One of the more interesting things about the Danny Garcia vs. Zab Judah bout this weekend, is that if you were to ask fans at random, you’d get varying answers as to whether or not the fight itself is all that interesting. In many sporting realms, rivalries can serve to add interest to what is […]

The middleweight champion of the world is back. It is both a glad and potentially dangerous occasion, the return Saturday of Sergio Martinez not only to the ring, not only to HBO, but to his native Argentina, where he's become an athlete worthy of presidential hobnobbing. Martinez is resuming his reign coming off the richest […]

Tyson Fury, the Manchester traveller who represents Ireland as a boxer, delivered such a ham-handed performance on his American debut over the past weekend that it felt almost exploitative. It was an indecorous display that left those deemed associates through living in the same geographical area blushing on his behalf. It felt like packing your […]

Hold up. Heeeeeey…. Hope you're ready for the next episode. Patrick Connor of this here website and James Foley of that there Bad Left Hook website are back with their boxing radio talking after a well-received and well-listened to debut. They discuss the weekend that was and the weekend that will be. Go consume it […]

(Nathan Cleverly, right, lets his hands go) If Nathan Cleverly had been hoping to stake his claim for a tutorial with the old master at light heavyweight, Bernard Hopkins, then he could probably have done with looking a tad less unruly than he eventually managed in shutting out Robin Krasniqi on Saturday on Epix. Cleverly, […]

(Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, right, punches Austin Trout; photo credit: Showtime) “Canelo will be here for a long time,” said junior middleweight Saul Alvarez after defeating Austin Trout in San Antonio on Showtime. It’s hard to disagree with him, despite the third person athlete's tic. Canelo by no means destroyed all the doubts over his superstar […]

(Tyson Fury, left, tries to connect on Steve Cunningham) Steve “USS” Cunningham had chided Tyson Fury for being more like a one-man talk-show than a fighter before their NBC televised heavyweight clash at The Theatre in Madison Square Garden, New York, on Saturday. After an extreme yet strangely enthralling episode, Fury came across more Jerry […]

On April 20, Steve “USS” Cunningham will port in New York City to welcome England’s Tyson Fury across the pond and into the historic realm of Madison Square Garden. The 12-round heavyweight bout is the 2013 debut of boxing programming on basic NBC. Cunningham (25-5, 12 KOs), a career cruiserweight until two contests ago, returns […]

(photo credit: Stephanie Trapp, Showtime) It’s sad that the best fighting the best is rare enough an occurrence in modern boxing that it warrants special note. But it’s great that two such match-ups will occur within a week of one another on U.S. TV without the need for fans to shell out for a pay-per-view. […]

Spooky. Either Top Rank is listening to me, or I'm beginning to think like that promotional company, because here's a series of fights I recently suggested: Manny Pacquiao-Mike Alvarado; Juan Manuel Marquez-Timothy Bradley; and Brandon Rios-Ruslan Provodnikov. Two of the three, both at welterweight, now appear very likely — Pacquiao-Alvarado for October or November, and […]

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