2021 articles

1 min read 2021-12-31 23:31:20

2021 Boxing Knockout Of The Year Nominees

Welcome to The Queensberry Rules’ annual year-end boxing awards, continuing over the course of a week. Here’s how we do it around these

2 min read 2021-12-16 02:37:52

When I was in college, I was very briefly in a band. The sum total of our accomplishments was playing three open mics and recording a cover of

4 min read 2021-12-14 08:21:55

They say you should never meet your idols, for they will only ever let you down. This past Saturday night, Reymart Gaballo learned that one should

4 min read 2021-12-10 21:15:09

For some time now, Devin Haney has been discussed as a sort of spiritual successor to Floyd Mayweather Jr., a boxing mastermind if there ever was one

3 min read 2021-11-30 07:53:45

Initially, it was difficult to narrow down who had the more compelling post-fight story between George Kambosos Jr. and Teofimo Lopez Jr. Kambosos

1 min read 2021-11-29 04:45:42

Over the decades, junior featherweight has produced an outsized number of excellent fights, and one more needs to be added to that list. That would

11 min read 2021-11-28 03:09:00

"Oh, Beast, how you frightened me!" she cried."I never knew how much I loved you untiljust now, when I feared I was too lateto save

1 min read 2021-11-22 21:23:34

The grin was the tell. Even as his brow leaked and his mouth hung open for occasional gulps of air, Terence Crawford couldn’t suppress the smile

1 min read 2021-11-20 01:14:36

Saturday night from the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas, welterweights Terence Crawford (37-0, 28 KO) and Shawn Porter (31-3, 17 KO) will meet in a

1 min read 2021-11-16 05:26:28

Remember in Wayne’s World when Garth hacks into the mainframe or whatever and reroutes a satellite signal to beam Crucial Taunt’s performance

1 min read 2021-11-09 07:28:53

It was an odd sort of thing ahead of Canelo Alvarez vs Caleb Plant, seeing the former in People magazine (of all places), talking about his daughter

1 min read 2021-10-13 00:25:16

Like many boxing writers, I became a fan of the sport before I started putting pen to paper. My first voluntary exposure to boxing came in 2008 when

1 min read 2021-10-12 05:01:07

There’s a myth in boxing that one can be taught to fight. Sure, you can walk into any gym on earth and a nice man in a beret — most likely named

1 min read 2021-10-04 11:00:00

Happy October!This is a favorite time of year for us at EC, and in keeping with our "witch theme" this month, we've gathered some ideas

1 min read 2021-10-01 04:51:28

One of the best ever, Manny Pacquiao, retired this week. He ends his 26-year career with a record of 62-8-2. The TQBR gang examines him and his