Friday Night Fights on ESPN2 makes a much-needed shift this weekend in its matchmaking from "unwatchable dreck" to "as good as the program gets" with a bout headlined by Lamont Peterson vs. Kendall Holt, two junior welterweights with top-10 talent, both trying to reestablish themselves after long layoffs. No one's saying you ought to ignore […]

(David Price, left; Tony Thompson, right) Briton David Price returns to redesign the heavyweight skyline this weekend in a 10-round non-title bout against Washington D.C.’s condemned chimney stack Tony Thompson in Liverpool. The TNT-fisted Price has cantered through his first 15 starts as a professional; if his whiskers have felt a retaliatory punch in the […]

Following a drug test last year that found synthetic testosterone in his system, junior welterweight Lamont Peterson couldn't fight in Nevada until a public hearing on his license. Yet, this Friday, Peterson is boxing in his native District of Columbia sans such a hearing. It's the kind of thing that gets people to wondering: Why? […]

Is there any boxing figure more hit or miss on his jokes than Adrien Broner, the headlining act of the past weekend? Sometimes in post-fight interviews you get: "He was underwater like a… like a… neck bone." Other times in post-fight news conferences you get: "I want everyone to get their questions out. Because I […]

(October 30, 2012; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Professional boxer Floyd Mayweather watches the game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Los Angeles Lakers at the Staples Center. Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports) Major boxing news Tuesday: The biggest name in boxing in the United States and the country's highest-paid athlete in any sport, Floyd Mayweather, has signed […]

(Feb 16, 2013; Atlantic City, NJ, USA; Adrien Broner [red trunks] and Gavin Rees [blue/red trunks] trade punches during their 12 round lightweight bout at Boardwalk Hall. Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports) Rarely do you see a fighter win the first two rounds of a bout, as Gavin Rees did Saturday night on HBO against […]

“Tex Rickard, veteran promoter of boxing contests, today told the Staff Press the end of boxing in New York state is so near he can almost feel it. Even if Gov. Whitman, in the opinion of Rickard should suddenly relent in his avowed intention of crushing the game in this state, the sport has been […]

  I don’t have anything nice to say about this week’s boxing schedule. So the Emily Flake cartoon is quite appropriate. Stand by for the clever but devastating one liners. My problem this week (get used to the carping, there’s nothing good coming up for a while) is that there’s virtually nothing to watch but […]

(Chris Algieri, left, Winston Mathis, right; photo credit: Ed Diller, Star Boxing) Used to be, some of the people close to Chris Algieri would playfully tell him to get the hell out of the sport of boxing, like top trainer Robert Garcia, or else ask when he was going to quit, like his family. After […]

(Photo credit: Jason Cairnduff) If Barry McGuigan has a hint of Galileo about him this morning, then he can be forgiven. For, while it is unwise to put untiring faith behind anyone, anything in the hurt business, it is especially chancy to put such allegiance on record. In Carl Frampton, though, McGuigan has a boxer […]