There’s a kind of pessimistic feel around these parts lately, I concede. I’d been noticing some of the bad trends that Steve Kim writes about here, and pointing them out — none of the big fights we want, Top Rank’s increasing tendency not to deal with other promoters, etc. — although Kim does a pretty […]

The technical difficulties I mentioned — I can’t post pictures right now. So please enjoy the above video of a 12-foot-across crab molting. That move would be pretty handy for breaking free of a clinch in boxing, right? I got nothing. Wait! I do have technical difficulties. And a list of boxers who have fights […]

I have absolutely no good reason for linking to this comic other than that it’s funny and enthralling. It has nothing to do with boxing whatsoever, although a bit of “fishrage” might be helpful in the ring. I simply didn’t have a good way to start off this week’s column, short of complaining about some […]

Be forewarned: There’s some technical stuff going on at Bloguin that I won’t bore you with, but things might be a little herky-jerky around here for a couple days. Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr.-John Duddy, Saturday, Top Rank Pay-Per-View, Texas. A little more than a year ago, I would have bought this middleweight fight. Duddy was […]

It’s thought by some that the fist bump originated with boxing, you know. A handshake isn’t much of an option when you have 10 ounces of leather on your paws, so boxers touch gloves at the beginning of fights in a display of sportsmanship. But there’s a school of thought that touching gloves in a fight […]

Victory for Freck Billionaire! He won $6,000 from Floyd Mayweather in a court dispute over a record contract. The rapper has the freckles, obviously, per the stills in the video above where he disses Mayweather, and now he’s almost to billionaire status. If you dislike cussing, do not watch the video. If you dislike Mayweather, […]

This column was overdue for a renaming, so it’ll keep reshuffling newspaper names around. In this edition of The Manny-Floyd Clarion Bee, we augur the likelihood of Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao finally happening, from some goat guts laying around; mock the latest ignorant trash talk of Floyd’s poppy; similarly heap disdain upon the latest potential opponent […]

The main thing you’ll want to be watching this week is the latest installment in Showtime’s Super Six tournament Saturday night between American super middleweights Andre Ward and Allan Green. Unless, that is, you enjoy sending the message to boxing’s powers-that-be that you hate it when six of the best fighters in a division fight […]

Could there be any two more contrasting victories that those in the main events of the two biggest televised cards of the weekend? On Fox Sports Net/Fox Sports en Espanol’s Top Rank Live, junior flyweight champion Ivan Calderon outslicked Jesus Iribe to the extreme to take his customary decision win. Early on, Calderon looked vulnerable. […]

A commenter who clearly has it in for referee Arthur Mercante, Jr. mentioned the above fight recently in a list of Mercante’s sins. It was news to me. Until Saturday night, I’d thought Mercante was a pretty good ref. And maybe, on the sum of his career, he still is. But between the above clip […]