Last week’s boxing schedule was like a thrift store painting: mediocre, boring, and unexceptional. This week is more like a thrift shop painting with monsters roaming in the background! So much more exciting — and you can buy your very own from artist Chris McMahon. The monsters this week are guys like junior welterweights Marcos […]

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez have signed to fight one another on September 14 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. It’s the biggest fight that can be made in the sport today. Both boxers immediately let their fans know about the deal

I'm still buzzing about the fact that Floyd Mayweather (right) and Canelo Alvarez (left) signed this week to fight in September. It's been more than a decade since Mayweather has done this: taken on his undisputed most threatening opponent, in Alvarez's case a bigger, stronger, full-fledged junior middleweight who is coming into his own and […]

(credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) So it looks like we have a new superstar — a new Manny Pacquiao, if you choose to believe the CEO of the company that promotes him. Lucas Matthysse, the taciturn, mysterious Argentinian who for so long lurked on the fringes of the fans’ consciousness at 140, popping up here and there […]

“COME ON ye moving picture guys, And listen to my tale; Ye hurlers of the custard pies Who gather in the kale. Another moving stare we hear, Must in the picture horn– And his name is Georges Carpentier Greatest fighter ever born.” – Francois Descamps, Omaha World Herald, 1920 ******* “Sam Langford, himself one of […]

  Queensberry Rules Radio returns once again today at 4:30 ET, and this week TQBR’s own Patrick Connor and BadLeftHook.com‘s James Foley recap Lucas Matthysse’s destruction of Lamont Peterson, Devon Alexander’s win over Lee Purdy, the Guillermo Jones vs. Denis Lebedev bout, and much more. Joining them this week is David Greisman, writer for BoxingScene.com […]

Gotta love Giovani Segura – not only is he an action hero, but he’s pushing the already stretched frontiers of sponsorship in boxing by emblazoning the name of a registration services company on his Julio Cesar Chavez style headband. Who knows what this week will bring in terms of advertising, but it’ll have some good […]

When I called strength and conditioning coordinator Angel “Memo” Hernandez (aka Angel Heredia) a couple weeks ago, I wondered what kind of person I’d be talking to. Was he the guy former BALCO associate Victor Conte (a former PED peddler himself) constantly bashes on Twitter for being a crook? Or was he, as he claims, […]