I’m getting the open thread started a little early (it isn’t yet the 1st Of Tha Month) and at an odd hour, but it’ll go until tomorrow afternoon at least. Most of you are West Coasters anyhow. Business items: Book club discussion begins. What’d everyone think of our first book, “Hands of Stone?” I’ll save […]

When I think New Zealand, I think David Tua and I think “Flight of the Concords.” Do I leave out “Lord of the Rings” because I learned from watching “Flight of the Concords” that Kiwis hate it when you bring that up? Maybe. Or maybe I just like boxing and fake folk groups more than […]

(The blubber of Chris Arreola, left, flaps as he is punched by Vitali Klitschko, with a right and at right. Photo: Pavel Terekhov) I could like Dana White, I really could. I respect what the man does promoting the UFC, giving fans the best match-ups most of the time, loading up his undercards from top […]

You can’t say enough about Chris Arreola charging ahead bravely Saturday night despite taking more flush shots from mega-punching heavyweight Vitali Klitschko than anyone had ever received, but what it got Arreola was what everyone else gets from Vitali: knocked out. The referee stopped the fight at the end of the 10th over the protests […]

There are moments in life where you feel like you’ve really done something. Today is one of those days for me. On page 24 of this November issue of Ring magazine, the Bible of Boxing, you’ll find a feature penned by yours truly, a profile of middleweight boxing prospect Edwin Rodriguez. I don’t think I […]

If it seems like we’ve been talking about Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez all week, well, we kind of have been. But there’s yet more business to take care of there. Don’t worry, it won’t get all heated and “Mayweather sucks” vs. “Mayweather is awesome” this time. We dodged that fate earlier today. Beyond that subject, […]

It’s official. HBO announced that Floyd Mayweather – Juan Manuel Marquez hit the 1 million number in pay-per-view buys. That is a shockingly high number. And it means a good deal. The first thing it means is that boxing isn’t dead. Consider that every lazy-minded sports journalist in America keeps saying, “Mixed martial arts is […]

(Lyle Fitzsimmons, pictured at right, singing, “Brave sir Floyd…”) There is no more sycophantic a writer amongst major boxing journalists who worship one specific fighter than Lyle Fitzsimmons, the BoxingScene/Miami Herald/TSN scribe who regularly sings the praises of Floyd Mayweather, Jr. as though a bard to the king. The sycophantic competition is fierce, mind you, […]

The biggest fight of the weekend is of course Vitali Klitschko-Chris Arreola at heavyweight, already covered. But you’ve got to hand it to GoFightLlive for picking up what could be the most fun fight of the weekend, David Diaz-Jesus Chavez at lightweight, AND another noteworthy bout to boot, Jean Pascal’s first defense of his light […]

Deja vu, son. This weekend, a fighter of Mexican descent will attempt to pull what would be a monumental upset against a style nightmare of a boxer who has a legitimate claim to calling himself “the best,” but who divides public opinion between love and loathe. Some are talking up the chances of the action […]

I got the main gist of what I wanted to say into yesterday’s post, but there are, as the headline suggests, a few other topics to discuss in greater depth about the Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez pay-per-view. Like what to make of Shane Mosley’s antics during the post-fight interview and Mayweather’s expressed devotion therein to […]

Floyd Mayweather is, and always has been, a magnificently gifted fighter, but what we saw tonight with him shutting out Juan Manuel Marquez was akin to a prime Shaq visiting his local high school and scoring 100 points. HBO’s announcing team gave him about the best blow job he’s ever received for “accomplishing” something so […]

Includes round by round coverage of the undercard. <a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=d7fcc3495c” >Mayweather-Marquez</a>

Suddenly there’s a hell of a lot of action at featherweight, as the headline suggests. But in this unusually brief edition of Round and Round, the feature where we surf around the news of fights in the works, we also touch on Joshua Clottey-Kermit Cintron at welterweight and a few other noteworthy bouts outside the […]

We pause from the all-consuming Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez blogging (especially because of how disgusting that fight now is to me, per the blog entry just below) to catch up with what’s happening in the rest of the boxing world. There are some other fights this weekend, including tonight; Acelino Freitas and Micky Ward are […]