(credit: Chris Bevan) There aren’t many fighters who would elect to dust themselves off after a knockout loss and then go right back into the eye of the storm with a teeth-jangling power puncher. That is the challenge, however, that British junior lightweight champion Gary Sykes has chosen for himself Saturday evening in Huddersfield, against […]

“Clearly, I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I could have done with my fire-breathing fists.” —Charlie Sheen I’m not usually one to get caught up in celebrity hoopla. I never had much interest in Paris Hilton’s partying or her poorly-lit sex tape. I have the Internet, and therefore a practically infinite […]

That’s a sweet scene of one of this weekend’s combatants, Zab Judah, hittin’ the circus recently with his kiddo, courtesy Main Events. I wouldn’t dare mock such a scene. Your not-quite-good-enough-to-warrant-full-previews weekend of boxing: Saul Alvarez-Matthew Hatton, Saturday, HBO, Anaheim Calif. Alvarez is the junior middleweight who rules Mexico right now with his red hair […]

Fun has been had by all the last couple weekends in boxing. Thanks are in order. Thanks, Top Rank, for giving us Nonito Donaire-Fernando Montiel then Brandon Rios-Miguel Acosta. Thanks, HBO, for investing in that pair of bantamweights to produce a KO of the Year candidate, and thanks, Showtime, for televising the Fight of the […]

(credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios came back from early trouble to knock out Miguel Acosta in the 10th round of a thrilling lightweight title title bout in Las Vegas tonight. “Bam Bam” showed incredible grit in what was not just a star making and belt winning performance, but an early candidate for […]

There’s a little de facto tournament going on among Top Rank’s stable of lightweights, and it isn’t like all the other promotional xenophobia coming out of Bob Arum’s shop of late. That’s because there’s nothing at all bad about it. It’s given us the TQBR Fight of the Year for 2010 with Humberto Soto-Urbano Antillon, […]

Viking offspring will return to arms on Saturday as Stephen Foster Jr., the surprise winner of a European junior lightweight title in October, looks to repel Belgian raider Ermano Fegatilli in Bolton. The Salford man’s eyebrow-curling title triumph, a 3rd round levelling of Armenian-born puncher Levan Kirakosyan (a “Great Odin’s Raven” moment if ever there […]

From time to time BoxingScene’s David P. Greisman and myself gchat one another. Sometimes we talk about boxing, even. Sometimes, I publish what we say. Besides the subjects in the headline, in this edition of “When Boxing Writers Talk” we discuss Epix, the CBS deal, Sergio Martinez, Bill Murray and more. (For visual purposes, hyperlinks […]

“He comes at a very fortuitous time. If anybody can bring boxing back to the mainstream … it’s Manny Pacquiao.” – Bob Arum (Associated Press) Lance Armstrong is one of the most iconic and well-known athletes in the United States. The famed cyclist achieved unprecedented success in his sport by winning the Tour de France […]

Insanity wolf supports Round and Round, the column where we discuss fights in the works. Besides the people in the headline, we have the latest on fights involving the likes of Yoan Pablo Hernandez, Humberto Soto, Paul Williams, Manny Pacquiao and others. Round And Round Assuming Manny Pacquiao gets by Shane Mosley in a May […]