Boxing kangaroos are kind of the unofficial mascot around here, so the saga of the kangaroo who beat up an old woman was at first demoralizing (the kangaroo beat up an old woman), then heartwarming (she was damn tough about it, and not hurt badly) and finally, tragic (the ‘roo was euthanized because it was […]

These are your annual summer grades for all of boxing’s weight classes, because it’s a thing that happens in other sports like when college basketball writers give grades to the various conferences, but it’s not the kind of thing that happens in ours. It is not merely an excuse to run a picture of a […]

Maybe Bernard Hopkins “will never lose to a white boy,” but he’ll pal around with one. At the Amir Khan-Zab Judah bout over the weekend, Hopkins shared a laugh twith his old rival Joe Calzaghe, the man at whom Hopkins famously directed that racially inflammatory rhetoric. That loss to Calzaghe still bugs him and Hopkins […]

In an absorbing battle between unbeaten and highly touted heavyweight prospects, Tyson Fury emerged with the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles draped over his enormous shoulders after whipping the tough but shoddily prepared Dereck Chisora throughout twelve highly entertaining rounds. It was the perfect occasion to help ease boxing back onto terrestrial television as Fury […]

I’m firing up a three-for-one column today because I’ll be away from my computer for boxing-writing purposes all weekend. Although: Our Gautham Nagesh will write up the big junior welterweight clash this weekend between Amir Khan and Zab Judah on HBO, and our Andrew Harrison will write up the heavyweight Tyson Fury-Dereck Chisora fight he […]

These aren’t your prototypical career arcs for two headliners in an HBO fight, the headliners coming up this Saturday. Usually you’ll usually see one of the main event contestants who’s become consistently hot, maybe both of them, and then occasionally one of them is coming off a loss or shaky performance. Between them, Amir Khan’s […]

For a sport nicknamed “the sweet science,” there’s very little scientific method applied to examining it. So over the last couple days I put on a lab coat and some goggles, and I decided to try and get as scientific as I could. The occasion for breaking out the beakers is the very important moment […]

Go, Butterbean, go. With your new television program where you are a sherriff’s deputy, entertain us crudely, as you did in the boxing ring. Give us the illusion of reality we crave from reality shows and/or fights where your opponents take dives. (h/t on the video to friend of the site dpg) Dammit, now I […]

Pawel Wolak’s face was the symbol of the weekend for boxing: ugly as sin, but with elements of what makes boxing great. That face helped the sport get a little attention from one of the biggest sports blogs out there, The Big Lead (quoting moi, blush blush). But however much Wolak’s swollen vagina of a […]

Following rumor after rumor after false report, this time it’s real. First came the Boxing Scene report that HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg would be gone by Monday, then came official confirmation today from HBO and Greenburg himself that the beleaguered chief of HBO’s boxing programming was departing. There are already conflicting reports over why […]