It seems like Manny Pacquiao can do no wrong as of late in becoming a huge international star and impressing every time he steps into a ring. On the opposite end of the spectrum is Floyd Mayweather Jr. It was bad enough that Floyd went on a racist tirade about Pacquiao, but he now has […]

Still desperately hoping for the Pacquiao vs Mayweather mega-fight? Well it’s really not going to happen anytime soon, cause it looks like they’re already settling for Mosley instead. Shortly after Bernard Hopkins pulled out the race card by saying that Manny has never faced an African-American fighter, “Sugar” Shane Mosley tweeted that he has spoken […]

Back in August, Kimbo Slice sounded truly excited to be training for his jump to boxing. Now, the year is almost over, and it’s sounding like the honeymoon stage is wearing off for former YouTube sensation. His promoter, Gary Shaw, talked to ESPN about postponing the boxing debut cause Kimbo can’t seem to focus on […]

Our friends at BadLeftHook brought to attention a report from ESPN, saying that Antonio Margarito had a fractured orbital bone and will be having surgery on Tuesday. The Mexican lost a lopsided 12-round decision to Manny Pacquiao and was brought to the hospital following the bout. Pacquiao, who noticeably slowed his pace and let go […]

The story of the week is combat sports has turned from any of the actual fights on the IFC, WEC, MFC, UFC or boxing cards into the story of Antonio Margarito and his training partner Brandon Rios making fun of Freddie Roach’s Parkinson’s disease. The story and the resulting fallout has given us a glimpse […]

Combat sports interviews don’t come much better than Freddie Roach. Savvy enough to give the interviewer material to chew on, erudite enough to educate the viewer or reader, experienced in the business enough to have authority on his opinions and inside enough to give esoteric details. As for the substance of Roach’s arguments, even if […]

This is episode 3 of the HBO 24/7 series leading up to the WBC Super Welterweight Championship bout between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito. The PPV bout happens this weekend on November 13, at 9pm EST and will be held in the Cowboys Stadium. For more on the biggest boxing fight of the year, do […]

Some of you don’t like boxing talk here, but our combat sports cousins often grapple with issues that either relate to or spill over into our universe. In this particular case, there are a number of ways to parse Roach’s bold statements. Roach thinks this is a simple matter of Mayweather ducking Pacquiao. While he […]

Here’s how Bad Left Hook opens their always excellent live coverage of tonight’s boxing PPV: For the many who won’t be plunking down their hard-earned coin on tonight’s marginal and rightly-criticized HBO pay-per-view card headlined by Shane Mosley taking on Sergio Mora, fear not! You can still get real-time updates, round-by-round scoring and analysis here at Bad […]