Goodnight, Samuel Peter. Outta nowhere, heavyweight prospect — and now, arguably, contender — Robert Helenius put you to sleep and maybe tucked your career into bed, wrapped it up like a burrito, kissed it on the forehead and turned off the lights. Helenius… I don’t know what to make of him. RingTV’s Doug Fischer is […]

It certainly started like a Fight of the Year candidate, this flyweight brawl Saturday between Hernan “Tyson” Marquez and Luis “El Nica” Concepcion, with traded knockdowns and startling shifts in momentum. But after the 4th round, Marquez took firm control and Concepcion’s belief in the superiority of his own power faded, rendering him more tactical […]

For a decade or so, Ivan Calderon has ruled the tiniest weight classes, the last several years by skating on the edge of disaster only to tap his reserves of exceptional skill to compensate for slowing speed and non-existent power. Last year, Giovani Segura knocked him out to end his junior flyweight reign. Saturday night, […]

Hey, you. It’s April Fool’s Day. It’s also the first uh da month, the traditional day of Open Thread. You got your peanut butter on my chocolate! No, you got YOUR chocolate on MY peanut butter! Let’s try and find some synergy betwixt these two things, just to start things off. What’s the most believable […]

The travails of Levenshulme lightweight John Murray and his seemingly never-ending quest to secure a major date against a world class opponent have been well documented. One would be hard pressed to find a press cutting of late which failed to expound upon his discontentment, frustration and lament at being left to rust away in […]

By now this video of a press conference scuffle this week between Bernard Hopkins and Jean Pascal ought to have been seen by plenty, and for a fight of this size, it got some rare attention out there in the mainstream. One of the things that makes it neat how differently everyone has looked at […]

I very much fear the Antonio Escalante ride is over, as of this past weekend. The featherweight has been in good fight after good fight and had elevated himself to real contender, but taking a punch never was one of his strongest points and defense absolutely was his weakest point, so you put two and […]

When Paul McCloskey challenges Amir Khan for the WBA junior welterweight title next month in Manchester he’ll do so as a prohibitive underdog, but then that isn’t anything new for an Irish fighting man. Not since the days of “Rinty” Monaghan has a boxer from the Emerald Isle taken to the road to haggle with […]

At the legendary Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, Yuriorkis Gamboa lived up to his reputation as one of the most exciting fighters in the world, scoring five knockdowns and stopping Jorge Solis in spectacular fashion. On the undercard, Mikey Garcia struggled at times but came on strong in the later rounds, dropping Matt Remillard three […]

I think that’s the only Stone Temple Pilots song I like, since most of the rest of them are ripoffs of assorted grunge bands and even, once, The Rolling Stones. It’s not a band I’d want to be the basis of any questions about my journalistic integrity. Yet, a couple weeks ago, Steve Kim wrote […]