Marcos Maidana peeled himself off the canvas, the recipient of a vicious body shot from Amir Khan – the type of punch that usually ends fight, a pulverizing liver shot. Maidana made it to the closing bell of the opening stanza, still grimacing in pain from the hard left he took moments earlier. From then […]

NEW YORK, N.Y.–Some misguided fans of professional boxing decry the amateur ranks as little more than prospects slapping and jabbing each other into oblivion. If anyone subscribing to that foolish notion happened to be part of the packed house at Friday night’s New York Daily News Golden Gloves Finals in the Theater at Madison Square […]

For the superstitious-minded, and for the bemusingly large contingent of folk who think Erik Morales has a realistic chance of upsetting junior welterweight Marcos Maidana, the events of Friday evening on ESPN2 and ShoBox have to be something like omens for what comes Saturday night. First, highly-touted middleweight prospect David Lemieux lost on Friday Night […]

First of all, let me register my displeasure that Jim Lampley doesn’t scream “Aaaaaiiii, Body!” on HBO, like Japanese commentators do whenever a bodyshot is landed. It would really spice things up. Second, wow. Way to lose in exactly the same way twice, Hozumi Hasegawa. This fight Friday was almost a carbon copy of his […]

Goodnight, Samuel Peter. Outta nowhere, heavyweight prospect — and now, arguably, contender — Robert Helenius put you to sleep and maybe tucked your career into bed, wrapped it up like a burrito, kissed it on the forehead and turned off the lights. Helenius… I don’t know what to make of him. RingTV’s Doug Fischer is […]

It certainly started like a Fight of the Year candidate, this flyweight brawl Saturday between Hernan “Tyson” Marquez and Luis “El Nica” Concepcion, with traded knockdowns and startling shifts in momentum. But after the 4th round, Marquez took firm control and Concepcion’s belief in the superiority of his own power faded, rendering him more tactical […]

For a decade or so, Ivan Calderon has ruled the tiniest weight classes, the last several years by skating on the edge of disaster only to tap his reserves of exceptional skill to compensate for slowing speed and non-existent power. Last year, Giovani Segura knocked him out to end his junior flyweight reign. Saturday night, […]

Hey, you. It’s April Fool’s Day. It’s also the first uh da month, the traditional day of Open Thread. You got your peanut butter on my chocolate! No, you got YOUR chocolate on MY peanut butter! Let’s try and find some synergy betwixt these two things, just to start things off. What’s the most believable […]

The travails of Levenshulme lightweight John Murray and his seemingly never-ending quest to secure a major date against a world class opponent have been well documented. One would be hard pressed to find a press cutting of late which failed to expound upon his discontentment, frustration and lament at being left to rust away in […]

By now this video of a press conference scuffle this week between Bernard Hopkins and Jean Pascal ought to have been seen by plenty, and for a fight of this size, it got some rare attention out there in the mainstream. One of the things that makes it neat how differently everyone has looked at […]