This week’s ShoBox action from Chumash Casino wound up being about as thrilling as its brief footnote in our man Alex McClintock’s boxing schedule suggested — that is to say, not all that thrilling, as two unbeaten fighters staved off blemishes on their records by relatively wide scores, and without much competitive action. In the […]

I used to watch “Press Your Luck” when I was younger, but I only recently learned of the Michael Larson “scandal.” Fascinating stuff. It relates to boxing matches in the works because beep-boop-beep-bop-beep is how it goes until it stops, and hopefully you don’t get a Whammy. After an early 2012 filled with Whammys, there […]

(Kevin Mitchell, left; Ricky Burns, right) Britain’s best match-up of the year takes place Saturday, as cockney wrong ‘un Kevin Mitchell invades Glasgow to face Scotland’s smiling assassin, Ricky Burns. The Dear Green Place isn’t an ideal pit-stop for a fighter with a propensity for swimming at the bottom of a bottle. Nevertheless, Mitchell, who pissed […]

It’s a simple formula. Two fighters face off over a table. They sit backwards on aluminum chairs and perform a strange good cop/bad cop parody routine. Both try to be the bad cop. It’s HBO’s Max Kellerman, also astraddle his seat, who’s the good cop. Or at least the goofy cop. When the recipe works, […]

(Photo credit: Chris Farina,Top Rank) LAS VEGAS — For 30 minutes, it looked like a fight that needed no return bout. Three minutes later, the word most thrown around in the post-fight press conference was “rematch.” That was the kind of predictable then surprising fight that Sergio Martinez’s victory over Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. turned […]

(Photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) LAS VEGAS — Despite the ribbing and teasing about the veracity of an announced sell out , most seats were occupied and spectators witnessed a nice night of fights courtesy of Showtime and Golden Boy Promotions at the MGM Grand Garden Arena tonight. But the man who drove the attendance up […]

No sooner had Ricky Hatton officially announced the worst kept secret in British boxing on Friday (he’s baaaaaacckkk), punters (who had obviously left cookies in the Manchester MEN Arena ticketing system) began receiving e-mails inviting them to be there for the reboot on Nov. 24 (never mind the fact that Hatton hasn’t as yet sourced an […]

Being tricky there in the headline. “Wha wha wha wha?” you might be asking yourself, “Did I miss the big fights, thinking they were on Saturday when really they were on Friday?” You did not. It’s just that there’s already talk about what might happen next for some of this evening’s contestants. In this relatively […]

(Saul Alvarez, left, at his weigh-in with Josesito Lopez, right; photo credit Tom Casino, Showtime) Saturday night in Las Vegas, on the weekend of Mexican Independence Day, two major fight cards take place 16 miles apart as Top Rank and Golden Boy go head-to-head on HBO pay-per-view and Showtime respectively. Top Rank has claimed that […]

Floyd Mayweather might be Manny Pacquiao’s rival for the honor of best boxer in the world and biggest boxing superstar in the world, but there’s no question who his biggest rival is in the ring: Juan Manuel Marquez, who has given him 36 rounds of hell dating back to 2004. And now they’ll meet for […]

It’s the politically silly season, so it’s truly, honestly possible to find a real-life painting like this one, with President Obama, Tupac Shakur and Muhammad Ali riding horses together in some imaginary landscape of the soul. As usual, political imagery and links do no imply endorsement. But when friend of the site Mike C. snapped […]