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Perhaps you don’t remember 2006’s Rocky Balboa (and, for the most part, I don’t blame you), but it turns out that the film actually foresaw the state of the heavyweight division four years later.  While the film’s greatest impact on the real-life boxing world remains the fact that it caused Antonio […]

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First and foremost, my apologies for the severe lack of recent updates.  My hope is to not have that happen again.  Needless to say, plenty’s happened in the sport over the last six-or-so weeks.  Here’s a quick timeline, in case you needed some catching up:
Feb 5: Glen Johnson earns a shot at Tavoris Cloud’s IBF […]

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Forget the fact that every Manny Pacquiao fight is worth watching.  While it’s impossible not to like Pacman’s fighting style, his fight with Joshua Clottey carries a ton of significance in the sport of boxing outside of what will take place in the ring on Saturday night.
Let’s start with the venue: Cowboys Stadium in Dallas.  […]

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Two well-known boxing personalities spent some time talking to THE FAN late in week, as historian Bert Sugar joined Thursday’s Prime Time Sports, and former IBF junior featherweight titlist Steve Molitor stopped by Saturday’s Sports Central.  If you missed either, you can find them right here.
Sugar joined Bob McCown and John Shannon on Prime Time to […]

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It’s certainly not a busy weekend in boxing (the Olympics tend to take precedence over the relatively small-time sports), but we’ve got two quite notable cards that make up six of the weekend’s big seven, and a decent Friday Night Fights main event to round it off.  Time’s short today, so we’ll point-form it:
1. Gerry […]

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The big news of the week: Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Sugar Shane Mosley will do battle in Las Vegas on May 1st.  It’s a done deal.  Needless to say, it’ll be the first superfight of 2010, and one of only four fights demanded by the sport’s fan base at the moment (the other three being […]

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In looking at this weekend’s boxing slate, which features four title fights and a pair of eliminators, it’s quite abundantly clear that a real weekend headliner is missing.  That attraction was meant to be the Shane Mosley-Andre Berto fight, which was slated for Saturday night in Las Vegas.  As is well-known by now, Berto withdrew […]

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While the sport of boxing might not yet be ready for a Juan Manuel Lopez-Yuriorkis Gamboa showdown, the dream is still alive after fantastic showings by both last Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.  In the HBO card’s main event, Lopez took the WBO featherweight title from Steven Luevano with a seventh-round stoppage in a […]

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The first significant North American boxing matches of 2010 take place this weekend, and, if all goes as planned for Top Rank and HBO, Saturday’s featherweight title doubleheader will serve as a prelude to the much-anticipated Juan Manuel Lopez-Yuriorkis Gamboa tilt.  For Lopez and Gamboa to get past Saturday unscathed, however, might be a tall […]

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Here’s a fast recap of an uneventful weekend in the world of boxing:

Marco Antonio Rubio seems, comically, lined up for another shot at the WBC middleweight title (versions are held by both Kelly Pavlik and interim titlist Sebastian Zbik), after a Saturday TKO of the unaccomplished Rigoberto Alvarez in an eliminator.  After seeing Pavlik stop […]

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