Both BoxingScene and the Las Vegas Review-Journal are reporting that what would have been the richest fight in boxing history, Floyd Mayweather, Jr.-Manny Pacquiao, is dead. The Review-Journal reported that Mayweather turned down an unspecified compromise Top Rank and Golden Boy worked out during mediation. BoxingScene reported that Mayweather wouldn’t accept a 24-day cutoff for […]

I recently posted a short piece about the best boxing books, a list that included “The Sweet Science,” a collection of A.J. Liebling’s articles from the New Yorker that constitutes a kind of cultural history of boxing in mid-century. Now one of the best-known pieces from “The Sweet Science,” “Ahab and Nemesis,” about the 1955 […]

I’m usually all, like — standards, guidelines, consistent principles, etc. etc., blah blah blah. But I’ve had three frozen pineapple margaritas at the sushi place, I’m still bitter about writing a full blog entry last night that I then failed to save and therefore lost, and I’m thinking to myself, “What the hell fights do […]

We recently ran down the Round of the Year for 2009 and the Round of the Decade. But what about the best rounds EVER? Friend of the site Andrew Harrison, of Safe Side of the Ropes, contributes a highly innovative take on the question below. (And I’m going to stop introducing people now that there’s […]