Miguel Cotto didn't have much trouble with Delvin Rodriguez trying to punch him last year. But actress Michelle Rodriguez drunk at a Knicks game? She actually makes him change his facial expression from "nothing" to "something." (via) This is mostly going to be about fights in the works (Round And Round) rather than a news […]

There exists a certain breed of nostalgia that fuels interest in eras long completed in boxing — more specifically, the “Theodore Roosevelt, safari for fun, bending steel beams as a hobby” eras. The ones we generally only have pictures of, if we do at all. The men who boxed then hardly fought in what could […]

He is the walking dead, front and center at many high profile matches, hovering over boxing like the specter of a media coverage cliche. Except he defies aspects of that cliche: He is a celebration of the sport — strange, bordering on supernatural, with beaming laser eyes serving as its brightly glowing highlights. This is […]

(via r/boxing) What can you say about a schedule this meagre? Not much, so I won’t. Take a look at those lovely ladies punching each other in the face up there. More of that, I say. There was meant to be more going on, but Afghani-Canadian junior lightweight whirlwind Arash Usmanee confirmed his status as […]

(Queensberry Rules Radio’s Foley and Connor are only the second-best duo to come from the 80s; via) Happy New Year from Queensberry Rules Radio! Our first episode of 2014 should be fun, as always. There hasn’t been a whole lot of huge news or many significant fights in the last few weeks, but by golly, […]

Rances Barthelemy very well might have been on his way to a resouding win over top junior lightweight Argenis Mendez on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. Instead he got a tarnished one with a knockout victory of Mendez that he earned after the bell rang to end the 2nd round. These two and controversy go hand-in-hand […]

Yes, yes, it’s 1/14 now and no longer 12/13, but this pound-for-pound list of the best fighters in the world regardless of weight is as of 12/13, so THERE. Adrien Broner’s Snickers-level satisfying beatdown by Marcos Maidana made room for a new entry from Asia, and if you recognize Shinsuke Yamanaka above, you probably already […]

Sick of the drip-drip-drip of year end boxing awards yet? Hard to blame you, hard to blame you. So we'll bring out two enormous platters to conclude our 2013 awards. In the first installment, that flavor was heavy and serious. In the second one, that flavor is light and fluffy. Just add "of the year" […]

(Miguel Cotto revels in his hard fought win over Ricardo Torres; photo credit: AP) When Bernard Hopkins effectively ended Felix Trinidad’s run as a world class fighter with an emphatic stoppage in 2001, a sort of vacuum of power was created in Puerto Rican boxing. Era after era, Puerto Rico essentially overachieved in the sport […]

We're at the point where we're starting to get some of the flavor of whether 2014 will follow on the example of a strong 2013 for boxing — not that we ought to read too much into it based on the early-year calendar, which tends to start slowly for the sport. The returns so far […]

"Get me the other bottle. The one I mixed." It has not been the best month ever for strength and conditioning/nutrition guy Alex Ariza. He mocked a fellow with Parkinson's disease and kicked him (Freddie Roach), then had one of his fighters (Brandon Rios) test positive for a banned substance and another (Marcos Maidana) be […]

Tim Bradley started 2013 as a pariah. He emerges from it triumphant. The Queensberry Rules’ Fighter of the Year beat out Floyd Mayweather for the honour, the biggest attraction and best boxer in the sport, and a tier of men who made their names in 2013: Danny Garcia, Guillermo Rigondeaux and Adonis Stevenson. And he did […]