2004 Olympic gold medalist Andre Ward captured the NABO super middleweight title by systematically pounding Jerson Ravelo into submission Friday night in the Caymen Islands.  Ravelo, a former Olympian for the Dominican Republic, was completely out-classed in this contest with his awkward style enabling him to last as long as he did.

Nights like Saturday make being a boxing fan — with all the annoyance of being made to feel like you’re in some weird cult — all worthwhile. Showtime and HBO put on competing double-headers that produced one action fight after another. Middleweight (160 lbs.) titlist Arthur Abraham answered questions about whether he deserved his 2006 […]

Boxing can turn the stomach either through seediness or grisliness. The 2006 middleweight (160 lbs.) fight between Arthur Abraham and Edison Miranda managed both. Miranda broke Abraham’s jaw in two different places, and after that, every time he hit him in his badly misshapen face, blood spilled out copiously. It was hard to watch. It […]

Headlining this Saturday’s HBO Boxing After card from Memphis, TN is a WBC welterweight title fight between Andre Berto (21-0, 18 KOs) and Miguel Angel Rodriguez (29-2, 23 KOs).¬† Initially billed as a WBC title eliminator once Floyd Mayweather opted for the greener pastures of retirement the bout became a full fledged title fight.¬† For […]

With its recent offerings HBO’s recently maligned Boxing After Dark series seems to have finally hit its proverbial stride.¬† At long last it seems that the brass at HBO have finally realized that in order for the sport to progress there has to be a display organic growth.¬†¬† With Mayweather’s recent retirement and De La […]

“Don King Presents: Prizefighter,” the sole aspirant to the “Fight Night” throne atop realistic boxing video games for the at-home console gets off to a promising, if not exactly good, start. Amid considerable hype — fitting for a game named after Don King, no? — comes 2K’s “Prizefighter,” which boasts a fun career mode and […]

Guess who’s back/Back again/Sean is back/Tell a friend…. ¬†Much like Tupac Shakur I have emerged from death’s door, not to drop yet another musical opus but¬†to force my thoughts and opinions¬†upon a world that could give a rat’s arse about them.¬† Having just gotten over my annual summertime Ebola virus outbreak and walked away from […]

I want to second much of what SC at Bad Left Hook said about this column by Dan Wetzel. Wetzel argues that the difference between boxing and mixed martial arts is that MMA has “major fights” and boxing doesn’t. As SC answers, boxing has had plenty of major fights — especially over the last year […]

Floyd Mayweather’s retirement last week left behind a cross between a ripple and a void, affecting everyone’s list of who’s the best in the sport, shuffling the plans and/or pecking order of stars like Oscar De La Hoya and Kelly Pavlik and shifting the sands in boxing’s top division, the welterweights (147 lbs). And that’s […]

Those of you who have been reading this little blog of ours for any length of time know that we are some boxing video-game loving fools.¬† In fact Tim even broke down the history of boxing video-games in this excellent post¬†from back in February.¬† This Tuesday Don King Presents Prizefighter hits the stores and from […]

The biggest star of Saturday night, Kelly Pavlik, took care of business like he was supposed to in a brilliant knockout performance over a serious underdog, but there were three shocking results Saturday night in the HBO and Showtime double-headers. Sergio Mora pulled the upset and became the first graduate of “The Contender” TV show […]

Finally I get a fight prediction right.¬† I picked ‘Contender’ champion Sergio Mora, a 5-to-1 underdog, to dethrone Vernon Forrest tonight.¬† Don’t believe me?¬† Check here.¬† Too many people where overlooking the fact that Forrest’s last couple of fights were not exactly against world beaters.¬† I knew Mora would train his ass off for a […]

Floyd Mayweather’s befuddling retirement throws a wrench in the plans of boxing’s other biggest star, Oscar De La Hoya, since as of this writing, their September rematch is off. So where does De La Hoya go now? We’ll use the question as a jumping off point to examine both that and a number of other […]

OK, maybe I’m naive, but I never bought the sincerity of Floyd Mayweather’s retirement threats… until now. Kind of. Swanson PR has provided me a statement moments ago that I saw over at BoxingScene.com. A rep at Swanson told me Mayweather — the best boxer alive, when he actually is fighting these days — is […]

When the Old Grey Lady herself profiles a boxer, that boxer has officially made it. The New York Times turned its spotlight on consensus middleweight (160 lbs.) champ Kelly Pavlik this week, a rare bit of “Paper of Record” attention to the sport. The Times rehashed not only the obligatory “boxing is struggling” line it […]