I worry about this one, this Kelly Pavlik-Bernard Hopkins fight. I don’t worry so much about whether one of my favorites, Pavlik, will win or lose against one of my least favorite, Hopkins. No, I worry about whether Hopkins puts the stink on Pavlik. Placing Pavlik in a ring with Hopkins is like cutting out […]

Vitali Klitschko’s hands got so swollen from hitting Sam Peter at will this weekend in a heavyweight title-winning effort that he had to resort to… baby urine. “Baby wee is good because it’s pure, doesn’t contain toxins and doesn’t smell,” the 37-year old boxer told Bild after he won back the WBC title with a […]

Zoom around the boxing news/commentary sites and for the two winners in Saturday night’s double-header, you’ll find raves that border on the hyperbolic as well as surprising disses. For the two losers, you’ll find generous souls extending the benefit of the doubt alongside dismissals of their entire careers. So, in light of this, in the […]

Heading into tonight, we had two fighters — Antonio Tarver and Vitali Klitschko — whose age made them, rather than familiar and consistent rocks of the sport, unknown quantities. In the end, one of the two came up roses. The other fell to the fresher, younger fighter. I commend you to Sean’s take on the […]

Going into Saturday nights heavyweight fight between Sam Peter and Vitali Klitschko, I was confident, I repeat, confident that Peter would be too much for the un-retired Klitschko.¬† Boy was I wrong.¬† In what could be described as a virtuoso performance by Klitschko as he beat down Peter in such a one-side way that Peter […]

I‚Äôm going to have to agree with Thomas Gerbasi over at Maxboxing, WBC heavyweight title holder Samuel ‚ÄúThe Nigerian Nightmare‚Äù Peter must be seething heading into his title defense against former owner of the green belt, Vitali Klitschko Saturday night in Germany.¬† The usually stoic Peter was visibly agitated at Klitschko, and the promoters of […]

This, ladies and gentleman, is how you talk trash. Antonio Tarver and Chad Dawson have been jawing at one another hilariously in advance of their potentially very good light heavyweight (175 lbs.) fight with plenty of storylines — most notably, that of the older, bigger figure Tarver trying to claw his way back to the […]

Antonio Margarito’s promoter, Bob Arum, explained two months ago to ESPN‘s Dan Rafael why there would be no rematch between Margarito and the only other man who can make a legitimate claim to supremacy in one of boxing’s best divisions, welterweight (147 lbs). The problem, he said, was not Paul Williams’ promoter Dan Goosen but […]

At news.google.com, I have a section for the top boxing news. It’s fascinating what gets selected sometimes. But clearly the fact that Lindsay Lohan’s dad is going to fight for charity is big boxing news, and deserves its spot on my section. And since Jose Canseco donned boxing gear for the same purpose, albeit for […]

Last month I had the pleasure of speaking with New York based prospect Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin while he was away at training camp preparing for his fight with Sam Hill that took place on September 17.¬†¬†A loquacious, undefeated middleweight, Quillin has rapidly become a fan favorite throughout the five boroughs of New York. Possessing […]

I spoke last week with Al Bernstein, one of the best boxing analysts in the biz, about a new project he’s got going that’s, understandably, right up Ring Report’s alley: The intersection of boxing and the Internet. Everyone knows about Bernstein’s broadcast career, in which he did a stint with ESPN and these days can […]

When the brass at NBC announced plans to air a boxing reality show back in 2005, emotions where mixed but the majority of fans and media firmly believed that the expose generated by the network giant would go a long way in restoring boxing‚Äôs position as a major sport in America once again.¬† Expectations where […]

Once upon a time not so long ago, a boxer kissed his opponent on the forehead, then knocked him out, “kiss of death” style. This, from last night, is a little different: In a strange sequence, Nevada‚Äôs Jesse Vargas (2-0) was kissed on the ear and licked on the face by the much taller Trenton […]

Oh, Yuriorkis.

A news release in my inbox from Don King Promotions about the quality Dec. 11 cruiserweight (200 lbs.) showdown between Steve Cunningham and Tomasz Adamek in Newark, N.J. says, simply: “Versus will broadcast the bout live.” Dan Rafael’s blog also reports that the network will broadcast the show. This is THE fight in the cruiserweight […]