(Barry Hunter, left; Lamont Peterson, right) Before Lamont Peterson fought Dierry Jean last month, all of the chatter was about was about whether there was enough left of the past, pre-Lucas Matthysse knockout version of Peterson. A few weeks later, now that Peterson has answered that chatter definitively with a sharp, entertaining performance in his […]

(via) If you ever get the chance to fly into the Cote D’Azur airport in the off-season, try to glance down as you’re coming in and take note of all that Mediterranean water stretching out toward the horizon, and all those cheerful looking palm trees on the shore, and yes, the Alps there too somehow, […]

(Via the San Diego Union) The state of California enjoyed a passionate, on again, off again love affair with prizefighting, which was declared illegal, banned, re-allowed and compromised upon various times in every major Golden State city between 1900 and 1910. When boxing’s popularity would peak, many fights were contested over only a few rounds, […]

[Sep 14, 2013; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Danny Garcia (red gloves) and Lucas Matthysse battle during their junior welterweight fight at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports] Floyd Mayweather sits alone atop boxing, its best and richest fighter, his crown refurbished after a brief flirtation with the threat of dethronement posed by […]

  I know everybody told you the schedule is sparse this week, but there are actually some really good fights. I know, I was as shocked as these lions. Still, there's not much point in going through our normal format, since there's not a huge number of fights. On Wednesday there's a streaming card from Montreal on something called PunchingGrace.com. Do […]

(Pictured above: concentrated pheromones, also known as “The FaceLube Display Case”; via) When the boxing schedule is lacking and you need a pick-me-up, Queensberry Rules Radio will be the arborist to your Victor Ortiz. We know all about the science of you, and we will not hesitate to cater to your needs every so often. […]

Watching ESPN’s Friday Night Fights, we all had a realisation: Dusty Hernandez-Harrison doesn’t have a bad tattoo. Dusty Hernandez-Harrison has the worst tattoo. And it’s not like other boxers aren’t vying for the dubious honour. As TQBR has previously highlighted, Marcos Maidana has a devil child on his chest and Odlanier Solis let a devil […]

Which is more disturbing: the above tattoos, all on one man, of the Mayweather clan, via

Gennady Golovkin beat the hell (and mouthpiece) out of Osamanu Adama over seven rounds in Monte Carlo Saturday, despite a solid showing from Adama. There was even this one time in the 4th round where, like, Adama made GGG bleed, and then this other time in the 5th when he backed him up for a […]

(Blake Caparello throws a right at Elvir Muriqi; photo credit: Ed Diller, DiBella Entertainment) Every fight tells a story. Some tell you who a fighter is. Some tell you who he isn’t. Some tell you what you already knew, and some make you question everything you thought you knew. When two largely unknown fighters from […]

It ain’t easy being an opposition leader in the turbulent Ukraine. Even when you try to make peace, even when you’re a fearsome heavyweight boxer named Vitali Klitschko, you might get a face full of fire extinguisher. (via) Besides that, and besides the subjects in the headline, this edition of Quick Jabs will round up […]

(Gavin Rees, left, faces off with Gary Buckland) Professional boxing promoters — alchemists that endeavour to weave plot lines into the business of prize fighting — employ a number of well-worn scripts. One of the more bankable in terms of generating high drama — dog-eared from its ubiquity in fact — involves the casting of […]