Sometimes being a boxing fan is like being a pizza enthusiast. Once in a while you’ll get an amazing pizza, but even an average pizza is still, y’know, pizza. That’s what this week is like. There’s nothing superlative, but there’s cheese and sauce and it’s all pretty good. Are you getting this extended metaphor? I […]

(Edwin Rodriguez raises his arms in victory after defeating Denis Grachev quickly; photo credit: Ed Mulholland/USA Today Sports) Adventure, excitement… A jedi might crave not those things, but boxing fans do. Unfortunately this July hasn’t quite been the month to provide said adventues or excitement — at least not on a very high level, for […]

After an 11-day trip to Japan, I've returned from the East, where I saw no sign of Takashi Uchiyama or Hozumi Hasegawa but got an eyeful of sumo. First off, it was way cool. But witnessing a combat sport about which I knew very little got me to comparing it to boxing. In sumo wrestling, […]

(Kell Brook, right, pounds Carson Jones) Kell Brook beat the living daylights out of rock-solid Carson Jones at Hull’s Craven Park on Saturday. The Sheffield marksman, 27, pounded the indomitable visitor with piercing jabs and chopping right hands that repeatedly span the American’s head around as though it were fixed to a swivel. Somehow, Jones, […]

(Left to right: Luke Campbell, Kell Brook and Tommy Coyle) Olympic gold medalist Luke Campbell makes his professional debut on Saturday at the home of Hull Kingston Rovers on Humberside. Kell Brook, 29-0 (17), and Carson Jones, 35-9-3 (25), headline alongside him while Lee Selby, Rocky Fielding, Anthony Ogogo, Curtis Woodhouse and John Ryder add padding to […]

High drama is built into boxing, so it’s hardly surprising that the sweet science has had a long and profitable association with documentary film. We’re not talking about the boxing infomercials you see on cable television, either (though they are strangely mesmerising). Leon Gast’s Academy Award winning When We Were Kings is the most obvious specimen […]

For a sport ensconced in the visceral, bound up with the most primitive forms of human interaction, professional prizefighting comes with a surprisingly lengthy set of criteria for those wishing to get ahead. Its participants are tacitly expected to tick a range of boxes if they are to succeed, with the chosen few ushered smoothly […]

(David Price, left, absorbs a right hand from Tony Thompson in their rematch; photo credit: Peter Byrne/AP) What’s a boxing fan to do after a slower-than-wanted weekend followed by a week without much notable action? Why, listen to Queensberry Rules Radio, of course. Sally forth with your boxing psychosis, and join James Foley of Bad […]

(Tony Thompson, left, wallops David Price, right) American heavyweight Tony Thompson hauled himself off the canvas to score a second consecutive TKO over David Price on Saturday – this time halting the British and Commonwealth champion on his feet with a cannonade in round 5. Thompson had declared pre-fight that he intended to walk straight […]

Cinephiles and film buffs have, especially in recent years, lamented the retelling and rehashing of old stories — especially the “grasping at straws” attempts to inject new life into a tale that seemed to be concisely summed up the first time. In “An Evening With Kevin Smith,” the director related an anecdote about being approached […]

(David Price, left, Tony Thompson, right)  Lennox Lewis, a buoy for boxers who have succumbed to a one-punch knockout, represents hope for ephemeral heavyweight sensation David Price. Lewis famously overturned Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman after the American twosome had put him in the mire with startling exhibitions of stuck in the mud. It was […]

(May 18, 2013; Atlantic City, NJ, USA; Lucas Matthysse celebrates after his victory over Lamont Peterson [not pictured] in their welterweight bout at Boardwalk Hall. Matthysse won via 3rd round TKO. Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) We've got two new top-20 pound-for-pounders, movement from people exiting and movement from at least one more noteworthy win […]

(Gennady Golovkin, left, ends Matthew Macklin’s night with a body shot; photo credit: Joe Camporeale/USA Today) The boxing world is still clutching its collective liver after Gennady Golovkin’s body shot knockout over Matthew Macklin last weekend, but TQBR Radio beat the count and returns this week with plenty more boxing discussion. This week, Bad Left […]