Archive for May, 2013
Pugilistic Profiles
Pugilistic Profile #13: The Barbados Demon
The recent controversy arising from Adrien Broner’s apparent contempt for the idea of weight divisions and weigh-ins causes many to get their knickers in a knot and rightfully so. Making weight is a fundamental obligation...
Feature Reports
Guerrero a serious threat at welterweight
Last night at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero defeated Selcuk “Mini-Tyson” Aydin via unanimous decision for an interim welterweight title and a spot in what might be called the Mayweather-Pa...
In Boxing Veritas
In Boxing Veritas #2
“I had been sent to Rahway for a robbery charge and 3 years later when I started boxing they re-opened up my murder trial. The judge said I was to say nothing in the courtroom in my defense. The television rights brought ...
Pulling No Punches
Bute’s return set
Lucian Bute has signed to fight Russian Denis Grachev in Montreal on November 3, his one and only tune-up bout before a return match with the man who demolished him this past May, Carl Froch. Grachev, a light-heavyweight, will ...
Feature Reports
A bad case of Tavorisitis?
Some entertaining quotes emerged from yesterday’s official announcement of the postponement of the Jean Pascal-Tavoris Cloud contest, originally slated for August 11 at Montreal’s Bell Centre. While promoter Yvon Mi...
The Top Twelve
Top 12 All-Time Cockiest Boxers
There’s confident, and then there’s cocky, the former being expected of any prizefighter with the guts to step into the ring, but the latter taking confidence and turning it into a spectacle, a display of verbal bol...
Feature Reports
Pascal vs. Cloud postponed
The biggest fight of the year for Montreal has been postponed indefinitely after Jean Pascal reportedly injured his right hand. News that the bout would need to be postponed circulated around the boxing world yesterday when a s...
This Week in Boxing History
TWIBH: July 26, 2008 — Cotto vs. Margarito I
Few championship fights in recent history have been marred by a controversy as serious as that which attended Cotto-Margarito I. A spectacular bout won in the eleventh round by Antonio Margarito via TKO, the debate that raged i...
Feature Reports
Chávez Jr., Martínez Meet in Mexico City
The final scheduled press conference in anticipation of the upcoming battle for the lineal middleweight championship of the world took place in Mexico City last week. Sergio “Maravilla” Martínez and Julio César Cháv...
Pulling No Punches
Mismatch or Farce?
Last night’s fight between Adrien “The Problem” Broner and Vicente Escobedo served the purpose of showing what the opposing sides of the class spectrum look like, and little else. The bout–which came perilously close to b...
