Looking at all the news this week, it’s all pretty much either about the junior welterweight mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton, or it’s gossip about fights in the works. So we’ll keep this once-promised Quick Jabs column as an all-Round And Round column, with a tiny bit on the rest of the most […]

It’s just a conversation starter. You gotta admit, it’s a decent conversation starter. I love how absolutely THRILLED Manny Pacquiao looks. Is Manny, who met Bill Clinton this week — yes, it’s a real picture, provided by a publicist — gonna sock ‘im in this photo, though? Also, if I know you guys very well, […]

I’ve rounded up the best links and a number of informative videos for the mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton Saturday night. Whether you’re a newbie or die hard boxing fan, this should just about top you off.

(From left to right: Freddie Roach; Manny Pacquiao; Ricky Hatton; Floyd Mayweather, Sr.) I’ve been daydreaming about this fight, this Manny Pacquiao – Ricky Hatton fight, for months and months and months. When was the last time the biggest fight of the year also stood a tremendous chance of being not only a good fight, […]

So continues our marathon coverage of the biggest fight of the year, pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao against junior welterweight champion Ricky Hatton, culminating in a live blog of the bout Saturday. Today — here, a note on the undercard, and later, my final prediction. Previously — keys to the fight parts I and II. Tomorrow […]

So continues our marathon coverage of the biggest fight of the year, pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao against junior welterweight champion Ricky Hatton, culminating in a live blog of the bout Saturday. Tonight — keys to the fight part II, with a focus on the mental, strategic aspects of the combatants. Previously — keys to the […]

So begins our marathon coverage of the biggest fight of the year, pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao against junior welterweight champion Ricky Hatton, culminating in a live blog of the bout Saturday. This morning — keys to the fight part I, with a focus on the physical aspects of the combatants. Tonight — keys to the […]

(If only Jermain Taylor had done more of this over the weekend in real life against Carl Froch rather than virtual Roy Jones, Jr.; screen cap from Fight Night Round 4) As a boxing fan, I’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of Fight Night Round 4 this summer. It hits the stores for XBox 360 […]

You might note the addition, starting today, of some new advertising on the site — as of now, some Google ads inserted into and between the individual blog entries, and some text link ads, too. There could be more new ads to come, albeit of a different variety. I’ve been working on doing this for […]

Hello, all. We’ve got a busy week ahead here at The Queensberry Rules with pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao trying to take the junior welterweight championship away from Ricky Hatton Saturday night on HBO pay-per-view. One might say it’ll be a volcanic week, with the quantity of material to be spewed forth and with the subject […]

On HBO Saturday night, junior featherweight Juan Manuel Lopez won the most remarkable one-sided fight I’ve ever seen. Lopez was truly awesome. And yet somehow he was overshadowed by Gerry Penalosa, who withstood ungodly amounts of punishment and never quit before his corner wisely threw in the towel. I was emotional when it was stopped. […]

If junior middleweight Cory Spinks got a close decision win I disagreed with over Deandre Latimore on Showtime Friday night, I can’t begrudge him too much. He’s now been in three straight close decisions. He lost the first two, against Jermain Taylor and Verno Phillips. And Spinks had to gut this one out to win […]

(Deandre Latimore works the pads; photo credit: Bob Barton) Deandre Latimore, above, could be the junior middleweight to rid us of Cory Spinks once and for all. He gets his chance tonight on a Showtime card out of St. Louis that also features nice junior welterweight prospect Devon Alexander, which I’ll preview momentarily. Also discussed […]

As before, I participated in Showtime’s poll of boxing writers for one of their upcoming fights, even though I’m 0-3 when I do so and it’s clearly cursed my prediction record. The entire results of the poll — this time on the super middleweight bout between Carl Froch and Jermain Taylor — are after the […]

Every time I produce a pound-for-pound list — that is, an accounting of the best fighters in the world, regardless of size — it prompts a heated debate about my placement of some boxer or the other. That’s not a bad thing. It’s kind of the point. I’m trying to be a tastemaker of sorts […]