Is there any boxing figure more hit or miss on his jokes than Adrien Broner, the headlining act of the past weekend? Sometimes in post-fight interviews you get: "He was underwater like a… like a… neck bone." Other times in post-fight news conferences you get: "I want everyone to get their questions out. Because I […]

(October 30, 2012; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Professional boxer Floyd Mayweather watches the game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Los Angeles Lakers at the Staples Center. Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports) Major boxing news Tuesday: The biggest name in boxing in the United States and the country's highest-paid athlete in any sport, Floyd Mayweather, has signed […]

(Feb 16, 2013; Atlantic City, NJ, USA; Adrien Broner [red trunks] and Gavin Rees [blue/red trunks] trade punches during their 12 round lightweight bout at Boardwalk Hall. Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports) Rarely do you see a fighter win the first two rounds of a bout, as Gavin Rees did Saturday night on HBO against […]

“Tex Rickard, veteran promoter of boxing contests, today told the Staff Press the end of boxing in New York state is so near he can almost feel it. Even if Gov. Whitman, in the opinion of Rickard should suddenly relent in his avowed intention of crushing the game in this state, the sport has been […]

  I don’t have anything nice to say about this week’s boxing schedule. So the Emily Flake cartoon is quite appropriate. Stand by for the clever but devastating one liners. My problem this week (get used to the carping, there’s nothing good coming up for a while) is that there’s virtually nothing to watch but […]

(Chris Algieri, left, Winston Mathis, right; photo credit: Ed Diller, Star Boxing) Used to be, some of the people close to Chris Algieri would playfully tell him to get the hell out of the sport of boxing, like top trainer Robert Garcia, or else ask when he was going to quit, like his family. After […]

(Photo credit: Jason Cairnduff) If Barry McGuigan has a hint of Galileo about him this morning, then he can be forgiven. For, while it is unwise to put untiring faith behind anyone, anything in the hurt business, it is especially chancy to put such allegiance on record. In Carl Frampton, though, McGuigan has a boxer […]

Was it an eternity ago that boxing was stacking up one hit weekend after another, or does it only seem that way? Pretty sure it's been a literal eternity. LITERAL. It's slow going at the beginning of 2013 compared to the end of 2012, and more so than with the usual early-year doldrums. Outside of one top notch HBO show and one better […]

(Carl Frampton, left, stares down Kiko Martinez) Twenty eight years ago this month, Irish folk hero Barry McGuigan, a boxer who, once beneath the ring lights, could unite a city at war with itself, punched out his world title credentials against Puerto Rican-born Brooklynite Juan Laporte. “The Clones Cyclone”, 24-1 heading in (the controversial loss […]

  (Tent owner Jimmy Sharman, Jr. with his boxers) “It was the easiest thing in the world for an Aborigine to get into a boxing troupe. They would grab them before they’d grab a white bloke. They were a drawcard. You know, you see Aboriginals on the Board and then a lot of people would […]

I don't know what it means to sob mathematically, but I'm sobbing pugilistically this week. There's virtually nothing on unless you're a fan of boxers who are well past their best, such as lightweight turned welterweight Nate Campbell. I know I'm not. There's an Australian rugby player freak show on Friday night and some rumblings […]

(Mar 17, 2012; New York, NY, USA; Donovan George before his fight against Edwin Rodriguez at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports) Donovan George turned off the lights this weekend. His victim wasn’t the record-setting audience of Sunday’s Super Bowl, though. George decimated James Cook in 1:15 of the opening […]