Roast of Charlie Sheen Mon, Sept 19 10/9c Mike Tyson – Mike’s Secret Garden www.comedycentral.com Comedy Central Funny TV Shows Roast of Charlie Sheen Mike Tyson sure roasted Jeffrey Ross a lot harder than he did Charlie Sheen. It’s that kind of week. There are a whole lot of good boxers fighting guys that aren’t […]

This annual affair aimed at assessing the prospects for boxing having true champions in each division is getting rather morbid. Each year, it seems the best boxing can muster is six concurrent lineal champions — i.e., the man who beat the man who beat the man all the way back to the origin of the […]

Usually you can hardly talk enough about a mega-fight, and therefore, three days after Floyd Mayweather vs. Victor Ortiz, there are still things that have been left undiscussed at the proper length, deep questions, like, “Did you know that the music for ‘dramatic chipmunk‘ came from the movie ‘Young Frankenstein?’” (Larry Merchant mash-up via Deadspin […]

(Above: a video Dave and I talked about separate from our WBWT Gchat session. And another one we didn’t talk about: Larry Merchant roughing up  someone during a interview!) me: It’s like that y’all, it’s like that y’all, it’s like this and like that and like that y’all. David: You know, if I were five […]

Lee Selby refused to listen to anyone but himself — an intuitive resolve that allowed him to maltreat logic and tear the British and Commonwealth featherweight titles away from Stephen “Swifty” Smith in front of the Liverpudlian’s own people. Oddsmakers had scoffed at the Welshman’s chances when laying their lines, while the handful of writers […]

There’s a fine line between abusing the rules and using them to their advantage, and there’s a fine line between sportsmanship and excessive generosity toward your opponent. But Floyd Mayweather, Jr., was, to my estimation, on the right side of the line against Victor Ortiz when he stopped Ortiz in the 4th round with a […]

For the untelevised portion of the Floyd Mayweather vs. Victor Ortiz undercard, I’ve already made a number of catty and brilliantly insightful remarks on

Italian novelist Italo Calvino once wrote that life pulls us toward decay and finally death. Well, so do pre-fight bromances. If the old saw says fighters should not have sex thirty days (or is it six months?) before a fight, the same rule really ought to apply to getting treacly with one’s opponent within the […]