Is some Filipino restaurant capitalizing on the name of a certain Pinoy boxer? Hmmmmmmm. That never happens. (h/t friend of the site Jim, via) Before we jump into some of the fights in the works, the lack of a Weekend Afterthoughts column has left me without a venue for elaborating on the Saul Alvarez fight […]

June, 2011 is some kind of golden age for young Mexican brawlers about whom you can say the following three things: 1. They’re usually pretty fun to watch because they’re aggressively offensive-minded and sinfully hittable; 2. They’re wildly popular in some measure because of something they were born with; and 3. There’s hope for their […]

Everybody knows that having a tattoo makes you an average of 1.5x tougher than people without tattoos. Just look at all the tough famous people who have them, like The Rock, David Beckham and Angelina Jolie. Well, mainly just The Rock. So it should come as no surprise that professional boxers, who make their living […]

Because the number has been so squishy — “at least” 1.3 million buys, according to Top Rank’s Bob Arum — the news might have been overlooked a touch that Manny Pacquiao just did the best pay-per-view business of his career last month against Shane Mosley. And that’s saying something. Pacquiao falls just short of Floyd […]

With Mike Tyson headlining the 2011 Boxing Hall of Fame class that was inducted this past weekend, it sparked some fairly

Late at night, Evil Tim he comes to me, he says, “Let me write about your pound-for-pound list.” So I let Evil Tim write a guest column. Every boxer in the world today is atrocious. These so-called top 20 “pound-for-pound” boxers are so bad that I would trade a pound of lint for every pound […]

Fireworks boxing. 1934. This must be revived and perfected by 2034. (via, h/t) A variety of cards this weekend, although few that figure to produce fireworks, either literal or figurative. Lateef Kayode vs. Matt Godfrey, Friday, Showtime, Santa Ynez Calif. The raw, powerful cruiserweight prospect trained by Freddie Roach takes a big step up against […]

(Carl Froch celebrates his victory Saturday night. Via Showtime) It’s Tuesday night, so naturally you’re wondering, “Geez, what did Tim think of all the stuff that happened almost four days ago?” Wonder no longer, friends. (Let me correct that. I’m not going to go into any details about how I most likely got robbed by […]

Boxing fans looking for a book to accompany them onto the beach this summer are in luck, with Ebury Publishing having released a pair of autobiographies ahead of the sunburn season, to help tide interested parties through the interminable tedium of the airport lounge. Boxing royalty forms the subject of the first of these in […]