Last week’s leaders in the TQBR Prediction Game — Alexmac and Kid Gruesome, aka Scott Kraus — took a gamble on Eddie Chambers. The bet did not pay off. We now have a four-way tie for first place, with Chris, cNceddie, Not Sure (aka Jay Ari Yin) and JB taking over. The only other person […]

The carousel of fights going round and round is moderately skeletal, but there are some noteworthy developments. Among them are the items in the headline and what’s on deck for Librado Andrade, Tony Thompson, Sakio Bika and the possibility of the worst fight that mankind could possibly accomplish. Finally, at long last, Nonito Donaire-Vic Darchinyan […]

I don’t intend to detract from Scott’s marvelous entry just below this one, so make sure you read what he wrote before clicking through here, wherein the topics in the headline are discussed, as well as the rest of the weekend boxing schedule; some thoughts on journalistic standards; the return of Mike Tyson and Solo […]

(You can’t really read the “Mayweather-Mosley bracket” when it’s full-sized, either. Hey, I had to relate this to March Madness somehow, and Golden Boy sent out a news release with this.) I could practically write something every day reflecting on the latest news about Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, as these two welterweights — the […]

Let’s skip over any long discussion about why you can’t see the heavyweight champion of the world, the Ukraine’s Wladimir Klitschko, on U.S. television Saturday. We already covered it here. Ring’s Eric Raskin covered it some more here, with a side of how Klitschko’s American opponent, Eddie Chambers, contributed to that situation. The Sweet Science […]

If someone asks you a question and your answer is “bad stew and diarrhea,” you’re almost certainly in a bad place at that moment in your life. Consider that while Joshua Clottey might wind up as much as $2.5 million richer after his non-effort Saturday in a loss to Manny Pacquiao, boxing fans have been […]

I wrote this for Bloguin Outsider yesterday, to which I’ll be contributing from time to time. I repost it here for TQBR’s regular readers. –Tim Who would’ve thunk it? It may just turn out that the best place to put a boxing match is square in the middle of a football field. And maybe the […]

The game is afoot. Before we get to the standings, I must play the heavy and remind everyone to please follow the rules. We keep getting late predictions, and next time, they won’t count. I don’t like to do that kind of thing, but we have to set SOME deadline, and there’s a chance some […]

(Jed Jacobsohn, Getty Images, captures the fight in microcosm.) Until Saturday night, the last time anyone had an unsatisfactory evening of boxing in an event that involved Manny Pacquiao was in October of 2007, when the Pac-Man fought Marco Antonio Barrera for the second time. The common denominator for Saturday and October ’07? Barrera fought […]