(Jun 29, 2013; Mashantucket, CT, USA; Gennady Golovkin [blue trunks] celebrates his win over Matthew Macklin [green trunks] after their bout at Foxwoods Resort and Casino-MGM Grand Theatre. Golovkin won via 3rd round knockout. Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY) I’m still not completely sold on Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin, or GGG to his fans. There is no […]

Sept. 8 will mark one year since Andre Ward last entered the boxing ring. That’s one year since he destroyed Chad Dawson, the former lineal light heavyweight champion, over 10 brutal rounds and rose to number two in the consensus pound-for-pound rankings of those that like to keep track of such things. To say the […]

(Katy Perry as a boxer at the MTV VMA’s, probably inspired by listening to TQBR Radio; photo credit: WENN) Enough of that pseudo-musical nonsense. You come here for boxing. We may be due for a really crappy weekend of fighting, but don’t tell the boxing gods that. Two supposedly ho-hum weekends in a row turned […]

That's Canelo Alvarez getting his romance novel cover on, from a still from Saturday's episode of All Access. The episode gave people plenty of things to laugh about and talk about besides Canelo's topless bareback adventure, which marks an improvement from the Showtime series' handling of Floyd Mayweather's last fight. We had Mayweather vocally hoping […]

(Jhonny Gonzalez, left, Abner Mares, right; credit: Esthen Lin, Showtime) What an upset. But it made sense. It's the kind that can always happen when you're in the ring against someone with Jhonny Gonzalez's dynamite, as Abner Mares discovered Saturday on Showtime. Mares, in his second fight at featherweight and climbing the pound-for-pound rankings of […]

(left to right: Argenis Mendez, event promoter Mike Tyson, Arash Usmanee; Tom Casino, Iron Mike Producions) Disputed decisions involving Arash Usmanee served as bookends for this season of Friday Night Fights on ESPN2, and he's now been on both sides of the dispute. Few thought he deserved to lose the season debut to Rances Barthlemy […]

There exist very few avenues a reasonable person could saunter down in arguing that the sport of boxing hasn’t infused itself into the fine spirits of history. In fact, the idea of boxing and the fates of laws, nations and ethnic populations being intertwined — sometimes violently, sometimes less so — has been pointed out […]

Often, nostalgic memories are colored by a rose lense that distorts just how much better things were, once upon a time. If any boxers today approach that warped standard of how they used to make 'em in the good ol' days and don't anymore, one of them has to be featherweight Abner Mares, fighting this […]

(Pre-psychotic breakdown Amanda Bynes driving and texting, possibly about this week’s episode of TQBR Radio; photo credit: David Tonnessen, PacificCoastNews.com) There’s just something about Queensberry Rules Radio that makes people want to break the law and text about it — at dinner, at bar mitzvahs, even while driving, like our friend Amanda up there. But […]

Daniel Jacobs saw blood and went in for the kill. Only the blood he saw was his own: Cut in the 3rd round by Giovanni Lorenzo, Jacobs went after the toughest test of his comeback from cancer and landed a left-right combo to finish off a man who had never been stopped before. It was […]

Takashi Miura-Sergio Thompson was the least heralded of this past weekend's unending string of enthralling boxing matches, so make sure you catch up on it above if you haven't already for a three-knockdown donnybrook. It won't do much to breathe life into the comatose junior lightweight division, since Miura didn't exactly convince as a long-lasting […]

There is no other contest that man has devised that so embraces truth; no sport, no game, no trial or competition so revels in the black and white of honesty than that of prizefighting. In boxing the truth is everything. As a man steps into the ring he is only faced with honesty — honesty […]

I know it’s difficult to believe, but there is a panda somewhere in that photograph. “Why is the boxing schedule headed by a panda?” you may ask. Well, it’s all to do with junior lightweight Teon Kennedy’s fight on Saturday, which is being broadcast by an online channel called pandafeed.tv. Lower level boxing shows are their […]

Stephen Smith snuffed out Gary Buckland with a grisly right uppercut on the Nathan Cleverly-Sergey Kovalev undercard in Cardiff. Smith, a rank outsider, lured his forward-pressing foe into a corner in round five before dipping his right shoulder like a centre forward moving on his marker and delivering a fight-ending hammer blow inside of Buckland’s […]