That is some weird entourage Floyd Mayweather had over the weekend: a pop star beloved by tweens (Lil Wa… oops, I mean Justin Bieber), a pair of rappers (Lil Wayne, 50 Cent) and a refugee who couldn’t pursue a professional boxing career in Cuba turned promotional refugee who cannot pursue a professional boxing career in […]

What if I told you I had Miguel Cotto beating Floyd Mayweather 117-111 (nine-three in rounds)? Well, you can relax, I didn’t. Don’t puke all over your Pernell Whitaker t-shirt and rush to defecate on my Twitter just yet. I scored the fight 116-112 Mayweather, giving Cotto rounds 2, 5, 6 and 8. But if […]

At their respective peaks, the appeal that Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. shared wasn’t merely that they were the best in the world. It was that they were so brilliant at what they did, they went beyond “doing something as well as a human being can do it” to “almost superhuman.” When Pacquiao treated […]

After the Ring announced changes to their championship policy, the response from the boxing community was swift and unilateral – people hated it. Tim detailed his contentions with the new policy here and announced that TQBR will no longer recognize the Ring championship and ratings anymore. Dan Rafael also announced that he would be abandoning […]

Don’t follow boxing very often, but you want to know the gist of Saturday’s mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather and Miguel Cotto? Follow boxing all the time, and want one place that rounds up all the links about the junior middleweight showdown you could ever want? This Ultimate Guide to the May 5 pay-per-view bout is […]

So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2012, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto on May 5 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: the stakes of Mayweather-Cotto; the undercard, previewed; keys to the fight, parts I and II; a Rabbit Punch column; the final preview and prediction. Next: the ulitmate guide. There […]

So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2012, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto on May 5 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: the stakes of Mayweather-Cotto; the undercard, previewed; keys to the fight, parts I and II; a Rabbit Punch column. Next: a staff roundtable. There are worthwhile reasons to watch […]

So continues our marathon coverage of one of the biggest fights of 2012, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto on May 5 on HBO pay-per-view. Previously: the stakes of Mayweather-Cotto; the undercard, previewed; keys to the fight, part I. Next: the Rabbit Punch column takes on Mayweather. Mind. Matter. How do Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and […]

(We break from our regularly scheduled coverage of Floyd Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto due to Mayweather saying some “animated… wild, over the top, bad language, wild” things.) The good news is, Floyd Mayweather’s villainous “Money May” persona is back. That’s also the bad news. Mayweather has been boring during his time of playing nice leading […]