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(Gabriel Rosado pops Sechew Powell in his last appearance on NBC Sports) The good and the bad about sanctioning bodies and eliminators co-exist in the upcoming junior middleweight eliminator that takes place on Sept. 21 between Gabriel Rosado and Charles Whittaker, which will air on NBC Sports. First, the bad. While it is true that […]

On Sept. 15, dueling cards between promotional giants Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions take place just a few miles away from each other in Las Vegas. Of the plethora of intriguing undercard bouts, perhaps the most interesting is one that isn’t even slated to make TV, a junior middleweight bout between unbeaten John Jackson […]

Little Mario Rodriguez is having himself a very fine 2012. First he took out Gilberto Keb Baas, who recently had lost to Adrian Hernandez but still was a bigger name than anyone Rodriguez had faced. Then, this weekend, little Mario scored a super upset stoppage win over Nkosinathi Joyi, considered the best man at 105 […]

Who cares if that picture is real? I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t contemplate the scenario. Someone had to go to the trouble of opening a Word file, typing the blurb, blowing up the font and finally sticking it with some tape to the window and taking a picture, rather […]

A Pole, a Kazakhstani, a Puerto Rican and a Ukranian walk into a casino in upstate New York, and… There’s no punchline to that, actually. And whatever the odd confluence of circumstances bringing the four men together at Verona’s Turning Stone Resort & Casino, there’s nothing funny about the main event on HBO Saturday when […]

Brooklyn is the epicenter of skateboards, radical bicycle modification, off-beat motorcycle clubs, every cuisine on Earth and all variations thereof. It’s the locus for international dance and performance art, has six times as many yoga studios as Subway franchises, and more tattoo parlors than plumbers. And now it has big-time professional boxing. Can boxing make […]

It is the central paradox of the Klitschko brothers in the United States that so many fans declare so frequently their disdain for the style in which the brothers fight, yet every time a Klitschko appears on HBO of late he does respectable to excellent ratings. Or maybe it’s not a pardox at all. Maybe […]

(Oscar Godoy, left, and San Francisco’s Richard Hargraves, right, weighed in Wednesday for their fight in San Diego on Thursday at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel; photo courtesy Mario Ortega Jr., 15rounds.com) San Francisco’s Hargraves Ready For Godoy in Stiff Four-Rounder in San Diego San Francisco welterweight Richard Hargraves (3-0-1, 2 KOs) steps up his […]

One of the more common debates I have with fellow boxing fans and writers is how much boxing should be viewed on the continuum of sports, entertainment and business. My own view is that it’s not an either/or thing. Sports are entertainment, and entertainment is a business, and what entertains some people about a sport […]