(Walton Prison in Liverpool, England, early 20th Century; photo credit: here) August 13th marks the day that Peter Allen was hanged at Walton Prison for his part in murdering John Alan West. Allen and accomplice Gwynne Evans were the last two state executions in 1964. More importantly, August 13th will also come to be significant […]

  If you’re a boxing fan, prepare to feel like a doting dad at a One Direction concert. After this week, there’ll be nothing for you here (at least not for a little while). But this week is a good one, with an HBO triple header, some high quality fights from Japan and the return […]

Green River and TQBR are in agreement: It's dry as a bone out there and will be for a few more weeks. There are some good scattered bouts floating around — I'm heading to Atlantic City next weekend for the middleweight clash between Daniel Geale and Darren Barker, to be aired on HBO, and it's […]

(via) If you know about us already and come around very often, you probably already know that TIME dubbed this site one of the top 25 blogs in the whole wide Internet this past week. (Thanks, TIME.) If you don't know much else about us, here are some things you should! Other big publications think […]

(Rustam Nugaev, left, Jose Hernandez, right; credit: Mario Serrano, Gary Shaw Productions) Continuing their recent run of competitive fights, ESPN2 put on a fun show from Cabazon, Calif. on Friday Night Fights. In the main event, Russian Rustam Nugaev (25-6-1, 15 KO) stopped Jose Hernandez (14-7-1, 6 KO) in the 5th round of a scheduled […]

(Deontay Wilder, left, Siarhei Liakhovich, right; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Beforehand, most people expected heavyweight prospect Deontay Wilder taking on faded ex-contender Siarhei Liakhovich on ShoBox would be ugly. I was in the minority: Wilder still was living up to his name as a wild, raw, untested fighter, and Liakhovich's recent losses were against good […]

"Russell unfazed by criticism," reads the recent RingTV headline about featherweight talent Gary Russell, Jr., and I believe he is. It would be impossible to go about his career the way he has if he cared what anyone thought, because the former Olympian and consensus 2011 Prospect of the Year has comported himself shamelessly since […]

Upon learning of George Groves’ plans to take on Carl Froch, the overwhelming reaction amongst the British contingent seemed to be one of joy. It was a childlike emotion for many, one that could be traced back as far as the early 1990s when British super middleweights regularly squared off in megafights commanding television audiences […]

Curtis Stevens has been pining for a showdown with middleweight monster Gennady Golovkin, and he did his part in making people want to see it with a 1st round Knockout of the Year candidate Saturday on NBC Sports Network. Stevens hurt Saul Roman immediately, and while Roman's not as sturdy as NBC Sports made him […]

There aren't any match-ups on the calendar quite as epic as the protagonist and antagonist of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! — nor the artwork that piece above (via, h/t) is based upon, the cover for Muhammad Ali Vs. Superman — but there are some awfully good ones. The men in the headline are involved, as are Adrien Broner, […]

The scores were all over the place for the judges assessing Javier Fortuna vs. Luis Franco on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights, which was fitting, considering how everyone else in the world had such wild scores. One judge saw it 99-91 for Franco; ESPN2's Teddy Atlas had it 99-91 Fortuna. The truth was somewhere in between, […]

That's your cover for the first book from David P. Greisman, which I can only heartily endorse. "But Tim," you say, "Aren't you buddies with Dave?" I am. I suppose that gives me a certain bias. But let's go back in time. Mr. Greisman and Mr. Starks are friends in part because we came to […]

Usually with this annual exercise that's modeled after what writers do in other sports — akin to, say, write-ups of "power conferences" for the NCAA — it's all spread out, with some bigger boxing divisions mixed with some smaller divisions at the top. Not this time. The highest-graded weight classes all inhabit one particular range, […]

Here’s a rabbit wearing a sombrero. Enjoy. The week’s boxing schedule is kind of low key, with a brace of shows on ESPN2 and NBC Sports Net with some mid-level names along with Polish heavyweight Tomasz Adamek. Let’s get straight to it. Javier Fortuna vs. Luis Franco, Friday, ESPN2, Miami Okla. Friday Night Fights continues […]