When I received a press release email from Main Events Promotions headlined, “NBC Sports Group Presents Fight Night Boxing Series,” with the subhead, “Quarterly Boxing Matches Saturday Nights on NBC Sports Network,” I instantly Googled “NBC Boxing Series” and expected to see an explosion from the boxing blogosphere in reaction to what I hastily interpreted […]

(Antonio Margarito’s eye; picture via) Boxing fans, Top Rank Promotions and the New York State Athletic Commission can all breath a big sigh of relief. This afternoon junior middleweight Antonio Margarito was given the all clear to fight in New York after an eye exam by an independent doctor. Miguel Cotto vs. Margarito II will […]

The situation in New York with Antonio Margarito’s license sunk very quickly into catastrophe status over the span of a few days to end the week, and has veered back toward salvageable since. As it stands, Margarito might still get a license for his junior middleweight fight with Miguel Cotto, if a doctor for,

For the second time in 2011, HBO is airing Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. and Saul Alvarez in close proximity on the calendar, with the idea that the two presposterously popular young Mexicans will eventually get in the kind of physical proximity that can be confined by a 20-foot ring in what would be one of […]

The days after a big boxing match are like a coastal town after a tropical storm, where there’s so much debris strewn about that it can take a long while to find everything worth finding and put it in its right place. (In this metaphor, nobody got hurt or ruined economically by the tropical storm. […]

The Counterpuncher. He’s not a front runner. He is patient. Watching, calculating. Defense first, elusive tack. He takes what you give him and turns it around. Catch the grenade and toss it back. Juan Manuel Marquez is certainly among the greatest counterpunchers in the history of the sport. He may even be the best. And […]

Even if you’ve been a fight fan most of your life, and even if you try to educate yourself when it comes to guys far before your time that you’d never know or care about unless you were a fight fan, you’re bound to encounter a few great scraps that you didn’t know existed or […]

Overlooked in the aftermath of Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez III and all the debates about whether the judges robbed Marquez and whether Pacquiao sucks now is that JUAN MANUEL MARQUEZ GAVE AN INTERVIEW WHERE HE WORE A SOMBRERO OVER HIS NAKED JUNK. That is Mexican manliness personified. But there are serious things left to debate. […]

Tyson Fury had raised concern along with eyebrows all week. In a one-to-one with The Guardian’s Donald McRae, the young leviathan revealed compelling qualities left bruised by the self-destructive nature that threatens to overrun him. At Trafford Park, Manchester on Saturday, Fury mimed the interview for those members of his fanbase who aren’t quite as well read. One minute he was overcast, flat […]