The TQBR Prediction Game Hall of Champions is an august chamber with a rich historical tradition where only the finest performers are eventually enshrined with hermetically sealed busts. You know their names, for they are legends walking the Earth: Spidershark. Pretty Toney. miggs88. David Schraub. BenOlson. Paul Kelly. Today, for valorous performance in version 5.0, […]

Everything about the Super Six tournament on Showtime has been dramatic and compelling, but more like “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind” than “Star Wars.” There have been subtler pleasures to be had, such as the ability of someone to rise unexpectedly, but there have been few bombs-away moments. For one April night in 2010, […]

Welcome to The Queensberry Rules’ annual year-end awards, starting today and continuing throughout the week. Here’s how we do it around these parts:  The major categories are Round of the Year, Knockout of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final day is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging from […]

As stunning as the visuals are for Sergio Martinez’ knockout of Paul Williams in their rematch — the arc and momentum on that left hand, the perfect connection between jaw and fist, Martinez’ closed eyes, the way Williams melted to the ground, the chilling image of Williams’ eyes wide open as he lay unconcious — […]

(Jean Pascal at left, Bernard Hopkins at right; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) Maybe the ravages of age couldn’t take away 45-year-old Bernard Hopkins’ chances of becoming the oldest man to win a world championship belt, but the judges could. Three of them collectively scored a draw Saturday between Hopkins and light heavyweight champ Jean Pascal […]

Best coat hook caption ever. Now, on to fights in the works that do not involve drunken octopi, but, rather, professional boxers. (And since I rarely post them this close together, don’t forget to check out Quick Jabs, just below this entry.) Round And Round Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao will be presented by Top Rank […]

I’m not sure what’s going on in that picture, but I can surmise that Oscar De La Hoya is erotically feeding his company Golden Boy’s prized junior welterweight Amir Khan some cake, and that Khan’s strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza in the background is so disgusted by it that he’s on the verge of […]

Jean Pascal-Bernard Hopkins this Saturday on Showtime in Quebec City will be ugly, and it will also be important. Pascal has been in fun fights yet is often awkward, and he is also the true, lineal Ring magazine light heavyweight champion. Bernard Hopkins hasn’t been in a fun two-way action fight for years, but he’s […]

With four fights over the past weekend, it could’ve been a points bonanza for contestants in TQBR Prediction Game 5.0. Instead, one fight — Victor Ortiz-Lamont Peterson — ended in a draw for which no points were awarded, and another of the fights nobody* got any points for, since nobody* picked the winner, Joseph Agbeko, […]

(Yonnhy Perez, left, and Joseph Agbeko, right; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) On weekend after another: Welcome to December and/or November of 2010, when something wildly interesting is happening on any given Saturday of boxing. We had Amir Khan dancing on the edge of Marcos Maidana’s destruction for 12 rounds, emerging with a showing of guts […]