ESPN’s boxing department rolled the dice a bit in plugging undefeated junior welterweight Joan Guzman into one of their main event slots — a subject that has been liberally covered. If some guys bring outside baggage into fights, one can only assume the posse surrounding Guzman in the Hollywood, Fla. ring was there to tow […]

The final installment. Previously: Part I and Part II. Mickey Walker’s ring return in August saw him in with the “Aberdeen Assassin,” light heavyweight Leo Lomski, and again it seemed as if someone had place a cookie cutter over the bulk of his fight looks and kept churning them out. Mickey charged early and had […]

Just like Blake Anderson, we’re nice guys at TQBR. So nice that we bring you the schedule even when there’s virtually nothing on. Not unless you’re a Klitschko beatdown enthusiast/German, which is pretty much the same thing anyway. The younger Klitschko is fighting former cruiserweight Jean-Marc Mormeck, who really has no business in the ring […]

Observe the final round of a pretty intense junior bantamweight fight from the weekend. Making the fight even better, the two men are nicknamed respectively after a Disney character and a dish where seafood is marinated in citrus juice. Actually, Juan Jose Montes, the victor of the bout, has a second nickname, too: “Buffy.” Even […]

Continued from part I. Milwaukee fight promoter Frank Mulhern put up a good offer to stage a third match up between Mickey Walker and Jock Malone in “The Brew City,” and Mickey was also in talks to meet light heavyweight champion Mike McTigue, who had also fallen from the good graces of the New York […]

Both of the winners on HBO were something of a revelation Saturday night, for different reasons. On the undercard, Adrien Broner scored a huge knockout of a the best fighter he has yet faced, Eloy Perez, looking better than ever — and showing the kind of special talent that indicates he could, just maybe, very […]

Sloppy action accented what was a fairly lackluster Friday Night Fights on ESPN2 last night, as what might have been entertaining match-ups on paper turned out to be a bit underwhelming. But boxing fans looking to FNF for their pre-Saturday warm up have become somewhat accustomed to fights that look better the week before than […]

UNKLE – ANOTHER NIGHT OUT dir: Toby Dye from Black Dog Films on Vimeo. For your viewing pleasure: Some cinematographically luscious boxing ritual porn, accompanied by the spectacular croonings of Mark Lanegan. For your consideration: Sports By Brooks, citing unnamed sources, saying that HBO had agreed to some pretty serious and unconscionable on-air editorial concessions […]

Don’t ever say that TQBR is not interested in the future of sport. Last week’s schedule brought you the innovation that is Taser Ball, this week it’s blindfolded boxing. Sure, they thought of it in 1949, but it probably just needed better PR. Hell, it looks like Paul Williams learnt some of his technique by […]