Happy Halloween. What do you think would happen if Manny Pacquiao (at right) fought the actual Batman (not his trainer Freddie Roach dressed as the Dark Knight, at left)? Answer if you’re a Pacquiao fanatic: “Pacquiao would make him taste the canvas in one round and then knock out Superman in the 2nd round!!!!” Answer […]

There are little pockets of the boxing schedule that offer dark horse opportunities for one of the best fights of any given year to emerge, and Saturday on Showtime brings the latest. You can’t say the bantamweight bout between Joseph Agbeko and Yonnhy Perez is a well-kept secret, or that people think Perez can’t win, […]

Who loves media notes? C’mon, who? What, nobody? And when I do it I inevitably piss off some journalist who subsequently gives me grief? Makes me wonder whether it’s worth it. But duty is duty. I do strongly believe in the idea of blogs checking the so-called “mainstream media,” so boxing writing is just as […]

That was as good as advertised, that “Muhammad And Larry.” It wasn’t even quite a full hour, but the documentary about the fight between Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes made me feel sad, angry, touched, tickled and embarrassed. It’s an exceptionally well-made film, painful as it is, on the whole, to watch. ESPN is to […]

I know I said in the headline I wasn’t going to talk about Joseph Agbeko-Yonnhy Perez — I’m going to give the bantamweight bout its own preview later this week — but that picture needed to run immediately. The contrast between the smiling mugs of Agbeko and Perez, and the eye-bulging look on the face […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bD-aUQKnTw The video above (more like “at left” at least on my computer, because of ongoing technical difficulties with the site) starts us off on a good note — it’s the first of three clips you can watch of the stirring Fight of the Year-caliber bout between Ryan Rhodes and Jamie Moore. Later on in […]

Any time a ShoBox main event pits two 30-something “prospects” against each other and the most intriguing question of the accompanying fight is how the journeyman whose last opponent died after the fight will bounce back emotionally in his undercard fight against a future journeyman, you know it’s time to kick the habit. Showtime, you […]

The fight that captivated Poland turned out to be not much of a fight at all, as cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek moved up to heavyweight to cut down Andrew Golota with virtually no difficulty whatsoever. When Golota showed up to the weigh-in at a career-high weight and looking thick around the middle, he didn’t help […]

So this is what rigor mortis feels like. Boxing is so dead that a heavyweight fight in Poland this weekend between Andrew Golota and Tomasz Adamek is set to break records for live attendance at an event in the biggest facility in that country, and it’s set to be viewed by 10 million people or […]

It’s been two months since my last update of the list of the best fighters in the world, regardless of weight, and some pound-for-pound players have been in action during that time. What makes sense on updating these things? After a change? Every month? Dunno, but I haven’t figured out how to post a picture […]

Really, Kelly Pavlik? You’re going to do this another time? The trainer of the middleweight champion, Jack Loew, says Pavlik won’t be ready to go by Dec. 5, the date he was scheduled to fight Paul Williams in one of the most anticipated bouts of 2009. This is the second (attempted) postponement of said fight, […]

The bad news: It’s a light week on the boxing schedule again. The good news: I won’t be saying that again until damn near Christmas. Seriously, give her a look. There’s not a bad week of boxing from Halloween until two weeks before Santa Claus arrives. For now, we’re left with: Pacquiao/Cotto 24/7, Saturday. OK, […]

Showtime has helpfully released the scorecards for the controversial Carl Froch-Andre Dirrell super middleweight fight from Saturday evening. I’ve attached them after the jump.   Noteworthy: The only rounds that every judge scored for Dirrell is the 10th. Every judge scored the 6th, 7th and 8th for Froch. The rest of the things are all […]

Weekend Afterthoughts: The Bravery Of Jermain Taylor; The Comedy Of Arthur Abraham’s Trunks; The Sanctity Of The Super Six Tournament; More Good lawd y’all people have had a lot to say about this Super Six super middleweight tournament. I love it. Since I’m still getting comments today, I thought it might be worthwhile to circle […]

I hate to make the easy Robin Hood joke, but in the opening round of the Showtime Super Six tourney, the judges stole from the rich and gave it to the poor when Andre Dirrell — who won 10 rounds on my scorecard — when they gave the fight to Carl Froch by split decision, […]