(Naazim Richardson was the only thing stopping Antonio Margarito from fighting Shane Mosley with loaded gloves. Richardson was not in Miguel Cotto’s corner when Cotto fought Margarito in the fight prior. Cotto looked like this after facing Margarito.) To answer the headline, I could probably just say, “Antonio Margarito,” and about 90 percent of my […]

Try though I might to move on from the whole Antonio Margarito handwraps issue, there’s a poisonous element of the debate over whether he deserved a boxing license that is so pernicious I must expand on my previous answer to it. The element is this: Many backers of Margarito receiving a license are labeling anyone […]

For all you ladies out there: You might think that boxing’s a good thing to take up for self-defense, but this hilarious 1991 book offers some alternatives. I hope everyone still has their old floppy disks. While you’re practicing how to assault someone with a Sony Walkman, you can also peruse the latest fights in […]

I’d gathered from many boxing fans that they were all quite sick of talking about Antonio Margarito and his loaded hand wraps, a multi-year saga that’s been debated endlessly over that period. So when Texas granted him a boxing license Thursday to clear the path for a November fight with Manny Pacquiao — which was […]

(Above are a couple panels from my brother’s web comic running now at kylestarks.com. It depicts a big ol’ punch, which is the thinnest reed I need to use it as an excuse to promote my little bro, who’s suddenly getting well-deserved widespread attention on sites like io9 and ComicsAlliance for his work.) When it […]

Junior middleweight Antonio Margarito finds out as soon as this week whether he’ll get his boxing license in Texas, but there have been two other seedy-seeming incidents overshadowed by that scandal. Although, as you’ll soon see, both are a bit related to Margarito. In one case, the media has stayed on top of it: the […]

Forget the whole “unification” aspect of Ivan Calderon-Giovanni Segura this weekend, even if there hasn’t been a junior flyweight alphabet belt unification bout since 2003. It’s for Calderon’s Ring magazine lineal championship, which is all the belt anyone needs, but it’s more than that. In a 2010 where you can only point to a couple […]

When I was in high school, I’d long been a fan of what was then called “alternative rock.” I’d liked it because I was an outsider, alienated from the popular kids, and much of that music was made by outsiders who were odd in some way. I hated, in turn, all the things that the […]

(The crowd at Tomasz Adamek’s fight is almost as interesting as the fights themselves.) The streets of Newark were a sea of red as I approached the Prudential Center for the heavyweight bout between Tomasz Adamek and Michael Grant. Adamek’s legions of supporters are nothing like the Hollywood-esque fans that stroll in only for main […]