(While I was en route back from Atlantic City, Andrew Harrison and Alex McClintock filed blog entries on the rest of Saturday’s actions. First up: Andrew. On deck: Alex. –Ed./Tim) Gavin Rees clinched a European lightweight title triumph in Cardiff on Saturday. However, a relatively routine outing against the rather one-paced Andy Murray turned on […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Before Saturday night, Carl Froch talked about wanting to be a boxer against Glen Johnson, but Johnson gave him no choice but to find his inner brawler. Matched against the ultra-tough Jamaican, Froch was forced to be ultra-tough himself. As a result, the fans got a dramatic, action-packed bout on Showtime, […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — We’ve settled in after dinner at the Boarwalk Hall ballroom, me and friends of the site like Andrew Fruman, Lee Payton and David P. Greisman. Great memories of this here spot; I saw Paul Williams-Sergio Martinez I in the ballroom. Anyway, I won’t be giving you updates on the tape-delayed Mikkel […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — If you’re Shane Mosley, the reputation hits just keep coming and coming. Are you Shane Mosley? Good, then you don’t have to worry about it as much. But while it’s only a mild surprise to learn that he tried to quit during his welterweight fight with Manny Pacquiao last month, given […]

John Murray’s displacement as the lightweight champion of Europe has afforded domestic peers Gavin Rees and Andy Murray the opportunity to duel over his discarded title belt at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena on Saturday evening. Rees, a former alphabet world titlist at junior welterweight, is heavily favoured to swim into the void — a form guide […]

Welcome to Open Thread, where the inmates run the asylum. As usual, I don’t want to confine the discussion to any one thing. But based on a discussion on Twitter a while back and on this Doug Fischer mailbag, I was awfully intrigued to get everyone’s take on a few potential or borderline Hall of […]

(I’ll be ringside Saturday, listening to Rachael Cordingley shriek. Which, somehow, this clip makes seem kind of adorable, believe it or not.) 2011 has been thought of as the “year of the upset” in boxing so far, and rightly so. But as a commenter on this site recently observed (and forgive me, thoughtful commenter, as […]

As a late replacement main event on Friday Night Fights — Steve Upsher Chambers-Josesito Lopez fell apart, lamentably — Chris Arreola-Kendrick Releford wasn’t much of a substitute for a more meaningful, potentially competitive fight. But at least we got to see a talented, exciting heavyweight show off what his new, slimmer physique could do for […]

It’s a short weekend of boxing for a long weekend of Memorializing. The above is not an “Oscar De La Hoya’s in rehab” joke, by the way. I’m not above making cruel jokes, mind you. But I saw the video over the past weekend and didn’t get a chance to link to it; it’s totally […]