Welcome to another edition of The Southpaw, our Deputy Editor’s weekly take on boxing beyond the news: I’ve recently had the pleasure of spending an extended period of time around a woman whose views on gender role and feminism in society are…well, pretty much directly opposed to mine, since I’m a walking beer commercial who [...]

There was once a period in which legitimate people engaged in debates as to whether mixed martial arts was “better” than boxing.  Men and women would devote newspaper inches and televised minutes in a seemingly serious attempt to solidify one sport as superior to the other, a display reminiscent of fifth-graders arguing about whether movies [...]

Like many fight fans on Saturday night I found myself flipping back and forth from HBO’s boxing card and UFC 148. As a life long boxing fan I never cared much for MMA, but found myself intrigued by the Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen rematch as well as Tito Ortiz vs. Forrest Griffin III. Luckily [...]