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Weekend Afterthoughts, Featuring The Latest 24/7 Mayweather/Ortiz Episode, Next For Vitali Klitschko, Breidis Prescott As Trash Talking Champion And More

Every year he reemerges for a fight, I find that Floyd Mayweather’s routine gets more tedious at a quicker rate of speed. At first, I enjoy some of his vivid language, like recent entries “I’m gonna son ‘im” and “And motherfucker, I ain’t no junior.” The controversy ignited by his argument with his father was […]

Random Classics: Daniel Zaragoza Vs. Paul Banke I, II And III

It’s not as if boxing hasn’t had its share of male models, singers and handsome faces, but you wouldn’t generally expect a sport where guys wind up getting more facial cosmetic surgery than Joan Rivers to highlight a bunch of lookers. Cheekbones get shattered, noses wind up cartilage-free, scar tissue where cuts chronically open up […]

Jimmy Lange Is Entertaining

Jimmy Lange may not be the most skilled guy in the world, but he sure is exciting. For five and a half rounds, veteran journeyman junior middleweight Raul Munoz rocked him around the ring Saturday night at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA. Lange was slow, and looked to be confused by his smaller opponent’s […]

Quick Jabs: Back To The Bad Kind Of Arturo Gatti Drama; Mercito Gesta, Sparring Champion; The Latest Boxing Politician; More

Caught between a thorough review of this weekend’s action (the Weekend Afterthoughts column, running Monday) and gearing up for next weekend’s action (inaugural entry in our marathon Floyd Mayweather-Victor Ortiz coverage, running tonight), let’s clear the deck of some very, very thin list of goings-on in the past week that we haven’t gotten to yet. […]

Undercard Results For Yuriorkis Gamboa Vs. Daniel Ponce De Leon

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — This undercard for Yuriorkis Gamboa-Daniel Ponce De Leon, on paper, is nearly as insignificant as an undercard gets. But maybe it’ll produce some good action, if the opening bout is any indication. Angel Rios walked to the ring in full Apollo Creed-from-Rocky IV regalia, then proceeded to go to war with […]

Exclusive: Chad Dawson Parts Ways With Manny Steward For The Bernard Hopkins Fight, The Hall Of Fame Trainer Says

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — One fight after enlisting Emanuel Steward in his corner, top-ranked light heavyweight Chad Dawson won’t be working with the Hall of Fame trainer for the toughest fight of Dawson’s career: an October meeting with division champion Bernard Hopkins. Steward told The Queensberry Rules Friday that Dawson’s lawyer informed him two days […]

Manny Pacquiao: The Universe’s Questions, Answered

(Manny Pacquiao knocks out Ricky Hatton, 2009.) While typing something into Google about pound-for-pound boxing king and superstar Manny Pacquiao a while back — I was looking for an old fight of his, I do believe — autocomplete proposed something preposterous in the way that Google often does, based on the zany things people are […]

The Ring Magazine Shakes Up Its Leadership, Threatens Its Credibility

I wish that this was not so one-sided a post. But current and former officials with The Ring — a publication I revere, have worked for and am affiliated with, in a manner of speaking — haven’t provided their explanation. What we have is this: On Thursday, Eric Raskin and William Dettloff, contributing editor for […]

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