Yahoo! Sports will stream the weigh-in live for the much anticipated Bernard Hopkins – Joe Calzaghe light heavyweight battle taking place tomorrow night at the Thomas & Mack Arena in Las Vegas. The weigh-in will be streamed live starting at 5:30 PM ET/2:30 PT. If that only serves to whet your appetite then I suggest […]

Brace yourself people because I am going to drop some mad knowledge on your head.  Bernard Hopkins is a complicated man.  Groundbreaking revelation isn’t it? All lame attempts to be humorous aside, former middleweight (160 lbs.) champion and current light heavyweight (175 lbs.) champion Bernard Hopkins is your classic riddle wrapped inside of an enigma.  […]

Even if you don’t follow boxing closely, you’ve heard of Bernard Hopkins. He’s considered one of the best middleweights (160 lbs.) ever, and in a division that once featured Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Robinson and others, that’s saying something. His title reign lasted 11 years, with victims like Felix Trinidad and Oscar De La Hoya […]

Between two great weekends past and ahead comes your weekly “Quick Jabs,” AKA a series of lesser thoughts, with a helping of “Round and Round,” AKA an examination of some fights in the works.

My compadre Tim did a most excellent job summarizing the tantalizing fights of this past weekend so I will spare you a complete rehashing of the results.  That is not to say that I don’t have a thought or two regarding the entertaining scraps and thanks to the incredibly low standards of MVN I have […]

The dueling, promising HBO and Showtime double-headers made for a satisfying night of boxing. On Showtime, the light heavyweights (175 lbs.) delivered one tremendously excellent fight, young Chad Dawson’s decision win over veteran Glen Johnson, and one decent fight in surprising Antonio Tarver’s decision win over the uninspired Clinton Woods. On HBO, the welterweights (147 […]

This weekend should be great, what with the nasty-good double-headers on HBO and Showtime I previewed here and here, but I find myself strangely looking forward to April 19’s light heavyweight (175 lbs.) contest between two living legends, future Hall of Famers and top-five fighters of any weight, Bernard Hopkins and Joe Calzaghe. I know […]

Each of the eight boxers who comprise the excellent HBO and Showtime double-headers have something big to prove. Miguel Cotto wants to prove his continual worthiness for a career-defining match with the sport’s pound-for-pound best, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Antonio Tarver wants to prove that, contrary to the beliefs of everyone but himself and his inner […]

For years former heavyweight title holder Chris Byrd (40-4-1, 21 KOs) has sought his fame and fortune in boxing amongst the behemoths of the heavyweight division.  For a man barely 6 feet tall and maybe 220 pounds soaking wet, his merits in the sports glamour division were pretty damn incredible.  Twice the man named Byrd […]

This weekend marks a return to high-level, quality boxing match-ups when competing double-headers Saturday night on HBO and Showtime bring us stars big and small in all stages of evolution. There is the certifiable “now” star in Miguel Cotto, one of the top attractions, and talents, in the sport, capable of filling Madison Square Garden […]

If they are to be believed, and I have no particular reason to doubt them, Don King Productions got some good traffic with its March 27 free webcast boxing show. A news release from DKP puts the traffic at 400,000 total page views and 200,000 unique page views. This, for a card that featured in […]

I feel remise in my blogging duties due to what I would like to refer to as the unavoidable demise of the human race.  Ok, the truth is I’ve just been hella busy with the various demands of life as a self described boxing writer and corporate whipping boy.  While the nation has its attention […]

This week has shined a lot of attention on Floyd Mayweather, Jr.’s foray into professional wrestling, the success thereof, and what it all means in the big picture. For instance: Said foray by the world’s best boxer into Wrestlemania made Sports Illustrated this week, always a mark of legitimacy. Others have written about how Mayweather’s […]

Somewhere, somehow, Kassim Ouma has stopped being Kassim Ouma. The once-exciting former junior middleweight (154 lbs.) titlist used to throw more than a hundred punches a round, and was undaunted by the notion of getting hit in return. On ESPN2 Friday night, his opponent, Cornelius Bundrage, had something to do with him looking less like […]

This is great news: Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez II did 400,000 pay-per-view buys, a record for a bout at lightweight (135 lbs.) or under. It was a great fight, as was Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez III at 122 lbs., which had a nice live gate and appearances at ringside by the likes of Jack Nicholson and […]