tyle=”width:100%; height:550px;” class=”mceEditor”>As an aspiring boxing scribe nothing really compares to covering a fight live at ringside.  There are sights, smells, and a palatable buzz that just doesn’t get conveyed when watching at home on the television.  The best examples of these sensory explosions are generally are produced by the small local club show that is […]

Feb. 16. That’s when Kelly Pavlik and Jermain Taylor square off for a second time, kicking off a hearty stretch of big, big, big fights, much as they did when they met for the first time last fall and set up the historically great finish to 2007. If you’re like me, you can’t wait to […]

The most I expected out of ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights card from Pittsburgh and Showtime’s Shobox card was one decent knockout and a bunch of underwhelming action for the rest of the evening. So I settled in to my old habit of arguing with my latest issue of Ring Magazine… Says to self: Can you […]

This week’s “Quick Jabs” pinpoints what’s stalling a star’s career, visits the ongoing tsunami that is Mike Tyson’s life, ridicules a “Make It Rain”-off between two big names in the sport and previews the weekend’s battles. Additionally, I’m instituting a new feature as I begin getting news announcements from promoters et al at my request, […]

When Jorge Arce pulled out of his Feb. 9 fight with an injury, he deprived us not only of his in-ring pocket rocket explosiveness, but also of what surely would have been another flamboyant spectacle of a ring entrance. The ring entrance is all part of the show in boxing. Arce is becoming one of […]

The decision to enter the world of professional boxing is never an easy one to make for a young practitioner of the sweet science.  Uncertainty and doubt creep in and turn a once confident boxer into a one who is concerned about the darkness the great unknown is shroud in.  Still most amateurs enter into […]

No time for a snappy introduction so lets just jump right into it shall we?  Boxing After Dark Shines Little Light on Heavyweight Division Saturday night former amateur standout Alexander Povetkin out worked and out hustled “Not So Fast” Eddie Chambers over 12 somewhat exciting rounds.  My much respected compadre Tim summed up the fight […]

On Saturday, young blood coursed through the moribund heavyweight division, and in a replay of the previous Saturday’s big fight, young-ish blood coursed through the old veins of two legendary ring warriors. A review, some analysis and a look ahead for all the combatants:

Four rather unfocused “Quick Jabs” here touching on a number of shorter topics, from Rocky to an ongoing lottery:

With the recent string of engrossing and entertaining action that has taken place inside the squared circle as of late it is hard to imagine why we collectively keep referring to the heavyweight division as boxing’s “glamour” division.  Still this weekend we are treated to a most interesting heavyweight match-up as Eddie Chambers will travel […]

Perhaps Amy Winehouse is bringing crack back into vogue. Because somebody’s smoking something to think that Floyd Mayweather’s the greatest fighter ever. Too often lately, people have been spouting that nonsense.

At long last, Saturday evening, shortly after midnight the wait was over and the first official mega-fight of 2008 was underway. In the midst of a wild and rather rambunctious Puerto Rican crowd, Felix Trinidad gave an effort to his highest honor but in the end, it wouldn’t be nearly enough as the sports former […]

This past Friday night I covered a local professional show put on by Galvans Promotions in Ft. Worth, TX.  The card featured two young prospects you happen to be brothers as well as very accomplished amateurs. Club shows such as these are the lifeblood of the sport as it offers fans to witness prize fighting […]

When it don’t fit nowhere else, I shoehorn it into this here “Quick Jabs”:

It’s been one unbelievably busy week for the fax machines of boxing promoters and managers. More fights — many of them big-time — were signed, almost signed, agreed to, or scrapped in the last seven days than I’ve seen in a long while. So here’s a run-down of all the battles involving at least one […]