ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — It’s been a wild time on the Boardwalk thus far, waiting for the HBO fights this afternoon and tonight. We’ve encountered cowboy midgets; watched half-naked dancing cowgirls; spilled a beer on a lady; been offered the services of prostitutes, which were declined; broken stories (P.S., Lem Satterfield has a follow up […]

(Daniel Ponce De Leon, at left, sporting a mullet ponytail; Yuriorkis Gamboa, at right, sporting a dead-eyed predator stare) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Weren’t many folk to interview at the weigh-in for Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Daniel Ponce De Leon on HBO Saturday, but there are still some tidbits and HBO’s unofficial ringside scorer Harold Lederman […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — One fight after enlisting Emanuel Steward in his corner, top-ranked light heavyweight Chad Dawson won’t be working with the Hall of Fame trainer for the toughest fight of Dawson’s career: an October meeting with division champion Bernard Hopkins. Steward told The Queensberry Rules Friday that Dawson’s lawyer informed him two days […]

(Manny Pacquiao knocks out Ricky Hatton, 2009.) While typing something into Google about pound-for-pound boxing king and superstar Manny Pacquiao a while back — I was looking for an old fight of his, I do believe — autocomplete proposed something preposterous in the way that Google often does, based on the zany things people are […]

I wish that this was not so one-sided a post. But current and former officials with The Ring — a publication I revere, have worked for and am affiliated with, in a manner of speaking — haven’t provided their explanation. What we have is this: On Thursday, Eric Raskin and William Dettloff, contributing editor for […]

That YURIORKIS GAMBOA! is fighting Daniel Ponce De Leon Saturday on HBO presents chances to rejoice and chances for remorse. It’s a whole big Taijitu diagram kind of deal. Remorse: This is Gamboa’s first boxing venture since his hotly anticipated showdown against Juan Manuel Lopez was spoiled by Orlando Salido pulling the upset back in […]

If it feels more Floyd-y and Pac-y around here lately, it’s because anytime those men are due to fight soon, they’re constantly generating a bunch of news. That’s gonna be the case through September and somewhat in October and for sure in November. Just know that TQBR is, as always, a la carte. If you […]

No fighter ticks off boxing fans like welterweight Andre Berto, who is fighting Saturday night on HBO. He’s not alone in ticking them off, mind you, it’s just that the way he does it is unique. Whereas Floyd Mayweather and David Haye have inflamed hatred with their egomaniacal bragging and refusal to face their most […]

With all due respect to both Matthew Hatton and Andrei Abramenka, whose argument in Blackpool a couple of weeks back signaled an end to boxing’s close season in the U.K., a more fitting curtain raiser to what looks an exciting term ahead is offered in the guise of a bantamweight summit meeting diarised for Doncaster […]

That’s the outcome of the debate between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito over their rematch, visualized. As junior welterweights, they fight at 154 lbs. these days, both of them. But originally, Cotto reportedly wanted Margarito to fight at 150. Why? I never saw an explanation reported. It wasn’t like Cotto was moving up in weight, […]