As befits the latest installment of ESPN’s acclaimed 30 For 30 series, or any boxing documentary if you’re really feeling facetious, “No Mas,” (debuting Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET) is anachronistic from the get go. From the opening shots of Ray Leonard’s ageless torso as he pounds the heavy bag in his home gym, to […]

(Vasyl Lomachenko, above, Jose Ramirez, below; credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) These are the results for the three main undercard fights to support the main event of Juan Manuel Marquez and Timothy Bradley on HBO pay-per-view: In the chief supporting bout, Mexico's Orlando Salido (40-12-2, 27 KO) knocked out Puerto Rico's Orlando Cruz (20-3-1, 10 […]

Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Timothy Bradley Saturday on HBO pay-per-view is a match-up spilling over with danger beyond recompense, and danger of the drool-worthy and bitter variety alike. If only we could mandate by law that boxers have chips on their shoulders of the boulder size Marquez and Bradley do, where more money is on […]

What happens when you get six boxing writers together to talk about Tim Bradley vs. Juan Manuel Marquez Saturday on HBO pay-per-view? An outpouring of man love for “Dinamita,” pretty much pretty much (though not from Andrew Harrison, who has some questions about the source of the 40-year-old Mexican’s youthful vitality). We’ve convened our metaphorical […]

“Boxing doesn’t owe us; we owe it.” “Boxing is tainted,” said Floyd Mayweather a few weeks ago. “There are too many belts, too many champions.” Anyone at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on September 14th would have noticed an Elvis-worthy display case featuring Mayweather’s robes, gloves, and boots from past bouts. Several acronym-emblazoned “championship” […]

You seen that one before? Maybe even in this space? Memory does not serve. It's from "Dancers Among Us," a series of photographs by Jordan Matter, recently the subject of a sequel, "Athletes Among Us." Both are beautiful. No word on whether there's a boxer in the "Athletes Among Us," but I'm guessing not, because […]

Put up your tentacles! It's time for a rumble at the bottom of the sea, cephalopods and crustaceans. (via) We've got some catching up to do in Quickjabstown. Some of it will revisit the weekend prior to last, some of it will be about Floyd Mayweather hanging out with other celebrities, some of it will […]

There is a phrase the Japanese use to describe their most powerful works of art, an essence that seems to flow through certain prominent postwar novels and films, and is epitomised in nature by the cherry blossom that blooms so spectacularly for a just few short days a year. Mono no aware, roughly translated as […]

Usually we start the week’s boxing schedule off with a random, non-boxing piece of media from the Internet (via), but the above Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling program was too cool not to feature. I guess that means we can jump right into the week’s fights, since we’re already talking boxing. The main event is […]

(When Miguel Cotto stopped Delvin Rodriguez, the above Mark Morrison tune may or may not have become TQBR Radio’s official anthem) Miguel Cotto is a mack, in every sense of the word. We think. But it’s possible we here at TQBR don’t really understand the hip lingo today’s kids are using. So we’ll just say […]

Did you see heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko Saturday? Then you very well might have been bored! Maybe you saw lightweight Terence Crawford, and were more bored by him instead. Maybe you were bored by neither. All of these outcomes are possible. That's because not all "boring" fighters are created equal. And not all viewers perceive […]

(Miguel Cotto, standing, Delvin Rodriguez, falling; photo credit: Chris Farina, Top Rank) Miguel Cotto salvaged an action-free HBO card in the main event Saturday with a throwback performance against Delvin Rodriguez, electrifying the audience in Orlando, Fla. via the kind of bodypunching that drew cringes of sympathy and via the kind of aggression that left […]