Let’s start with an all-caps rant about junior bantamweight Nonito Donaire’s likely next opponent July 10 on Showtime, one of the following three men: Jose Lopez, Victor Zaleta or Hernan Marquez. Lopez and Marquez lost their most recent fights, and Zaleta’s not done anything. It’s good that Donaire won’t be on yet another Pinoy Power pay-per-view […]

From time to time along comes a fight where both warriors are so carnivorous and so offensively skilled that every time you think of it, you’re ALREADY on the edge of your seat. On three occasions from 2007 to 2008, that fight was Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez. They meet for Vazquez-Marquez IV Saturday on Showtime, but […]

Golly, it’s been quite a stretch since we had an update in the ol’ Prediction GameTM. And at long last, we shook up what was effectively a nine-way tie, thanks to a four-fight sequence where a whopping eight people picked all four fights correctly — and all of them are in a better neighborhood because […]

I was in the minority at the Theater at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, as I had come to New York simply to see a good fight card. The majority of the crowd seemed more interested in asserting tribal dominance than witnessing pugilistic excellence. Passion among boxing fans can be a beautiful thing. Arturo […]

TQBR Prediction Game 2.0 is in effect for Michael Katsidis-Kevin Mitchell! Repeat! It’s in effect! Don’t forget the rules. We’ll hit a short Katsidis-Mitchell preview first then cover the rest of the packed weekend schedule besides the HBO doubleheader, for which the game is not in effect. Katsidis-Mitchell, Saturday, United Kingdom. It’s upsetting this fight […]

I came of age during the notorious (pun intended) East Coast-West Coast hip-hop rivalry in the early/mid-1990s. It was a time when most of the males (and many of the females) in my predominantly white, suburban high school would rattle the trunks of their hand-me-down cars with booming bass, flash gang hand signals in the […]

The four boxers in HBO’s doubleheader on Saturday have… reputations. Some of it’s fair, some less so. In the opener, there are the two “quitters,” Nate Campbell and Victor Ortiz. Ortiz out-and-out quit against Marcos Maidana last year and hasn’t lived it down. Campbell claimed to be seeing spots from a head butt he suffered […]

We now live in a world where the best boxer in the world is also a congressman. Although it’s not 100 percent official, pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao has claimed to win a seat in the Philippines by a “landslide,” a remarkable feat for a remarkable man who’s lived a remarkable life. Mind-blowing. It’s not that service […]