(Joseph Agbeko, left; Abner Mares, right. Credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Two performances on Showtime Saturday in the bantamweight division reminded us of the oft-ignored second part of Egan’s nickname for boxing: It’s “the sweet science,” certainly, but more accurately, it’s “the sweet science of bruising.” On the undercard, Anselmo Moreno made a splendid debut on […]

There’s been something of an evolution of the Antonio Margarito tale: What once was grotesque to many of us (and for some of it, it still is) has now become a dramatic storyline in advance of his rematch with Miguel Cotto Saturday night on HBO pay-per-view. If it was my call, Margarito wouldn’t have a […]

Saturday is just jam-packed with rematches of serious, serious action fights, a couple of them still fogging up your television screen with controversy from the first time around. Over on HBO pay-per-view, in one of the controversial ones, we get a do-over of Antonio Margarito-Miguel Cotto, a bout tainted and/or enhanced by the suspicion that […]

If we don’t get a Fight of the Year candidate this week, I will shave my head into a mohawk and you can call me the ugly white Victor Ortiz. This just might be the longest weekly schedule you will ever see and it’s pretty much all quality. There’s Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito II […]

(Photo credit: Shabaz Shafiq — SW33TSCIENCE) Anthony Crolla shut out Willie Limond in Motherwell on Friday evening in the stingiest way imaginable. Manchester’s million dollar kid gave the Garthamlock man’s supporters the cold shoulder throughout; even excitement had the door slammed shut in its face. And at the end of twelve tepid rounds, during which […]

This week’s boxing conversation was mostly dominated by the New York State Athletic Commission’s decision to grant Antonio Margarito a license to fight Miguel Cotto for a second time on Dec. 3, and the various spin-offs and branch-offs of that entire issue, like culpability in the saga, whether or not Margarito should be in the […]

Motherwell plays host to a handsome looking British title fight on Friday evening as domestic lightweight boss, Anthony “Million Dollar” Crolla, hits the road again to lock horns with Garthamlock nearly man, Willie Limond. For Limond, a 4 to 1 short ender with oddsmakers, victory would gild a silver lining along the clouds which have […]

Erik Morales: Was there ever a more willing warrior — a guy who was more dead set on meeting fire with fire? From his teenage days in Tijuana, right up to a few months ago under Floyd Mayweather-Victor Ortiz, Morales has always delivered drama and action. Knocking out the 122-pound gargoyle-faced Daniel Zaragoza to lift the WBC […]

(Saul Alvarez, left; Kermit Cintron, right) Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is either the future of the boxing or a spoiled child, depending on who you ask. It’s unlikely that the argument is going to be solved by his junior middleweight fight this weekend with Kermit Cintron in Mexico City. Not unless Cintron pulls the upset and […]