I’m getting Pac-Man/Marquez II Fever, but until March 15 rolls around and junior lightweight (130 lbs.) superstar Manny Pacquiao finally rematches with the ultra-talented Juan Manuel Marquez, there are “Quick Jabs” to be had. “I’m going out of my mind (going out of my mind)…”

Tim did an excellent job in summarizing the major fights taking place this weekend but I figured I would inject my two cents as well. Haye – Maccarinelli I have to admit that I was very high on Haye prior to breakout performance against Jean-Marc Mormek.  For all the talk of his lack of focus […]

Considering that the weekend previous produced what I believe was no worse than the third-best fight in about 20 years, a letdown was inevitable for the just-completed weekend’s loaded boxing schedule. And yet, I left Saturday night strangely sated, given the circumstances. There were a number of compelling battles on TV, each meaningful and/or dramatic […]

While the boxing world awaits this Saturday’s anticpated fights so noteworthy news has been announced.  Allow me to share…  Ricky Hatton signs with Golden Boy This news probably warrants its own post but until the details are released I will just share the announcement.  It really comes as no major surprise to industry insiders as […]

Maybe, despite the obvious difference in quality between the recent boring heavyweight unification showdown (Klitschko-Ibragimov) and the cataclysmic little man showdown (Vazquez-Marquez III), you still have an itch to see two huge dudes walloping the bejesus out of each other. If so, and you’re willing to sacrifice just a few pounds of earth-shaking power, David […]

After Wladimir Klitschko’s dreadful looking victory over Sultan Ibragimov two weekends ago, stock in heavyweight title fights is at an all time low.  This perception could all change after this weekend when Samuel “Nigerian Nightmare” Peter (29-1, 22 KO’s) takes on Oleg “The Big O” Maskaev (35-5, 26 KO’s) at the Plaza de Toros in […]

With several fighters from the current crop of boxing mega-stars and superstars, you could see them coming around the pike. First example: Floyd Mayweather, Jr. always had the skill to be the best, but it took top guys like Roy Jones, Jr. and Bernard Hopkins slipping, plus star-siphoning turns against the popular Arturo Gatti and […]

This week’s “Quick Jabs” visits with the presidential campaign, Israel Vazquez’ trunks, what happens when a fighter blows his big chance… and then dips into “The Heavy Bag” for some very quirky news release-y news.

It’s a busy weekend ahead for boxing, with no fewer than three significant fights ahead that we’ll preview here during the weekdays: A meaningful (and if you can believe it, potentially entertaining) heavyweight battle between Sam Peter and Oleg Maskaev; an important lightweight (135 lbs.) face-off between rising star Juan Diaz and dangerous Nate Campbell; […]

Just superb. If you love boxing, or even if you don’t, Saturday night showed why the sport, for all its flaws, is capable of providing entertainment that is incomparable. It’s almost too bad, in a way, that junior featherweights (122 lbs.) Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez waged such a thrilling war in MARCH, because how […]

I will have more to say at some point, likely tomorrow, but I have three quick, simple thoughts about Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez III. It was breath-taking, and it deserves more words than I can give on short notice. It deserves words from Homer or somebody, frankly. 1.  This was better than the first two, or, […]

When featherweights (126 lbs.) Robert Guerrero and Jason Litzau stood face to face before the opening bell, I glanced at Guerrero, who looked ticked off, and then at Litzau. “Wow. Litzau looks freaked out or something,” I thought. The Showtime’s commentators noted much the same. And for several rounds, Litzau fought like someone who was […]

Thursday wasn’t exactly a good day for boxing. It was not, as some would have it, a “nail in the coffin”-type day, either. While news emerged that talks between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson were getting serious for a third meeting that would be one of the more shameless, hideous monstrosities of a boxing abortion […]

Lost in the immense shadow of this Saturday’s mega-fight, the highly anticipated rubber-match between junior featherweights Israel Vasquez and Rafael Marquez, is an intriguing matchup of two explosive fighters a mere four pounds north of the aforementioned duo. This Friday night Showtime will kick off what promises to be a great weekend of fights with […]

The last time Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez stepped into the ring with one another, they fathered a masterpiece. It had everything every boxing fan could ever want. Bravery. Skill. Power-punching. Wild swings of drama. Action. Especially, action. Historic levels, in fact: Their July rematch of their initial March meeting was almost unanimously considered the […]