The talk of Floyd Mayweather, Jr.’s return to boxing has advanced beyond wisps of hints of rumors, although a pair of recent stories from trustworthy reporters seemingly contradict one another. On any given day, I think, “Who needs him? He was a pain in the ass, and Manny Pacquiao’s a more exciting pound-for-pound king anyhow.” […]

Here’s the trailer for the “Tyson” documentary, if you haven’t seen it yet. For the same reason as yesterday’s post, there are aspects of the film that I’m not looking forward to: Namely, everyone who writes about the damn thing will say, erroneously, “Boxing is dead. Remember when it was alive?” But unlike with all […]

I’ve hardly said a word about this weekend’s Roy Jones Jr. “March Badness” pay-per-view card that combines boxing and mixed martial arts bouts, because Jones isn’t terribly relevant to the sport right now, and because the boxing-oriented fights on the card aren’t very good, and from what I understand, the MMA-oriented fights on the card […]

In various boxing forums, there’s a neat video circulating from Saturday night of Frank Warren, lightweight Amir Khan’s promoter, clearly signaling in the 5th round to the referee something about the deep cut in Marco Antonio Barrera’s head. Moments later, the ref stopped the fight; if he had done it a round earlier, it would […]

You have to love fights like this when both guys decide they are NOT going to duck, and transparently think to themselves, “Screw it, all I care about tonight is dealing out pain.” It was the wrong fight for the better boxer, Cesar Canchila, and the junior flyweight paid for it when Giovanni Segura scored […]

Back in September, when talented lightweight Amir Khan got blown out in the 1st round, there were a lot of voices who were convinced Khan was not meant for better things, that he was hopeless and had been — you guessed it — “exposed.” Not I. Yes, I said, his chin is problematic, but he’s […]

Kudos to Philippines junior bantamweight prospect Joseph Von Minoza. He clearly was looking for some attention with that hairstyle, and he’s got full buy-in from me. Takin’ this picture to my hairdresser tomorrow…

I have no idea which Lucian Bute Showtime’s Steve Farhood and Nick Charles were talking about — Bute is a big puncher. He had 18 knockouts in 23 wins before Friday night. But they just kept calling the super middleweight titlist a “pure boxer,” over and over again. After a spectacular performance that culminated in […]

(Herby Whyne for sportzframe) There are your combatants for the evening: Ring #2-ranked super middleweight Lucian Bute on the right and tough fringe contender Fulgencio Zuniga, scheduled to go on Shobox. More on those two men “tk,” as we say in the publishing industry, in what will be a very special TRI-VIDEO edition of Quick […]

Along comes a fight this weekend that on the surface, couldn’t be a weirder fight for either man. They’re all wrong for each other. And I’m totally looking forward to it. It’s like alchemy or something — it should be lead, but instead it’s gold. In the affordably-priced, $24.95 pay-per-view headliner out of Great Britain, […]

It has the sound of a trial balloon, but Robert Morales reports that Top Rank boss Bob Arum has reached an agreement with Sergio Mora’s team for a fight with middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik in June or July. And what of Pavlik’s team? Arum, who promotes Pavlik, said that he still has to meet with […]

I write pieces every now and then for The Sweet Science, a very good boxing website, and they recently published another work of mine: “TSS’ Top 9 Unjustly Unloved“ Stop by and check it out. Some of it actually sprung from some recent discussions we’ve had here, about Juan Manuel Marquez, Glen Johnson, Nonito Donaire […]

There are three notable televised boxing cards ahead this weekend — Lucian Bute-Fulgencio Zuniga at super middleweight on Shobox, the pay-per-view card headlined by lightweights Amir Khan and Marco Antonio Barrera, and Cesar Canchila-Giovani Segura II at junior flyweight on Azteca America — but there’s a little bit of unfinished business to attend to from […]

If you were paying attention to the HBO triple-header Saturday night, you may have missed a showy close to the card on Azteca America. Fortunately for us, Willfrank was on the watch, flipping channels to catch junior welterweight prospect Mike Alvarado scoring the gigantic last-five-seconds knockout of Emmanuel Clottey, and he even tracked down the […]

In huge step-up fights Saturday night on HBO, junior welterweight prospect Victor Ortiz and junior middleweight prospect James Kirkland took the wrecking ball to opponents who were meant to provide stiff tests. Mike Arnaoutis and Joel Julio came tumbling down in the 2nd and 6th, respectively, and now Ortiz and Kirkland are now fully graduated […]