(The fateful moment between Abraham and Dirrell?) This is Super depressing. The Super Six lost another member of its original lineup Thursday when Andre Dirrell pulled out of the super middleweight tourney, citing an injury. When after his savage knockout loss the tournament lost Jermain Taylor, who never should have been there to begin with, […]

Boxing is not a sport whose participants are known for their sense of style. For every Chris Eubank or Oscar De La Hoya, there are a thousand bemulleted and corn rowed RJJ dressalikes. Maybe it’s a function of the sport’s working class roots. Maybe getting punched in the head leads to poor choices at the […]

BOOM. That’s Manny Pacquiao’s latest Nike ad, the first advertisement featuring him in the United States that I know of, and it’s good exposure for both the pound-for-pound king and our sport. Another ad in the “BOOM” series features Rick Ross. So, now, in America, Manny Pacquiao = Rick Ross. Not bad, Pacman. Who wants […]

I’m not big on namecalling, but you are a jerkface if you are one of the jerkface jerky weird weirdos looking for any excuse to crap on the Super Six tournament that you can. Here Showtime has pulled a rabbit out of its hat to keep the tournament going, and it was already a miracle […]

If you think boxing has become a crazy, convoluted, beautiful mess only in the last 25 years, Hank Schwartz has a story to tell you. When Don King was only a year or two out of a prison cell and Oscar De La Hoya hadn’t taken his first breath, Brooklyn-born telecommunications executive Schwartz arguably was […]

It’s a glorious weekend of boxing not because of the quality bouts (although there are a handful) but because three boxers with names like those in the headline, who also matter, are all in action. That’s not exactly true; I take it back. Flyweight champion Pongsaklek Wonjongkam apparently isn’t fighting until Oct. 8, despite ESPN’s listing. […]

Yesterday, Oscar De La Hoya made a splash with his bold — in multiple senses of the word — remarks about his aims for worldwide domination of all things boxing, BWAHAHAHAHA. That last part of the sentence was an exaggeration; he didn’t cackle diabolically, or if he did, it didn’t make the transcript. But he […]

Turn that frown upside down, kiddo. Showtime’s super middleweight tournament is back on solid footing, with Andre Ward-Andre Dirrell and Arthur Abraham-Carl Froch booked for Nov. 27 and, for some inside-baseball reasons, Allan Green staying in the tourney against someone or the other, giving the winner of that bout a knockout’s chance of advancing to […]

About the worst thing anyone can do when trying to win the current version of TQBR Prediction Game is to be someone who had won an earlier version of TQBR Prediction Game. Something about being inducted into the Hall of Champions makes just about everyone go on a miserable prediction streak or flat stop playing. […]