Huh? Two headlines today: “Joe Calzaghe: I’m bored with boxing” — Mirror.co.uk“CALZAGHE: I’M AS HUNGRY AS EVER” — Sportinglife.com

There’s a huge fight ahead this coming weekend pitting two of the top three fighters — Cristian Mijares and Vic Darchinyan — in one of boxing’s three best divisions — junior bantamweight (115 lbs.) — but before we get to that, there are some scraps of news floating about to collate and make fun of […]

Just a few days ago, Joe Calzaghe, the Welsh boxer and BBC “Sportsman of the Year,” proposed that schools teach boxing. And nobody laughed it off. In fact, the Sports Minister shares Calzaghe’s opinion. My question is: Should boxing be taught in schools?

I have to admit that I was quit impressed with Antonio Escalante’s third round TKO victory over Mike Oliver Friday night.  I never really had much of an opinion on Escalante before.  Sure the El Paso fighter has been showcased on more than a few occasion on Telefutura’s Solo Boxeo series, but most fans will most […]

This morning, it’s unanimous that hometown referee Marlon B. Wright performed a tremendous disservice to the sport in Montreal last night when he acted to save Canada’s Lucian Bute from a possible knockout loss that would have handed his super middleweight (168 lbs.) title belt to Librado Andrade. It is almost entirely unanimous that Andrade […]

Blame Canada. Our neighbor to the north arguably cost an admirable fighter his first title with some home country referee cooking. Either way, the attempt to do so was utterly shameful. For 10 out 11 rounds, Canada’s Lucian Bute completely controlled fellow super middleweight (168 lbs.) Librado Andrade, even if Andrade was wearing him down […]

Because I erroneously gave the wrong date in an earlier post for tonight’s Lucian Bute-Librado Andrade bout, I feel compelled to rectify my error by strongly suggesting you tune in to Showtime tonight, not tomorrow evening. It won’t be there if you wait until tomorrow. It helps that the fight could be sensational. Bute and […]

Friday night, McKinney TX, based junior welterweight (140 pounds) undefeated fighter Albert Rodriguez (8-0-1, 4 KOs) makes a return to the ring after a two year hiatus. At the behest of my good friend Joby Gaytan, I woke up at an ungodly hour to catch some high intensity sparring as Rodriguez, prepared for his fight […]

Cristobal Cruz! Just a couple months ago, I wrote that he was a television-friendly fighter who may never win a title. Scratch ‘im off the list! Nice to see a guy like that make good. Versus Network broadcast a card Wednesday night that featured a title fight and the debut of a hot prospect fresh […]

Manny Pacquiao’s got weight issues. Or, at least, his trainer Freddie Roach does. The way Pacquiao and his team have been talking about his poundage in advance of his Dec. 6 welterweight (147 lbs.) bout with Oscar De La Hoya is wildly inconsistent, as if his own waistline was as unpredictable as Lindsay Lohan’s or […]

Alan Greenspan, famous for warning against “irrational exuberance,” helps me warn against a similar phenomenon. IT’S EASY SOMETIMES in this sport of ours to watch two men duke it out and, based on the outcome of that one span of combat between the duo, come to some rather hyperbolic conclusions about each warrior’s fundamental merits. […]

We’re still working through issues associated with switching over from the old site, Ring Report, to the new site, The Queensberry Rules, and for those of you who managed to find us and leave comments that disappeared into the ether: The overlords at MVN.com, the hosts of this modest boxing blog, are diligently doing everything […]

It’s really still just soaking in, the enormity of what ol’ Bernard Hopkins did Saturday night to lil’ Kelly Pavlik. Hopkins, 43, was 17 years older than Pavlik. Seventeen. Years. Older. And he looked old, too, in his most recent fight in April. Stranger still, Hopkins, who usually fights like a snail, threw more punches […]

I’ll have more to say later, but for now, I say this: I have never had as much respect for Bernard Hopkins as I did tonight. I have never been so entertained to see a fighter I love — Kelly Pavlik — beaten so soundly by a fighter I dislike. This was an historic win […]

Welcome to our new site. We were Ring Report — a rather generic name Sean and I inherited when we came aboard MVN — and now we are The Queensberry Rules — a rather esoteric name, but one that sounds cooler, at least to our ears. Like a lot of MVN sites, we’ve undergone a […]