(Photo credit: Bob Barton, DKP) In Saturday night’s HBO doubleheader, Devon Alexander-Andriy Kotelnik is about a fighter — Alexander — while Tavoris Cloud-Glen Johnson is about a fight. Alexander is a can’t-miss talent with physical gifts and wonderful skills, while Cloud-Johnson is a can’t-miss battle between two educated volume punchers near the top of their […]

Thirteen out of 35 people went three for four over the weekend with the big HBO/Golden Boy pay-per-view show, but it was the man who went four for four who vaulted to the #1 spot. Ultra-young Casey Kasem, eat your heart out, as BenOlson is the new leader of the pack. (Yes, I’m trying to […]

The moustache fest that was The Ten Buffest Dudes in Boxing didn’t do it for everyone. Some said it was homoerotic (which, to be fair, it was). Others were just upset that I left out Shannon Briggs and Juan Urango. So, to atone for my sins, here are the seven hottest women in boxing. Yeah, […]

If you are familiar with this sport “boxing” that we write about sometimes here you are most likely A. up to speed on the wrinkles of the never-ending downward spiral created in the wake the latest collapse of Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao and B. sick of it. I want to give you the option right now […]

Sakio Bika! So angular, so neglected. He’s only making $18,000 for the super middleweight title eliminator he’s in Saturday night, but at least he’ll get a touch of TV exposure to go along with it in the build-up to the big HBO/Golden Boy pay-per-view show. That’s something that’s up this weekend, plus some Friday Night […]

One of the best things about boxing is that anyone can participate, no matter what shape or size their body. It’s almost difficult to believe that junior flyweight Ivan Calderon and heavyweight Cris Arreola could play the same sport. At the same time, boxing produces some of the world’s most stupidly buff athletes. Let’s follow […]

(Most of the gang, from left to right: Jorge Linares, Robert Guerrero, Daniel Jacobs, Juan Manuel Marquez, Golden Boy’s Oscar De La Hoya, Juan Diaz, Dmitry Pirog, Joel Casamayor. Rocky Juarez probably didn’t show up until later.) For me, it’s not even a matter of debate: The Golden Boy Promotions/HBO pay-per-view card airing Saturday night […]

Detective McNulty: If Snotboogie always stole the money, why’d you let him play? Witness: You got to, this is America, man. (Omar coming) The Wire, the late HBO series that can best, and most simply, be described as being about how a city (specifically, Baltimore) works, and more importantly, how what doesn’t work stays that […]

(via CoachJohnWooden.com) Aside from the endless debates, speculations, accusations, hand-wringing, hair-pulling, and general mental instability surrounding the proposed Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather fight, another less heated, less debilitating, and ultimately more rectifiable debate has surrounded the two preeminent practitioners of the sweet science – who is the best fighter in the world, pound for pound? Mayweather […]