This weekend’s Pinoy Power card features in its main event one of the two finest Filipino boxers in the world, junior bantamweight Nonito Donaire (second only to Manny Pacquiao), but alas, he’s in something of a mismatch on paper. Gerson Guerrero is a heavy hitter, but he doesn’t have a single win of note and […]

It was a fallacy to think lightweight sensation Edwin Valero was a one-dimensional puncher, which isn’t the same as saying he’s a master craftsman in the ring. But he showed off every skill he has Saturday on Showtime in beating up young Antonio DeMarco and forcing his corner to call a halt to it at […]

The old man just keeps plugging along. 41-year-old Glen Johnson will get another shot at a light heavyweight title belt after a 6th round knockout win over 30-year-old Yusaf Mack on ESPN2. As much as I love the amiable, classy Jamaican, and as happy as I am for him in notching this win, I thought […]

While giving a rundown of the biggest happenings in the sport to one of my roommates the other night (believe it or not, he had not heard a thing about the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather negotiations; sometimes it’s not such a small world), he made a comment that boxers’ names seem to be less interesting than […]

Dear Friends of Open Thread, Like Jorge Arce’s career from fight to fight, the Open Thread is always just barely clinging to some semblance of life. We count on your contributions to keep Open Thread going. Won’t you make a donation to Open Thread by coming up with some provocative topics to discuss? I don’t […]

If ESPN2 airs a better main event this year than the one it has coming up this weekend on paper on Friday Night Fights, I’ll be mighty surprised. Glen Johnson (#3) and Yusaf Mack (#7) are two of the top Ring magazine-ranked light heavyweights in the world, and the winner will get a shot at […]

In a Boxing Monthly preview piece from 1999, Steve Farhood carried out an analysis of boxing “superfights” over a 20-year period. In order to determine just how many of the sport’s biggest nights were what they had been purported to be, the writer used a three-point criteria, which was as follows: Are both fighters in […]

Jorge Arce hasn’t looked so hot the last year or so, but he mysteriously got another title shot and won it, beating Angky Angkota in a 7th round technical decision Saturday on Fox Sports Net to take the WBO junior bantamweight trinket. In the 1st round, Angkota was exploiting Arce’s weakness for people who don’t […]