I’m not one of these anti-Texas people. I’ve been there once, driving from Indiana to California. I didn’t enjoy the humid heat, but I found nothing to hate. But Texas’ boxing jurisdiction is loathsome. It is nauseating. It’s sleazy, it’s vile, it’s vulgar. Horrible judging, horrible refereeing, nepotism and an utter disregard for the health […]

I first flirted years ago with the idea of a friendly competition whereby friends of the site and myself would see who could predict fights most accurately. (I almost suggested this would be a game of wits, but anyone who regularly predicts fight outcomes knows that the sport quite delightfully can make fools of us […]

I never gave away the Muhammad Ali poster from the t-shirt design contest during the summer, because the winner, Kevin, was only really interested in the Manny Pacquiao bobblehead doll. So here’s the deal. Below is a comic by Kate Beaton. She does really wonderful work; my brother recently bought me her book, “Never Learn […]

Andre Berto announced Monday he is pulling out of his Jan. 30 welterweight fight with Shane Mosley, saying the the destruction in his native Haiti — during which he reports that he “lost several relatives” — has left him “physically and mentally exhausted.” What can you do about that? Berto said he couldn’t fight in […]

When Jake “the Snake” Roberts held a cobra to a helplessly ensnared Randy “Macho Man” Savage and the cobra sunk his fangs into the Macho Man’s shoulder, I was enthralled. When the “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase broke out his inimitable cackle or The Undertaker slammed an opponent into a casket or the “Nature Boy” […]

The above ad may or may not be running in Boxing Digest and other places. PETA was kinda weird about answering my questions about it, saying it was a PSA that would run wherever publications had space for it, since PETA is a non-profit and was hoping pubs would run it for free, although I […]

We’re not supposed to be saying the zed-word, I know. We did the autopsy of Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao and we’d begun moving on. But a development like this — it doesn’t just get buried, never to surface again. This is the kind of thing that hangs around for a while, and we’re going to have […]

This is the time of year when boxing writers begin to forecast who’s “next” in the sport. Ring’s Doug Fischer has already done a great job of running down the list of up-and-coming prospects. Maxboxing’s Gabriel Montoya has compiled a nice list of boxers a notch above that: prospects who could be graduating to contenders. […]

The garden is looking rosy for British boxing right now, with a handful of leading lights in full bloom and a host of promising young bulbs beginning to pop their heads out of the soil and up into the sunshine. In a bid to set up what may be in store for 2010, let’s take […]