Victory for Freck Billionaire! He won $6,000 from Floyd Mayweather in a court dispute over a record contract. The rapper has the freckles, obviously, per the stills in the video above where he disses Mayweather, and now he’s almost to billionaire status. If you dislike cussing, do not watch the video. If you dislike Mayweather, […]

This column was overdue for a renaming, so it’ll keep reshuffling newspaper names around. In this edition of The Manny-Floyd Clarion Bee, we augur the likelihood of Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao finally happening, from some goat guts laying around; mock the latest ignorant trash talk of Floyd’s poppy; similarly heap disdain upon the latest potential opponent […]

The main thing you’ll want to be watching this week is the latest installment in Showtime’s Super Six tournament Saturday night between American super middleweights Andre Ward and Allan Green. Unless, that is, you enjoy sending the message to boxing’s powers-that-be that you hate it when six of the best fighters in a division fight […]

Could there be any two more contrasting victories that those in the main events of the two biggest televised cards of the weekend? On Fox Sports Net/Fox Sports en Espanol’s Top Rank Live, junior flyweight champion Ivan Calderon outslicked Jesus Iribe to the extreme to take his customary decision win. Early on, Calderon looked vulnerable. […]

A commenter who clearly has it in for referee Arthur Mercante, Jr. mentioned the above fight recently in a list of Mercante’s sins. It was news to me. Until Saturday night, I’d thought Mercante was a pretty good ref. And maybe, on the sum of his career, he still is. But between the above clip […]

The rest of June and all of July (at least based on what’s scheduled as of this writing) offer very little in the way of ultra-top-notch boxing cards, with only two weekends currently slated for what I consider fights that are all that important slash competitive. This week is the beginning of that trend. Now […]

Sorry I’d left and gone away for a couple days, friends. I’ve been traveling, and finishing up a freelance Ring magazine piece that was a spinoff from this blog entry a whiles back. But I left you in the capable hands of Scott and Carlos — check out both of their wonderfully written pieces. Although […]

NEW YORK CITY — Freakish endings are the order of the day in boxing, at least over the past month in the junior middleweight division. First we he had the catapult fight with Kermit Cintron flying out of the ring against Paul Williams, and after Saturday, now we have the knee injury/rejected towel-throwing fight where […]

NEW YORK CITY — Greetings from Yankee Stadium. The live blog starts when the HBO doubleheader kicks off, so come to this blog entry around then. I only ask two things: 1. I’ll post round-by-round, and will try to respond to comment in between. So if you’re expecting more than that, I can’t help you, […]

NEW YORK CITY — Some logistical snafus have made it so I couldn’t watch every undercard bout in full, but I’ve got things sorted out and I’m ringside for the televised portion of the card. Until then, here are some observations on the undercard, plus a note on last night, in chronological order. The Boxing […]