He is the walking dead, front and center at many high profile matches, hovering over boxing like the specter of a media coverage cliche. Except he defies aspects of that cliche: He is a celebration of the sport — strange, bordering on supernatural, with beaming laser eyes serving as its brightly glowing highlights. This is […]

(via r/boxing) What can you say about a schedule this meagre? Not much, so I won’t. Take a look at those lovely ladies punching each other in the face up there. More of that, I say. There was meant to be more going on, but Afghani-Canadian junior lightweight whirlwind Arash Usmanee confirmed his status as […]

(Queensberry Rules Radio’s Foley and Connor are only the second-best duo to come from the 80s; via) Happy New Year from Queensberry Rules Radio! Our first episode of 2014 should be fun, as always. There hasn’t been a whole lot of huge news or many significant fights in the last few weeks, but by golly, […]

Rances Barthelemy very well might have been on his way to a resouding win over top junior lightweight Argenis Mendez on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. Instead he got a tarnished one with a knockout victory of Mendez that he earned after the bell rang to end the 2nd round. These two and controversy go hand-in-hand […]

Yes, yes, it’s 1/14 now and no longer 12/13, but this pound-for-pound list of the best fighters in the world regardless of weight is as of 12/13, so THERE. Adrien Broner’s Snickers-level satisfying beatdown by Marcos Maidana made room for a new entry from Asia, and if you recognize Shinsuke Yamanaka above, you probably already […]