(Kevin Mitchell gives John Murray a left.) John Murray played Damien Karras to Kevin Mitchell’s Regan MacNeil in Liverpool on Saturday as the Londoner passed on the burden that had eaten away at him for more than a year following his loss to Michael Katsidis. A sizeable underdog going in, Mitchell withstood Murray’s bruising assaults […]

You might be asking yourself, “What do poorly rendered wax figurines of some cast members from Seinfeld have to do with boxing?” to which I’d answer, “Don’t be so impatient. All things are explained at TQBR.” See, light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins, in the next few days, will be getting a wax figure of himself […]

(Kevin Mitchell, at left; John Murray, at right) There has been an imaginary dividing line etched across Merry Old England since the Industrial Revolution, a hotchpotch of boundary stones separating northerners, seen as warm and gregarious provincial types, from their southern cousins, typified as insular urbanites wallowing in a realm of comparatively better wealth and […]

If that’s a Knockout of the Year candidate, it’s mainly because of how super middleweight Jean Paul Mendy drops, less because of Lucian Bute’s punch, which kind of clips the side of Mendy’s head, although that’s something that makes it interesting, too. I did find myself once more amused to hear Showtime’s team act, when […]

Underwater boxing! Better than fireworks boxing? Probably not, but it’s artier. For other “insane underwater movie sets,” go here. (h/t friend of the site Jim) Besides the stuff in the headline, we’ve got some notes on some early weekend action, the future of boxer Nonito Donaire, Andrew Bynum’s boxing future and more. Quick Jabs Boxing […]

Boxing cognescenti have offered up Saturday’s Brandon Rios-Urbano Antillon clash as the antithesis of this past Saturday’s deeply disappointing heavyweight fight between champ Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye. It’s not a bad offering, that’s for sure. Rios and Antillon are two of the few boxers today who could be considered true pressure fighters, the kind […]

For someone so dedicated to telling the truth, Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios has had a tough time getting folks to believe him. The WBA lightweight beltholder, who headlines this Saturday’s Showtime-televised card against Urbano Antillon, was dismissed as a youngster when he claimed he would become a professional boxer. Most people still can’t handle his […]

Boxing fans are a fickle bunch. You can give them a take-all-comers pugilist with an exciting style and a colorful personality who also has proven himself one of the best fighters in the world — which sounds like a composite of all the things they say they want — and they’ll make him a subject […]