2 bout against Samuel Peter, because I was eager to pick the non-top-10 ranked fighter to upset Ring magazine’s #6 man and reap credit if the underdog delivered. Instead, the smart money went to Chambers. And as of today, it’s looking […]

The L.A. Times has a piece up about the California Department of Justice lab results on the foreign substance in the hand wraps Antonio Margarito was going to wear for his January welterweight fight with Shane Mosley. It is bad, bad news for Margarito, and for the sport, considering Margarito’s standing as one of the […]

How’s this for a coincidence (sarcasm alert!): Six straight opponents of the heavyweight brothers Klitschko have been accused, by some critics or nearly everyone, of not trying very hard to win, of not taking advantage of openings, or just generally acting like they were disinterested in being there. For Wladimir, those opponents were, in reverse […]

Finally. Finally. Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik and his #1 challenger, Arthur Abraham, have agreed to fight in the fall, Pavlik promoter Bob Arum told Ring. If you’re a real boxing fan, odds are excellent that you’ve wanted to see this fight for a year or more. I’ve craved it.These are two of the hardest punchers […]

It seems like every week these days I’m putting up some Fight of the Year or Knockout of the Year candidate, and this week’s clip comes all the way from Ireland Saturday night. Six knockdowns. Three cuts. Swings in momentum. Both men somehow fighting through tremendous punishment. More than 9,000 screaming, chanting fans. A dramatic […]

It’s not Vitali Klitschko’s fault that he’s as good as he is and the division he’s in is as bad as it is. The most complete package at heavyweight barely worked up a sweat Saturday demolishing a fellow top-10 heavy, Juan Carlos Gomez, with the only trouble he endured being a couple decent lefts and […]