Whatzit with boxers lately and assault charges that aren’t straight up beat downs? It makes those charges harder to react to normally. What you see above is the face of the security guard whom Floyd Mayweather allegedly poked to bring about some of Mayweather’s latest legal woes. The poke “reddened” and “discolored” the guard’s cheek. […]

(from left: Abner Mares, Yonnhy Perez, Vic Darchinyan and Joseph Agbeko; credit: Howard Schatz, Showtime) Long live the Showtime tournaments. Saturday inaugurates the second installment in the network’s recent tourney binge, a bantamweight series that takes the super middleweight series and boils it down to four people instead of six, and four fights to the […]

There are a couple different ways this blog might look at "The Fighter," the movie version of the story of real-life boxer Micky Ward: from the perspective of a movie fan, or as a boxing writer. Let's try both. From the vantage point of a movie fan, it's an excellent film, as good as a […]

DC has reprinted the 1978 comic book “Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali,” a tale that is exactly what it sounds like, and if it’s not kooky-sounding enough already, the battle takes place in outer space as special guest referee Athena handles zebra duties and Jimmy Carter, Sonny Bono, Kurt Vonnegut and Andy Warhol sit ringside. It’s […]

Two people this weekend got a nice 600/550/600 combo in the TQBR Prediction Game, and you guessed it: Those two people are now our leaders for 5.0. NattyChamps aka DukeShadeBlue has a 50-point edge over Apemantus for first place. There were 19 people overall who got all three picks right, but a couple of them […]

Timothy Bradley-Devon Alexander is headed to the Pontiac Silverdome, and get this: The owners of the Silverdome may have paid a site fee that exceeded the price they paid for the Silverdome itself. Dan Rafael reported that the fee is more than $500,000 for the junior middleweight fight, while the Silverdome was recently sold for […]

(This is what the banner of this card has come to.) Saturday night was to pit Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. and Saul Alvarez against one another in a contest to decide which young, debatably talented, widely loved Mexican junior middleweight would prove more popular when their matches went head-to-head. Then Chavez got sick, or had […]

In a weekend with two very difficult winners to predict, three amigos — TJChim, Apemantus and Bundy Bears AKA ALEXMAC — got all of them right. And because of this, one of those three, Bundy Bears, is now in the lead for TQBR Prediction Game 5.0. Andre Ward-Sakio Bika was the gimme, with only one […]