Amir Khan seems poised for a difficult evening on Saturday in Manchester, yet the man looking to topple him from his relatively lofty perch, Irishman Paul McCloskey, is just part of a multitude of problems stacked high atop his in-tray. Whilst the unheralded Dungiven man will be looking to put the Bolton youngster through a […]

In keeping with the three week old tradition of starting the weekly schedule with a more or less random internet meme, here’s poptart cat running to some mesmerising, gameboyish music. It has absolutely nothing to with this week’s boxing schedule, which is a little thin outside of the big shows on HBO and Showtime. On […]

This past weekend was the most fun I’ve had being wrong since forever. Not much of anybody in their right minds had Erik Morales being that competitive against Marcos Maidana several weight classes too high and years past any remnants of him looking like an elite boxer. Morales, aferward, said his dignity led him to […]

Welcome to the second edition of the TQBR Roundtable, where TQBR’s staff writers get together to discuss some of boxing’s issues of the day. I’d say that we get aggro, shout, scream and come to Internet-style blows, but it doesn’t really happen like that. We’re a civilised bunch. Instead, hopefully Gautham Nagesh, Tim Starks, Andrew […]

NEWARK – Kathy Duva of Main Events informed TQBR Saturday that the proposed 140-pound showdown between Zab “Super” Judah and Juan Manuel Marquez would headline an HBO pay-per-view on either July 30 or August 6. “(Richard Schaefer) is going to meet with Marquez to straighten out his stuff,” Duva said of the Golden Boy Promotions […]

NEWARK, N.J.–Heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek won an ugly contest with a paunchy Kevin McBride on Saturday at the Prudential Center to set up a showdown with champ Vitali Klitschko later this year. The 12-round decision was one of only two fights to go the distance on the lopsided Main Events card carried by Integrated Sports […]

There was greatness still in the legendary Erik Morales Saturday night, even if it wasn’t enough to overcome the mega-punching junior welterweight Marcos Maidana. Maidana won a majority decision over the aged Morales, but Morales — a 6:1 underdog — fought Maidana on even terms, and in so doing was some kind of emotional winner […]

Marcos Maidana peeled himself off the canvas, the recipient of a vicious body shot from Amir Khan – the type of punch that usually ends fight, a pulverizing liver shot. Maidana made it to the closing bell of the opening stanza, still grimacing in pain from the hard left he took moments earlier. From then […]

NEW YORK, N.Y.–Some misguided fans of professional boxing decry the amateur ranks as little more than prospects slapping and jabbing each other into oblivion. If anyone subscribing to that foolish notion happened to be part of the packed house at Friday night’s New York Daily News Golden Gloves Finals in the Theater at Madison Square […]

For the superstitious-minded, and for the bemusingly large contingent of folk who think Erik Morales has a realistic chance of upsetting junior welterweight Marcos Maidana, the events of Friday evening on ESPN2 and ShoBox have to be something like omens for what comes Saturday night. First, highly-touted middleweight prospect David Lemieux lost on Friday Night […]

First of all, let me register my displeasure that Jim Lampley doesn’t scream “Aaaaaiiii, Body!” on HBO, like Japanese commentators do whenever a bodyshot is landed. It would really spice things up. Second, wow. Way to lose in exactly the same way twice, Hozumi Hasegawa. This fight Friday was almost a carbon copy of his […]