Whenever my fist bleeds, I always lick the blood off it, grin at my enemy and resume combat. Get back in there, Nonito Donaire! At least, hopefully. There’s been no word that he did major damage to his left hand, which is the hand with which he usually does the most damage to others. It […]

(Wayne Kelly, with Tony Danza) He needed no gimmick and drew no attention to himself. It was modesty, perhaps, that overshadowed his merits, as his name was oft overlooked in casual discussions of the United States’ best officials. For veteran referee Wayne Kelly, who passed away last Wednesday due to heart attack at age 63, […]

(Photo via) Scott Quigg found himself resting on his face in the 4th round of his British junior featherweight title defence against Cwmbran challenger Jamie Arthur, yet the Bury starlet managed to react like the fighter of real quality he shows continuing signs of becoming in clambering up to stop his assailant in round 8. […]

Boxing lost one of its greats this week, as everyone knows by now. Angelo Dundee, who died at age 90, was one of the best few trainers ever to grace the game, and he did it all on as big a stage as you can manage, namely training Muhammad Ali. Others have already written or […]

Team Eloy Perez Moves Camp To SoCal In Prep For Adrien Broner With just three weeks to go before they make their arrival on the big stage, Team Eloy Perez has relocated their training camp to Oxnard from Oakland, Calif., according to assistant trainer Sam Garcia. The move is in preparation for his HBO debut […]

Middleweight Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr.’s career arc resembles that of a kiddie pop star exiting his teenage years: Once ridiculed by boxing’s grown-ups for his avid following’s disproportionate ratio to his actual talent, Chavez is now growing up and flirting with respectability. It took more than one album for Justin Timberlake to come around to […]

As Belfast’s Carl Frampton shimmers in the aftermath of another well executed hatchet job this past weekend, his domestic rival and newly appointed British king at junior featherweight, Scott Quigg, looks to tilt the spotlight back his way on Saturday against recently retired Welshman, Jamie Arthur. Quigg punched laser beams through Jason Booth in October […]

(image via) There have been times when Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto would have set my heart ablaze. May 5, 2012 is not one of those times; Cotto is now past his prime, and Cotto isn’t Manny Pacquiao, THE opponent that Mayweather he should have been fighting for the past two-plus years but hasn’t. […]

The early aughts saw champions-in-the-making Victor Ortiz, Steven Luevano, and Brandon Rios all begin their ascent up the pro ranks, yet it was fellow southern Californian Jose Miguel Aguiniga who many experts predicted would first reach the peak. In boxing, a fighter is not always the sum of his physical parts. Such was the case […]

Floyd Mayweather, Jr., tech company investor. He’s perfectly suited for the role. We already know how he likes to overhype how much money he’s worth. (via, h/t Bloguin’s Ben Koo) In this edition of Quick Jabs, besides that and the stuff in the headline, we examine whether Victor Ortiz is banging Vanessa Bryant; the Nonito […]

Trainer Hunter Begins Building Stable In The Bay Northern California Trainer of the Year Virgil Hunter had a banner year in 2011, leading Oakland, Calif.-based super middleweight champion Andre Ward to victory in the inaugural Super Six World Boxing Classic. Ward compiled wins against Arthur Abraham in the semifinals and followed it up with a […]