I’d gathered from many boxing fans that they were all quite sick of talking about Antonio Margarito and his loaded hand wraps, a multi-year saga that’s been debated endlessly over that period. So when Texas granted him a boxing license Thursday to clear the path for a November fight with Manny Pacquiao — which was […]

(Above are a couple panels from my brother’s web comic running now at kylestarks.com. It depicts a big ol’ punch, which is the thinnest reed I need to use it as an excuse to promote my little bro, who’s suddenly getting well-deserved widespread attention on sites like io9 and ComicsAlliance for his work.) When it […]

Junior middleweight Antonio Margarito finds out as soon as this week whether he’ll get his boxing license in Texas, but there have been two other seedy-seeming incidents overshadowed by that scandal. Although, as you’ll soon see, both are a bit related to Margarito. In one case, the media has stayed on top of it: the […]

Forget the whole “unification” aspect of Ivan Calderon-Giovanni Segura this weekend, even if there hasn’t been a junior flyweight alphabet belt unification bout since 2003. It’s for Calderon’s Ring magazine lineal championship, which is all the belt anyone needs, but it’s more than that. In a 2010 where you can only point to a couple […]

When I was in high school, I’d long been a fan of what was then called “alternative rock.” I’d liked it because I was an outsider, alienated from the popular kids, and much of that music was made by outsiders who were odd in some way. I hated, in turn, all the things that the […]

(The crowd at Tomasz Adamek’s fight is almost as interesting as the fights themselves.) The streets of Newark were a sea of red as I approached the Prudential Center for the heavyweight bout between Tomasz Adamek and Michael Grant. Adamek’s legions of supporters are nothing like the Hollywood-esque fans that stroll in only for main […]

“Prehistoric terror bird jabbed like boxer,” reads the headline describing the newly-discovered killing methods of the creature above. Circle, stick and move has worked for that long, at least: 60 million years. Some pro boxer, some day, must take the nickname “Prehistoric Terror Bird.” If I could, I would, and I’d combine it with a […]

Even with the way my boxing news feed fills up with stories about James Toney vs. Randy Couture, each day that goes by without me mentioning it feels like a personal triumph. Many of the headlines are along the lines of “Mixed Martial Arts and Boxing Face Off with Couture vs. Toney” or something, and […]

Maxboxing’s Steve Kim has an interesting interview with Kathy Duva, the woman running the show at Main Events, in advance of this weekend’s Tomasz Adamek fight. I entirely agree with her approach of keeping fighters busy, with or without HBO money, and was quite surprised to see her say that Adamek’s stay-busy bout with old […]

(Jean Pascal, left; Chad Dawson, right) MONTREAL — If nothing else, last night’s light heavyweight fight between Chad Dawson and Jean Pascal offered a pretty rich tapestry for fingers to be pointed, for credit to be given and for perceptions to be altered. There were a lot of nuances, although there was also a considerable […]