There was one big exception, but the men followed the lead of the women in Olympic boxing Monday in being mostly controversy-free. In one division, the consensus gold medalist in waiting looks to be on the right path but could have a challenge or two ahead (lightweight), another division looks wide open (middleweight) and another […]

Women’s boxing put on a hell of a show Monday, mostly washing the nasty taste from yesterday’s terrible judging out of our collective mouths. There was atmosphere, upsets and feel-good stories galore at the Excel Arena in East London. Hometown favourite Natasha Jonas combined with Katie Taylor in a lightweight Quarterfinal to put on one […]

Let’s say you haven’t thrown up in your mouth enough over the last week or so. Maybe you’re asking yourself: What can I do to remedy that? Well, I’ve got good news, friends. Olympic boxing isn’t over. The Quarterfinals will continue for three more days, and this preview will get you through two of them. […]

(Teymur Mammadov) There are two very good reasons not to watch Olympic boxing: the hunt-and-peck, fencing-with-fists style that is as clinical and devoid of excitement as your annual physical (unless you enjoy the hernia check-up), and how the scoring system leads to insanely illogical scoring. The London 2012 Games have been above par on the […]

With the Olympic men’s boxing quarterfinals upon us Sunday afternoon, a medal is just one step away. So, the podium does indeed await very, very soon, as our Patrick Connor wrote in a lovely piece earlier today. As such, we’ll look at each match-up rather than just hitting the highlights. First up are the bantamweights […]

(Photo: gold medalist Teofilo Stevenson [center], silver medalist Pyotr Zaev [left], bronze medalist Jurgen Fanghanel [right], 1980, AFP/Getty Images) Cruising into the guts of Olympic boxing this year, many of us boxing fans still feel foggy-headed as to whether or not we’re supposed to care, and if we are, why. The numbers are in, though, […]

(Cheng Dong of China, left, against Natasha Jonas of Great Britain, right, during the Test Event for London on Nov. 27, 2011) While big names like Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather kept men’s boxing in the online conversation during 2009, women’s boxing finally got some press with the Aug. 13 announcement that year from International […]

Alex McClintock hands me the final leg of the Round of 16, Australian rule football style. Three weight classes wrap up this round, with two of them featuring gold medal-worthy match-ups. It’s like in the NBA, when one conference is so much better than the other that the (for example) Western Conference champion is strongly […]

[UPDATE: Much of what I wrote below can now be ignored, because Errol Spence won his appeal. The International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) has overturned the decision, which is the right call, saying that the referee should’ve issued warnings to Krishan Vikas that would have cost Vikas four points, which is a pretty strange basis […]

Maybe NBC didn’t recognize you as more than a “man on the street,” Evander Holyfield, in what has become a symbol of their much-criticized Olympics coverage, but you are a star in the TQBR world. We awarded you the boxing tweet of the week on our Facebook page for your entertaining/disturbing musings on… socks. You […]

This video from the London Olympics is pretty big time right now, and with good reason. Japanese bantamweight Satoshi Shimizu (above) was knocking down Azerbaijani Magomed Abdulhamidov all over the place in the 3rd round Wednesday, and the referee treated it like nothing was happening. Rightfully, the result has been overturned and the referee suspended. […]

Rarely is the intersection of boxing and religion so unintentionally hilarious. (h/t TQBR unofficial visual consultant Che) Hey, howsabout 50 Cent’s TMT Promotions, huh? Starting with a stable of Yuriorkis Gamboa, Andre Dirrell, Andre Berto, Celestino Caballero, Zab Judah and Billy Dib — with the possibility of Floyd Mayweather, too — would give them a […]

After just four days of men’s boxing at London 2012, the size of the field has been cut nearly in half. Unlike the round of 32, which wound down yesterday, the top seeds in every division will be boxing. There are no byes. We already covered the heavyweights and super heavyweights in the preview of […]