This edition of Quick Jabs is packed to the gills with shocking and bizarre boxing news tidbits and ephemeral thoughts that Kelly Rowland definitely couldn’t handle. How many love children does Manny Pacquiao have? Could Sven Ottke be better than Joe Frazier? Is Oscar De La Hoya going to come back to boxing for real […]

(Or maybe this is the better metaphor?) It was sad for your favorite Queensberry Rules founder — and the site’s readers — to lose three staffers (Paul Kelly, Mike Coppinger and Corey Erdman) in 2011, shortly after revamping the site around this whole staff concept. But the founder is happy-faced today to announce that three […]

Not all mismatches are judged equally, it seems. Here’s a blind taste test: Imagine one of the five best fighters in the world is as much as a 20/1 betting favorite in his televised bout on HBO. Are we talking about earlier this month back when middleweight champion Sergio Martinez took on longshot Darren Barker, […]

I was there in Dallas for the Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito ophthalmology clinic. If it weren’t for the astonishing undercard, epitomized by the Mike Jones-Jesus Soto Karass fight, where Karass came back to nearly win after having been pummeled against the ropes to within an inch of his life by something like 600 punches by Jones […]

(Underdog, playing the role of undercard, saves the main event, played here by Sweet Polly Purebred. [Try not to think too much about the full ramifications of this visual metaphor.]) For a long time, the conventional wisdom among boxing promoters was that fans only paid for the main events of pay-per-view cards, and that spending […]

(Via Dan Rafael, on Twitter) There’s a lot of things that can be said about last Saturday night’s light heavyweight championship fight between Bernard Hopkins and Chad Dawson, and most of them have been said already. This blog referred to the fight as a “travesty.” On Twitter, I called it (among other things) a pay-per-PU, […]

Chad Dawson and Bernard Hopkins. The fight that fans weren’t clamoring for. Hopkins didn’t want. HBO couldn’t sell. Few anticipated. And even less actually attended. After the abortion of a fight that perhaps many have now seen, though few paid for, there are a host of questions that beg to be asked. How many more […]

(Tony Bellew catches Nathan Cleverly with a punch, if not on the scorecards) Welshman, Nathan Cleverly, underwent the toughest fight of his life in overcoming Liverpudlian Tony Bellew on Saturday. The points margins of 117-112 and 116-113 on two of the three judges’ scorecards seemed particularly harsh on Bellew, a revelation here, with adjudicator Terry […]