Measured against the HBO pay-per-view main event the same night, the Showtime main event pitting Saul Canelo Alvarez against Josesito Lopez comes up short. Measured even against one of its undercard fights, Jhonny Gonzalez-Daniel Ponce De Leon, it is also stubbier. And measured as a replacement fight for the various would-be Canelo opponents, it is […]

Seems like it has been ages, but it’s big fight time once again. Like we do for all the biggest bouts, the TQBR staff writers sat down to nut out our thoughts on the weekend’s boxing and pugilistic politics. The roundtable is virtual, since we’re in different corners of the globe, but the talk is […]

The trainer of light heavyweight champ Chad Dawson, “Iceman” John Scully, wrote an e-mail to me in light of my remarks here about whether he should’ve pulled Dawson out of the fight against Andre Ward last weekend and whether he gave Dawson the instruction between rounds that he needed to win. Scully also answered a […]

The climactic boxing match of 2012 arrives this Saturday when lineal middleweight champion Sergio Martinez faces Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. on HBO pay-per-view. Nothing — no Floyd Mayweather return, no Manny Pacquiao rematch — is likely to top Martinez-Chavez as a complete fight, a bout that has bad blood, a champion against arguably his top […]

This week’s boxing schedule is brought to you by the earliest known photo of men drinking beer. Which is exactly what TQBR plans to be doing this weekend, while watching some of the mountains of professional boxing being broadcast. At least those of us unlucky enough not to being going to Vegas to cover the […]

Sometimes boxing resembles that old series of Miller Lite commercials, where the rival factions take turns shouting at one another, “Great taste!”/”Less filling!” That’s what I like about this Eric Raskin column. It preaches the Miller Lite lesson, “Why not both?” I thought the two sides would stop shouting at each other after Andre Ward’s […]

(Lucas Matthysse does damage against Olusegun Ajose; photo credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) While HBO was airing an action fight undercard/boxing purist main event, Showtime was airing an undercard with a boxing technician-type on the undercard/bruising fight main event Saturday. The HBO card somewhat defied expectations. The Showtime card played out more according to script. Lucas […]

(Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., left; Sergio Martinez, right) There are plenty of people out there, this writer included, who won’t believe we will be seeing Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. fight Sergio Martinez until Michael Buffer makes it official on Sept. 15 with his signature spiel. It is a fight that has been years in the […]

(Tony Bellew, left; Edison Miranda, right) So that was summer. The heavens fell, top flight footballers — bumptious, bumbling millionaires unable to pass a ball — were put in their place by modestly paid Olympians and boxing lurched along in the doldrums save for a domestic showdown that managed to buck a trend in standardized […]

The photo shows a teenage “Bad” Chad Dawson leaning in from the left border while his co-conspirator, “Iceman” John Scully, leans in from the right. Their mischievous grins frame their handiwork — a sleeping victim of a shaving cream attack. It was taken about three years before Dawson first fought professionally. In an interview with […]