Business cat really has nothing to do with this blog post. I’m just trying to cement our reputation as the coolest hipster nerds on the boxing block. There’s nothing on that’s super compelling, but there are certainly some interesting fights. Along with those you’ve got one of your garden variety Mexican TV mismatches and some […]

It’s been nearly a year since the first edition of grading the promoters. A lot has changed in the professional boxing landscape since May 2010, so it’s probably time we gave the promoters some new report cards. Promoters aren’t the nicest kids on the block, but they’re a big part of how the sport functions. […]

Welcome to the inaugural TQBR Roundtable, where your favorite TQBR staff writers will express their thoughts and opinions on select current topics in boxing in their own inimitable way. Disagreements will be had, punches will be exchanged, and good times will be enjoyed by all. This edition’s participants include Andrew Harrison, Paul Kelly, Alex McClintock, […]

Look at that adorable tiny poster for Vitali Klitschko-Odlanier Solis. This is how a blogger keeps himself amused, apparently: shrinking fight posters super small for no other reason than because he hasn’t done it before. This weekend of boxing is a mile wide and an inch deep, on average, with a couple peaks sticking up […]

In and of itself, Golden Boy Promotions’ announcement Wednesday that is has signed one of the world’s best fighters, bantamweight Nonito Donaire, would constitute major news: The promotional whereabouts of a superstar fully coming into his own always counts as a big story. But when paired with the fact that Donaire had been (and might […]

There’s Antonio Margarito at the press conference after Miguel Cotto stopped Ricardo Mayorga this weekend. The body language isn’t terrific. Friend of the site JasonTO came up with this rage comic to illustrate the situation: Since Margarito is probably next for Cotto, that seems like a good enough intro into this edition of Weekend Afterthoughts. […]

(The new pound-for-pound king? Credit: Teddy Blackburn, DBE) Almost every other month since forever, this site’s list of the best fighters in the world has placed Manny Pacquiao at #1 and cautioned routinely that almost no matter what he does, Pacquiao’s spot is secure because nobody beneath him is doing enough to challenge for the […]

(Sergio Martinez at the press conference with adviser Sampson Lewkowicz and bullying victim Monique McClain, whose cause he has championed; picture by friend of the site nazarioz) MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — Once more, coming off another sterling, greatness-confirming win, there’s little sense of what is next for the middleweight champion of the world. There’s no doubt […]

(The middleweight champion remains just that; photo by friend of the site nazarioz) MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — The (accurate) thinking was that Serhiy Dzinziruk was a boxer who was hard to look good against, but then, he hadn’t fought anyone like Sergio Martinez, because there’s hardly anybody — if anyone — as good as Martinez. Martinez […]

MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — It’s never a good thing when you go to a weigh-in and nearly end up with balls across the nose. I’ll explain what I mean in a minute. But it was still a very productive event that my crew David P. Greisman of BoxingScene and friend of the site nazarioz attended, the […]