We almost didn’t get Saturday night’s card on HBO because Adrien Broner unprofessionally failed to make weight and put his junior lightweight bout against Vicente Escobedo in jeopardy. Judging from the outcome, we might not have missed much. Certainly, Broner is a visibly sparkling talent whose performances are worth watching, and welterweight Keith Thurman showed […]

Junior welterweight Mauricio Herrera confirmed to TQBR Saturday that he has pulled out of the proposed Aug. 17 main event of ESPN2 Friday Night Fights against San Francisco’s Karim Mayfield, citing a back injury. Herrera’s move was originally reported by Boxingscene.com’s Ernest Gabion earlier Saturday. TQBR spoke with Herrera about the pull out and he […]

(Art Hovhannisyan, left, Miguel Acosta, right; photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) Though the main event kind of went against the spirit of the ShoBox: The New Generation series, an entertaining battle unfolded between two 30-somethings looking to figure their place in the lightweight division. Friday night at the Chumash Casino and Resort, Art Hovhannisyan (15-0-2, 8 […]

(Saul Alvarez, left, faces off against Josesito Lopez; photo credit: Carlos Baeza, Thompson Boxing Promotions) Sometimes it feels like Golden Boy and Top Rank are fighting each other more than they are putting on fights, the latter befitting of boxing’s two top promoters. Tuesday was the latest occasion that this destructive feud was on display, […]

From one of my favourite Youtube sub genres, crazy Russian driving videos, comes this beauty. That guy must thank his lucky stars every day. Junior lightweight Vicente Escobedo might identify, with the Adrien Broner express heading straight for him this weekend on HBO. Not that I’d count Escobedo out after all the upsets in recent […]

Danny Garcia pulled the rug out from underneath Amir Khan Saturday on HBO, delivering a stunning upset via technical knockout against a far more acclaimed fighter as a 5-1 underdog or worse. Khan already had the rug pulled out from underneath him once, in his last fight, a loss against Lamont Peterson that made a […]

David Haye found some of the old rocket fuel that originally propelled him into boxing stardom Saturday on Epix, downing Dereck Chisora in a grubby British grudge match that lived up to the sordid hype and ended in an explosive combination from Haye that reminded you why you cared in the first place. The last […]

Sources within the camp of San Francisco junior welterweight contender Karim Mayfield (16-0-1, 10 KOs) informed TQBR Friday that the headlining bout for the Aug. 17 edition of ESPN2 Friday Night Fights will likely be Mayfield and Mauricio Herrera (18-2, 7 KOs) of Lake Elsinore, Calif. at a venue still to be determined in Mayfield’s […]