WASHINGTON, D.C.–The phenomenon that is Manny Pacquiao arrived on the Hill Tuesday morning, offering fight fans here hope our sport won’t linger on the fringes of the mainstream sports scene much longer. Even the security guards at the Capitol, by now used to witnessing all manners of celebs and foreign dignitaries traipsing through their halls, were […]

Marco Antonio Barrera looked semi-decent in stopping Jose Arias in the 2nd round of their junior welterweight encounter in Guadalajara, Mexico on Saturday night. Unfortunately for Barrera, most boxers are not 43-year-olds with padded Costa Rican records. The outcome of the fight was never in doubt, with Barrera (67-7, 44 KOs) putting Arias (15-2, 9 […]

Technique was the deciding factor in Liverpool this evening — the main difference between Anthony Crolla achieving his boyhood dream and John Watson being left crumpled on the canvas with an oxygen mask strapped to his face. In terms of effort, drive, heart and grit, neither man was left wanting in a high octane battle […]

Here’s how it went down Saturday in Germany: The idea for Arthur Abraham was to tune-up after two consecutive losses before going into the semifinals of Showtime’s super middleweight tournament, and as such this outcome had to be a let down. Stjepan Bozic injured his hand when he threw a punch that connected on Abraham’s […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Made the trek from Northern N.J. to glorious Atlantic City, home of Nucky Thompson, for The New Generation, ShoBox, from Bally’s Casino. That meant plenty of trophy girls at ringside. One of the better prospects in the sport, super bantamweight Rico Ramos, took another step forward, defeating Alejandro Valdez over 10 […]

You’ll get a more detailed post from Mike Coppinger on the ShoBox card Friday soon enough, and he was ringside in Atlantic City so his account will be better than mine. But for now here’s what went down broadly on both ShoBox and Friday Night Fights: In the ESPN2 headliner in Montreal, welterweight Antonin Decarie […]

Never thought I’d see those two with their arms around each other. (Jamie Foxx is a throw-in on the deal; he serenaded them with some Marvin Gaye, some Luther Vandross and a little Anita. The idea was to set the party off right.) By all accounts the reunion of Bob Arum and the boxer he […]

NEW YORK – Just another Broadway Boxing at BB Kings in Times Square in the heart of New York City. Lou DiBella downing drinks. Scores strippers as the ring card girls. And of course, nowhere to sit or stand. Alas, on to the action. In the opening bout Wednesday evening, newly-signed Dibella fighter, Allan Benitez […]

I’m not going to go all Troy McClure on you and tell you what you might know me from. Instead I’ll go all Ron Burgundy and just assume you know me because, well, I’m kind of a big deal. And now that I’m done kissing my own ass, it’s time to kiss someone else’s. The […]

“Through fortuitous coincidence, [Ray] Leonard, [Marvin] Hagler, [Thomas] Hearns, and [Roberto] Duran matured into greatness in an era in which other sports seemingly conspired to back away and allow boxing to approach the prominence it had enjoyed in the days before baseball and football overtook it in the public consciousness: Major League Baseball experienced debilitating […]