ATLANTIC CITY — There was so much beforehand that made so little sense about Aussie Daniel Geale and Brit Darren Barker fighting in A.C., but that was then and this is now. Now, anyone watching this middleweight battle from Revel or at home on HBO is a happy, happy person. In the end, Barker won […]

ATLANTIC CITY — The highlight of the HBO undercard is the broadcast of the light heavyweight clash between Nathan Cleverly and Sergey Kovalav, already covered here. That leaves the other highlights as junior featherweight contender Jhonatan Romero vs. Kiko Martinez, also televised on HBO, and once-beaten junior welterweight prospect Thomas Dulorme (fighting at a catchweight […]

This is your non-spoiler post for the HBO light heavyweight bout between Sergey Kovalev and Nathan Cleverly. If you want to wait until 9:45 p.m. to watch the fight live, read no further. SERGEY KOVALEV-NATHAN CLEVERLY I was about 95 percent sold on Kovalev before Saturday. I'm 100 percent after watching him maul Cleverly, an […]

There was a kaleidoscopic quality to Friday Night Fights this week, where it was impossible to know at any given moment who was up and who was down, and where the cylinder would stop twisting, nobody knew. The men who came out on the winning end of the stellar ESPN2 card, one of the finest […]

ATLANTIC CITY — Being at The Revel makes me feel like I'm hardly in Atlantic City; it's a classy, modernly decorated joint, with none of the general feel of sleaze or chintz that is part of A.C.'s charm and simultaneously to its detriment. At the weigh-in at The Revel for Saturday's HBO middleweight main event […]

Now I'm starting to get worried. One week ago, at a one-month mandatory weigh-in, Canelo Alvarez was very cut at 166.8, as you can see. At the same weigh-in for Austin Trout, he was actually lighter. Here's the problem: He has to get a pound and a half lighter than he was for Trout, down […]

Every other year, Australia and England meet in the world of cricket for a series known as the Ashes. It's going on now, actually, and the two countries play for an urn full of the ashes of the stumps from the first time Australia beat its colonial masters at home, which England burned because they […]

1. Derry Mathews vs. Curtis Woodhouse (Dave Coldwell, left; Curtis Woodhouse, right) Often, great matchmaking verges on the sadistic. In a lightweight melee that all but guarantees periwinkle shiners and broken bones, emerging promoter Dave Coldwell (in tandem with Eddie Hearn) pits together cult heroes on Sept. 21 at the Liverpool Olympia. Driffield’s Woodhouse, a […]

(Walton Prison in Liverpool, England, early 20th Century; photo credit: here) August 13th marks the day that Peter Allen was hanged at Walton Prison for his part in murdering John Alan West. Allen and accomplice Gwynne Evans were the last two state executions in 1964. More importantly, August 13th will also come to be significant […]

  If you’re a boxing fan, prepare to feel like a doting dad at a One Direction concert. After this week, there’ll be nothing for you here (at least not for a little while). But this week is a good one, with an HBO triple header, some high quality fights from Japan and the return […]

Green River and TQBR are in agreement: It's dry as a bone out there and will be for a few more weeks. There are some good scattered bouts floating around — I'm heading to Atlantic City next weekend for the middleweight clash between Daniel Geale and Darren Barker, to be aired on HBO, and it's […]

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(Rustam Nugaev, left, Jose Hernandez, right; credit: Mario Serrano, Gary Shaw Productions) Continuing their recent run of competitive fights, ESPN2 put on a fun show from Cabazon, Calif. on Friday Night Fights. In the main event, Russian Rustam Nugaev (25-6-1, 15 KO) stopped Jose Hernandez (14-7-1, 6 KO) in the 5th round of a scheduled […]

(Deontay Wilder, left, Siarhei Liakhovich, right; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Beforehand, most people expected heavyweight prospect Deontay Wilder taking on faded ex-contender Siarhei Liakhovich on ShoBox would be ugly. I was in the minority: Wilder still was living up to his name as a wild, raw, untested fighter, and Liakhovich's recent losses were against good […]

"Russell unfazed by criticism," reads the recent RingTV headline about featherweight talent Gary Russell, Jr., and I believe he is. It would be impossible to go about his career the way he has if he cared what anyone thought, because the former Olympian and consensus 2011 Prospect of the Year has comported himself shamelessly since […]