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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JANUARY 19: Manny Pacquiao (R) throws a right on Adrien Broner during the WBA welterweight championship at MGM Grand Garden Arena on January 19, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Same As It Ever Was: Manny Pacquiao Easily Defeats Adrien Broner

0 comments by on 1/22/2019

One of the only assurances in this life is that there are no assurances. Plan all you want but, the universe gets its kicks reminding you who’s actually in charge. If the weatherman says 80 and sunny, prepare to be scraping ice off the windshield of your Ford Fiesta. If your friend says to meet […]

Shawn Porter Defeats Danny Garcia In Tactically Interesting Battle

0 comments by on 9/8/2018

In a battle for control of style Saturday night on Showtime — Danny Garcia the technician, Shawn Porter the frantic Cookie Monster — it took a few rounds for Porter to abandon his ill-conceived plan to try to imitate Garcia. But once he started mauling and slinging junk in equal proportion to quality blows, Porter […]

The Liver Punch: Whose Story Are You Telling?

0 comments by on 2/21/2018

My undergraduate mentor always starts a piece of advice with, “My boy…” I’m 35 and he still does it. He spoke to me that way when I was a precocious 18 year old hell bent on fucking up his own life. He said it to me when I was a driven, if utterly directionless, 23 […]

Pound-For-Pound Top 20 Boxers Update, 12/17

0 comments by on 12/24/2017

It’s been a long time since we’ve done this, so, wow, have things changed a bunch. Beyond just a thinking and debating exercise, pound-for-pound lists have some value for a number of reasons. For one, a lot of fighters aspire to the greatness a consensus pound-for-pound king-dom symbolizes. For another, it’s a good snapshot at […]

CINCINNATI, OH – FEBRUARY 18: Adrien Broner poses before entering the ring to fight Adrian Granados on February 18, 2017 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo by Bobby Ellis/Getty Images)

Stop Caring About Adrien Broner

0 comments by Dick Hercules on 6/29/2017

Seriously, do it. You’re free. You don’t have to live like this. Unburden yourself from the psychological debt accrued by watching potential squandered in real-time. I absolve you. Go outside. Eat an egg. Learn to do a backflip. Your time on earth is finite and valuable. In the first “A Nightmare on Elm Street” movie, […]

The Liver Punch: It’s The Skinny Pedal On The Right

0 comments by on 4/26/2017

Something I have always avoided doing that many people seem to enjoy, or at least pretend to enjoy on Facebook, is looking back and taking stock. I don’t want to think about where I’ve been, what I’ve accomplished, and where I’ve failed. I tell myself that it’s because I am too focused on the present […]

Shawn Porter Bullies, Fouls Andre Berto To Defeat

0 comments by on 4/22/2017

Let’s face it: Andre Berto didn’t need much extracurricular business to lose Saturday night on Showtime, which is what he did. Fella has been past his prime for a long time — his last win over a top 10 welterweight was back in 2011, and he’s propped up his career with the occasional unexpected victory […]

2016 Fight Of The Year Nominees

0 comments by on 12/28/2016

Welcome to The Queensberry Rules’ annual year-end boxing awards, continuing throughout this week. 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, which will finish after, is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging […]

2016 Round Of The Year Nominees

0 comments by on 12/27/2016

Welcome to The Queensberry Rules’ annual year-end boxing awards, continuing throughout this week. 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, which will finish after, is a pu-pu platter of awards ranging […]

The Liver Punch: Where’s This Going?

0 comments by on 10/25/2016

I’m relatively certain that I’ve never written anything complimentary about Vanes Martirosyan. In fact, I’ve probably never given any in or out of the ring action of his more than a perfunctory eye roll. But it’s been a slow couple of weeks and fuck it, here we are. Yesterday, Martirosyan went on a miniature Twitter […]

Keith Thurman Edges Shawn Porter In Action Fight

0 comments by on 6/25/2016

Keith Thurman got by Shawn Porter Saturday on CBS, but it was anything but easy. The scores illustrated just how close it was: 115-113 on all three cards, and it could’ve been that way either way for either man. And we got plenty of punches swapped in a bout that came close to living up […]

NEWARK, NJ – AUGUST 14: Steve Cunningham and Antonio Tarver exchange punches during the Premier Boxing Champions Heavyweight bout at the Prudential Center on August 14, 2015 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

Antonio Tarver And The End Of Innocence

0 comments by on 2/16/2016

Boxing reached a new low this week, and for once it wasn’t Roy Jones, Jr. or Floyd Mayweather leading the charge. It may seem incredible, but in a week which saw Jones offer to fight a fan for a $100,000 prize, Mayweather tour the U.K. and charge £70 for a photo and Manny Pacquiao compare […]

Danny Garcia Scratches By Robert Guerrero

0 comments by on 1/23/2016

It’s not a Danny Garcia fight unless he scrambles up “unimpressive” with “victory.” And Saturday on Fox, Garcia spent the first half of his bout with Robert Guerrero being unimpressive, only to take over thereafter and remind folk why we once viewed the welterweight as a potential top 10 pound-for-pound fighter. He came away with […]

I See No Changes: Adrien Broner Says He’s A New Man; It Doesn’t Matter

0 comments by on 9/30/2015

Well the good news is that Adrien Broner is really super serious about fighting again. No more shenanigans. Straight and narrow. No more games. Say goodbye to the strippers, the sex tapes, the blood orgies, and whatever other horrifying things he did with his time. I mean, he can’t be insincere, can he? No boxer […]

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