(From left to right: Derry Mathews, promoter Eddie Hearn, Anthony Crolla) Anthony Crolla makes his first competitive start this weekend since the night he almost killed Heywood rival Kieran Farrell. In a suffocating December brawl, the 22-year-old Farrell developed an acute subdural haematoma that threatened his life. He survived but not without consequence. Farrell lost almost a […]

(Tom Casino, Showtime) ShoBox made its 2013 debut Friday, and while the year's inaugural installment shared some common traits with last year — Al Haymon-advised fighters appeared in both bouts — it bucked others, in that it did live up to the mission of the Showtime program, which is to test young fighters to see […]

Your correspondent is in Japan and, as such, chooses to feature weird Japanese stuff at the top of the schedule. People tell you how strange Japan is, but it’s all true. Say what you like about them, though, the Japanese do all their own stunts. Everything is made here, including the awesome fights that went […]

Your Pu Pu Platter of boxing awards has arrived. So sorry it's late to your table. It's still 2012, so it remains warm to the touch. Please savor its many flavors. In the first installment, that flavor was heavy and serious. In the second one, that flavor is mostly light and fluffy. Just add "of […]

It was a busy few months for those who would be the elite boxers in the world, regardless of weight. Of the 20 people on this list, 11 of them fought since the last update in October, including two making their debuts. Exiting is junior middleweight Miguel Cotto, alas, coming off his loss to Austin […]

Every day is Boxing Day at TQBR, even the day after. Apparently the origins of the holiday don’t have anything to do with people punching each other in the head, but we can pretend. On a somewhat related note – have you seen our enormous selection of year end awards, the TQBRies? That’s not actually […]

Happy holidays, friends. Santa Claus knows if you've been naughty, and he knows if you've been nice, and he will come down your chimney and if you've been naughty, be prepared to get KTFO. It's a short edition of Quick Jabs, just something to warm your Yule log and keep you up-to-date on a smattering […]

When trying to decide between Nonito Donaire and Juan Manuel Marquez for Fighter of the Year, it comes down to a dilemma common to judging individual boxing matches: Do you like the man who did the consistent good work in superior volume, or do you like the man who made a stunning statement with that […]

Neither Brandon Rios nor Mike Alvarado strike one as the type to have any kind of use for frills; not the kind used to trim clothing, nor the kind that you might find on the neck of a lizard, nor in any oriental pigeons. Certainly, it's not anything they want soiling one of their bouts. […]

(Orlando Salido, left, Juan Manuel Lopez, right; credit: Amanda Kwok, Showtime) To say that in the 9th round of Orlando Salido-Juan Manuel Lopez II "Lopez threw caution to the wind" would imply that he usually had any to spare. But, for once, he actually did proceed with some modicum of caution March 10 on Showtime […]

Welcome to The Queensberry Rules' annual year-end awards, continuing throughout the week and into next. Here's how we do it around these parts: The major categories are Knockout of the Year, Round of the Year, Fight of the Year and Fighter of the Year. The final leg is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging from […]

(Shane Mosley, left, embracing the man who beat him in his last fight, Saul Alvarez) When it was floated out there that we could potentially be seeing 147-pound titlist Paulie Malignaggi defending his strap against a comebacking Shane Mosley next year at Barclays Center, it was met immediately with complete disdain from the boxing community. […]