We’ve already previewed and predicted the two biggest fights of the weekend but there’s a lot happening this week besides. Let me be your Sacajawea. (Also, have I mentioned you need to get your predictions in for the prediction game ASAP? I have, I know it, but I just want to remind you again for […]

It’s a duel a decade in the making, and it’s here: Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Shane Mosley have both signed to fight one another May 1, giving 2010 the best and most important boxing match on its calendar so far. The welterweight showdown won’t heal all the wounds left by the abandonment of Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao, […]

Comes now the major U.S. television debut of Edwin Valero, the electric lightweight who’s the biggest puncher in the sport today but has gobs of flaws and a messy life outside the ring. Even though it’s his opponent Saturday, Antonio DeMarco, that Showtime has nurtured, make no mistake that Valero is the focal point of […]

From time to time, it occurs to me that I never have any action shots on the blog. It’s always stuff like Hieronymous Bosch paintings or people dressed up as gorillas or the occasional boxer standing or sitting around. So in honor of that, I’ve chosen an action-oriented graphic that relates to one of the […]

June 16, 2007, Uncasville, CT Lou DiBella, who promotes Stevens, had promotional options on Dirrell in the event that he won. But DiBella was so disgusted by the way Dirrell fought, he doesn’t plan to pick up the option and said he doesn’t want to ever have Dirrell on one of his cards again. – […]

I got invited to do a “Syllabus” at Bookforum, the literary review magazine, so naturally I leaped at the opportunity. The idea was to do a list of essential boxing books. You can read it here (free registration required). In addition, there’s a review at the site and in the print edition by Katherine Dunn […]

Even though the boxing schedule for the week lost its marquee attraction, the canceled welterweight showdown between Shane Mosley and Andre Berto once booked for Saturday, the schedule is still jam-packed to the point of being a Heironymus Bosch painting — on Friday in particular — with nice little fights. Consider: Jesse Brinkley-Curtis Stevens, Friday, […]

Here we go with our first standings recap in the prediction game, which I figure we’ll do every two fights. The two fights this time were, obviously, the featherweight bouts Juan Manuel Lopez vs. Steven Luevano and Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Rogers Mtagwa on Jan. 23. (We need a good, catchy name for the game, by […]