The names Sam Langford and Ed “Gunboat” Smith would be enough to pen an entire shelf-full of books. But while one is often considered one of the greatest fighters to ever smash his mitts into a pair of gloves, the other is largely lost to the wake and smoke trails of history. They fought twice, […]

(via) It's not crazy to think a boxing match could be fixed, that someone took a dive. It's just that sometimes, there's a viable explanation. Like, a boxer gets hit on the temple — a historical knockout button — by a heavyweight with not only a reputation for big knockout power, but evident knockout power […]

Something's up. Powerful boxing manager/adviser Al Haymon (above) is on a signing spree. At the same time, Golden Boy Promotions' Richard Schaefer and Oscar De La Hoya aren't talking about rumors of friction between the two men. Let's do some math. Here's a list of 65 fighters who A. could be considered active; B. are […]

(Pictured above: boxing, for the most part; via) Oh, boxing. The jabs, the constant conflicts and drama, the back and forth action — and that’s just the media side of things! It’s easy to feel let down by the sport lately, and especially in comparison to the whirlwind that was 2013. Danny Garcia got a […]

It was a simpler time when a couple of 12-year-olds could not only be full-time employees of the British Navy, but have a fistfight on the deck under adult supervision. The photo is from Flickr Commons, an incredible repository of digitised versions of the world's public photo archives. I highly recommend you check it out […]

(Mauricio Herrera, left, takes a shot from Danny Garcia, left;

(Tomasz Adamek, left, has his face rearranged by Vyacheslav Glazkov, right; Rich Graessle, Main Events) Heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek has lived by the razor-thin, debatable decision of late, but even with the NBC Sports broadcast team cheering on his fight Saturday evening as though it was close, the judges saw it correctly: Vyacheslav Glazkov won by […]

(Juan Maneul Lopez, left, Daniel Ponce De Leon, right;

The prodigal son returns. Kind of. Rivalries are everywhere in sports. Some start with religion, like Rangers and Celtic. Some are regional, like Georgia and Florida (or insert NCAA football rivalry of your choosing). Some simply boil down to good versus evil as in the case of Carolina and Duke (Go Heels!). Few rivalries though, […]

(Jack Dempsey, left, pretends to punch Harry Houdini, with Benny Leonard’s help) There exists an adage in boxing: “As the heavyweights go, so goes boxing.” It’s a fancy way of saying that most people extract more pleasure out of the sport the larger the fighters are, and the harder they’re hitting each other. It also […]

As you may already know, adorable animals fighting is totally our bag here at TQBR (though obviously we're not in favour of animal cruelty). These taxidermised squirrels going at it totally fit the bill, then, since they were already dead when they were taxidermised (we hope).  Anyway, enough about squirrels, let's talk about humans fighting. There […]

Thrown fights in boxing in the past decade or so have been hard to prove; many things that might look thrown can't be certified as such, and often we get just wisps of evidence or allegations from one source who is not as credible as we'd like. That one above from last year, via

Whatever complaints you had about the Canelo Alvarez-Alfredo Angulo pay-per-view, Jesus Soto Karass didn't care. He was having a

Allegedly Floyd Mayweather is into kidnapping now, especially if you steal his pretty pretty earrings. Quick, someone make a photoshopped picture of Manny Pacquiao giving Liam Neeson's "I will find you and I will kill you" speech to Mayweather! Allegedly. The only news outlet I can find to have covered the story with original reporting […]

(Alfredo Angulo objects to referee Tony Weeks stopping his fight with Canelo Alvarez; credit: Tom Casino, Showtime) From the opening seconds of the 1st round until the fight's end — more on that very soon — Canelo Alvarez rained down full force, total leverage power shots on Alfredo Angulo of such resounding violence that it […]