“Prehistoric terror bird jabbed like boxer,” reads the headline describing the newly-discovered killing methods of the creature above. Circle, stick and move has worked for that long, at least: 60 million years. Some pro boxer, some day, must take the nickname “Prehistoric Terror Bird.” If I could, I would, and I’d combine it with a […]

Even with the way my boxing news feed fills up with stories about James Toney vs. Randy Couture, each day that goes by without me mentioning it feels like a personal triumph. Many of the headlines are along the lines of “Mixed Martial Arts and Boxing Face Off with Couture vs. Toney” or something, and […]

Maxboxing’s Steve Kim has an interesting interview with Kathy Duva, the woman running the show at Main Events, in advance of this weekend’s Tomasz Adamek fight. I entirely agree with her approach of keeping fighters busy, with or without HBO money, and was quite surprised to see her say that Adamek’s stay-busy bout with old […]

(Jean Pascal, left; Chad Dawson, right) MONTREAL — If nothing else, last night’s light heavyweight fight between Chad Dawson and Jean Pascal offered a pretty rich tapestry for fingers to be pointed, for credit to be given and for perceptions to be altered. There were a lot of nuances, although there was also a considerable […]

(From left: Nigel Collins, holding the Ring belt; Chad Dawson; Jean Pascal; promoter Gary Shaw) MONTREAL — Boxing weigh-ins are rarely a good place for news, unless somebody punches somebody else a night early. Rather, they’re a decent spot for getting info on the periphery. So, even though there was some amusing posturing at the […]

MONTREAL — Canadia, you ARE beautiful. This town’s percentage of hot women is, approximately, 99 percent, and they all dress so well and look so cool. Its architecture is lovely, too. So far, besides reenacting Chad Dawson-Jean Pascal posters, Mr. David P. Greisman (above) and myself (below) have enjoyed Montreal’s Mexican food and Irish pubs, […]

MONTREAL — One of the things that makes boxing so captivating is watching people do things I can’t do, probably never could do and probably never would want to do. Speed vs. speed match-ups cover the first two categories. Boxing is always about tiny adjustments, about minute amounts of space being the difference between consciousness […]

(Devon Alexander, under stress; via) Over the weekend, everyone completely lost their sh*t over what happened in the Devon Alexander-Andriy Kotelnik junior welterweight fight. It was rather unlike boxing fans. They’re well-known for refusing to see conspiracy theories without any hard evidence; for refusing to write off a talented young fighter who encounters difficulty for […]

Like Tim, I wholeheartedly support the use of the Ring championship policy to determine who the true champions in boxing are. However, that doesn’t mean I universally agree with the Ring rankings, or the decisions of the Ring rankings panel. (Just because News of the World wasn’t quite the masterpiece that A Night at the […]