Often, nostalgic memories are colored by a rose lense that distorts just how much better things were, once upon a time. If any boxers today approach that warped standard of how they used to make 'em in the good ol' days and don't anymore, one of them has to be featherweight Abner Mares, fighting this […]

(Pre-psychotic breakdown Amanda Bynes driving and texting, possibly about this week’s episode of TQBR Radio; photo credit: David Tonnessen, PacificCoastNews.com) There’s just something about Queensberry Rules Radio that makes people want to break the law and text about it — at dinner, at bar mitzvahs, even while driving, like our friend Amanda up there. But […]

Daniel Jacobs saw blood and went in for the kill. Only the blood he saw was his own: Cut in the 3rd round by Giovanni Lorenzo, Jacobs went after the toughest test of his comeback from cancer and landed a left-right combo to finish off a man who had never been stopped before. It was […]

Takashi Miura-Sergio Thompson was the least heralded of this past weekend's unending string of enthralling boxing matches, so make sure you catch up on it above if you haven't already for a three-knockdown donnybrook. It won't do much to breathe life into the comatose junior lightweight division, since Miura didn't exactly convince as a long-lasting […]

There is no other contest that man has devised that so embraces truth; no sport, no game, no trial or competition so revels in the black and white of honesty than that of prizefighting. In boxing the truth is everything. As a man steps into the ring he is only faced with honesty — honesty […]

I know it’s difficult to believe, but there is a panda somewhere in that photograph. “Why is the boxing schedule headed by a panda?” you may ask. Well, it’s all to do with junior lightweight Teon Kennedy’s fight on Saturday, which is being broadcast by an online channel called pandafeed.tv. Lower level boxing shows are their […]

Stephen Smith snuffed out Gary Buckland with a grisly right uppercut on the Nathan Cleverly-Sergey Kovalev undercard in Cardiff. Smith, a rank outsider, lured his forward-pressing foe into a corner in round five before dipping his right shoulder like a centre forward moving on his marker and delivering a fight-ending hammer blow inside of Buckland’s […]

ATLANTIC CITY — There was so much beforehand that made so little sense about Aussie Daniel Geale and Brit Darren Barker fighting in A.C., but that was then and this is now. Now, anyone watching this middleweight battle from Revel or at home on HBO is a happy, happy person. In the end, Barker won […]

ATLANTIC CITY — The highlight of the HBO undercard is the broadcast of the light heavyweight clash between Nathan Cleverly and Sergey Kovalav, already covered here. That leaves the other highlights as junior featherweight contender Jhonatan Romero vs. Kiko Martinez, also televised on HBO, and once-beaten junior welterweight prospect Thomas Dulorme (fighting at a catchweight […]

This is your non-spoiler post for the HBO light heavyweight bout between Sergey Kovalev and Nathan Cleverly. If you want to wait until 9:45 p.m. to watch the fight live, read no further. SERGEY KOVALEV-NATHAN CLEVERLY I was about 95 percent sold on Kovalev before Saturday. I'm 100 percent after watching him maul Cleverly, an […]

There was a kaleidoscopic quality to Friday Night Fights this week, where it was impossible to know at any given moment who was up and who was down, and where the cylinder would stop twisting, nobody knew. The men who came out on the winning end of the stellar ESPN2 card, one of the finest […]

ATLANTIC CITY — Being at The Revel makes me feel like I'm hardly in Atlantic City; it's a classy, modernly decorated joint, with none of the general feel of sleaze or chintz that is part of A.C.'s charm and simultaneously to its detriment. At the weigh-in at The Revel for Saturday's HBO middleweight main event […]

Now I'm starting to get worried. One week ago, at a one-month mandatory weigh-in, Canelo Alvarez was very cut at 166.8, as you can see. At the same weigh-in for Austin Trout, he was actually lighter. Here's the problem: He has to get a pound and a half lighter than he was for Trout, down […]

Every other year, Australia and England meet in the world of cricket for a series known as the Ashes. It's going on now, actually, and the two countries play for an urn full of the ashes of the stumps from the first time Australia beat its colonial masters at home, which England burned because they […]

1. Derry Mathews vs. Curtis Woodhouse (Dave Coldwell, left; Curtis Woodhouse, right) Often, great matchmaking verges on the sadistic. In a lightweight melee that all but guarantees periwinkle shiners and broken bones, emerging promoter Dave Coldwell (in tandem with Eddie Hearn) pits together cult heroes on Sept. 21 at the Liverpool Olympia. Driffield’s Woodhouse, a […]