In this week’s fights-in-the-works post, have to start with the latest wrinkle in the Super Six. Sakio Bika has stepped in as the next opponent for super middleweight Andre Ward after Andre Dirrell pulled out, although it won’t be an official part of Showtime’s super middleweight tournament. My first reaction was, “Good replacement. Sakio Bika’s […]

Lucian Bute’s speed and power and craftiness are all very good, but that left uppercut of his is special. It might be my favorite weapon in boxing right now. In a super middleweight bout webcast on ESPN3, Bute dropped Jesse Brinkley three times with it, once to the body and twice to the head, the […]

Moe Bandy is the champ! From looking at the photo, he either punched out everyone or outdrank them or both, or one then the other. Via, with a tip o’ the pen to friend of the site Porch Dog. A shortish Quick Jabs today. Besides the headline, we have (allegedly) poisonous boxing gloves, some thoughts […]

This weekend offers an ESPN3stravaganza of bouts involving pound-for-pound talents Lucian Bute and Vitali Klitschko in what forecast as one-sided fights. Since the website kicked off its boxing programming in earnest, it has webcast better and more competitive fights, but it has not hosted such esteemed boxers as Bute and Klitschko. That’s a plus. The […]

I don’t want to write any more novelty boxing lists. Sure, worst haircuts and hottest girls were fun while they lasted, but when I was finished, I yearned for something more substantial. I wanted to sink my teeth into something meaty. But something made me want to jump back in the ring that is novelty […]

(The fateful moment between Abraham and Dirrell?) This is Super depressing. The Super Six lost another member of its original lineup Thursday when Andre Dirrell pulled out of the super middleweight tourney, citing an injury. When after his savage knockout loss the tournament lost Jermain Taylor, who never should have been there to begin with, […]

Boxing is not a sport whose participants are known for their sense of style. For every Chris Eubank or Oscar De La Hoya, there are a thousand bemulleted and corn rowed RJJ dressalikes. Maybe it’s a function of the sport’s working class roots. Maybe getting punched in the head leads to poor choices at the […]

BOOM. That’s Manny Pacquiao’s latest Nike ad, the first advertisement featuring him in the United States that I know of, and it’s good exposure for both the pound-for-pound king and our sport. Another ad in the “BOOM” series features Rick Ross. So, now, in America, Manny Pacquiao = Rick Ross. Not bad, Pacman. Who wants […]

I’m not big on namecalling, but you are a jerkface if you are one of the jerkface jerky weird weirdos looking for any excuse to crap on the Super Six tournament that you can. Here Showtime has pulled a rabbit out of its hat to keep the tournament going, and it was already a miracle […]