Why hasn’t HBO posted its video highlights of Sergio Martinez-Paul Williams II yet on YouTube? After all, it’s not like the thing hasn’t gotten incredible exposure already. It was on SportsCenter Saturday night. Today, it made #6 on SportsCenter’s list of top 10 plays of the weekend. They showed it on Around the Horn and […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — For someone who just got knocked out as frighteningly as one can get knocked out, Paul Williams didn’t sound like his spirit was broken. “We 1-1. Let’s do it again,” he said of his conqueror, middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, at the news conference after the fight Saturday. Meanwhile, Martinez’ team celebrated […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — One perfect left hand. It’s the kind you recognize when you see it, if you’ve seen anything like it before — the kind of punch from which the man on the other end of it won’t get up, not this time. It’s the kind that middleweight champion Sergio Martinez connected on […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Setup ain’t ideal for a live blog, so here’s your undercard report updating when time permits throughout the evening. And, after the main event, come on back for a report on that. In reverse chronological order: In a prospect-vs.-prospect showdown, welterweight Steve Upsher Chambers got an unpopular decision win over Bayan […]

Via ESPN man Dan Rafael’s targeting a return to the ring in March. Remember, his illness was supposedly career-threatening, and just a couple weeks ago, he said on Fight Camp 360 that he couldn’t fight, at the earliest, until he’d been symptom-free for three months — and as of that episode, he had symptoms that […]

Besides the above video, I’ve compiled all sorts of links for you for one of the most anticipated fights of 2010, Saturday’s rematch between middleweight champion Sergio Martinez and Paul Williams: a weird training video for Williams; Ring Life, featuring both men; assorted feature articles of high quality; what other boxing blogs are sayin’; and […]

Since David Haye first crashed the heavyweight scene, talk has centered around the Brit facing-off against a Klitschko brother, namely Ring champ Wladimir. Haye (25-1, 23 KOs) was originally slated to fight Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KOs) on June 20 of last year. But before the highly-anticipated heavyweight clash could take place in Germany, Haye […]

Both Danny Green and B.J. Flores went into their cruiserweight fight Wednesday with credibility problems: Danny Green because his last fights was so questionable that some bookies now decline to post exotic betting options for his fights; Flores because he’s talked some big talk and landed a gig on ESPN, without ever having done much. […]

Who’s next? That was the question surrounding Manny Pacquiao for many boxing fans Saturday night before the epinephrine-soaked cotton ball even coagulated the blood dripping from the deep gash under Antonio Margarito’s eye in their one-sided, yet entertaining, bout at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas. Pacquiao had reached even thinner air of boxing greatness with his […]

We’re sandwiched now by a few weekends of boxers who, like Manny Pacquiao, have somehow, some way tried to — or actually have — fought the best, most obvious opponent… and some who, like David Haye — one way or the other — haven’t fought the best, most obvious opponent. This is important stuff, friends. […]

After yet another stunning performance from Manny Pacquiao Saturday, there are only a few professional athletes today who have accomplished close to as much in their sports as Pacquiao has in his: Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Lance Armstrong, maybe one or two others. There are only a handful of athletes who are in his league […]

It was not to be a competitive fight. The bettors knew it. Most boxing fans knew it. Manny Pacquiao won every single round of his fight with Margarito, and only Pacquiao’s mercy prevented him from knocking out Margarito. It was at 150, a weight far from Pacquiao’s ideal, and yet he was so much better […]