Boxing

Robert Guerrero Pleads Guilty to Disorderly Conduct, New York Gun Possession Charges are Dropped

Robert Guerrero fared better against the New York State justice system than he did against Floyd Mayweather Jr. Today, in a court in Queens County, a judge dismissed gun-possession charges against the four-division champion. Instead, Guerrero pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, a violation that c ... More >>

Robert Guerrero Loses Unanimous Decision to Floyd Mayweather Jr.

There's nothing in sports like the few seconds before and after a boxing match's opening bell, HBO's Max Kellerman once said. It's the culmination of months of anticipation, months of each fighter explaining why his fighting style is ideal for clobbering his opponent, months of 24/7 all-access shows ... More >>

Robert Guerrero and Floyd Mayweather Trade Moral Judgements as Fight Nears

"He believes in God. I believe in God. This fight is not about church. This fight is not about being a Catholic, being a Christian, being a Jew, being a Muslim." It's not a line you'd expect to hear in the media conference call before a big time pay-per-view boxing match. But there was Floyd Maywea ... More >>

The Bay Area Is Producing the Best Boxers in the World

Nonito Donaire Falls to Guillermo Rigondeaux by Unanimous Decision

On Saturday night, Nonito Donaire lost a boxing match for the first time in 12 years. Heʼd won 30 in a row before his much-hyped match-up with Guillermo Rigondeaux, a two-time Olympic gold medalist for Cuba who had been on the fast track to a title shot since defecting in 2009 at the age of 29. St ... More >>

Consumate Hater Floyd Mayweather Jr. Hates on Andre Ward

Earlier this month, Andre Ward noted that he would be rooting for Roberto Guerrero in his May 4 fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. This made sense. Ward and Guerrero are fellow East Bay natives. They've known each other since their days on the amateur circuit. "I'm a support my guy because I came ... More >>

Robert Guerrero to Fight Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Four months ago, Robert Guerrero was a little known fighter, hovering along boxing's margins with scores of up-and-comers and on-their-ways-out. Today, he is in the sport's inner ring, one step away from immortality. On May 4, he'll face the seemingly unbeatable Floyd Mayweather Jr. The Gilroy nat ... More >>

Nonito Donaire Likely to Fight Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux

You ever left a restaurant then suddenly realized that you forgot to feed the parking meter an hour earlier? As you march down the sidewalk, a deep dread sinks down your throat and into the pit of your stomach. You do your best to accept the reality that you will owe the city of San Francisco $72, s ... More >>

Nonito Donaire Ends Superb Year with a Spectacular Knockout

In February 2011, Nonito Donaire knocked out Fernando Montiel with a second round left hook. The impressive performance sent Donaire, who lives in San Leandro, shooting up the pound-for-pound ranking lists, with some boxing observers naming him the third best figher in the world, behind Manny Pacqui ... More >>

Manny Pacquiao Fight: What Happens When the Ride Ends?

It's the kind of pain that makes you want to spike a beer bottle into the street and shout "Fuuuck!" into the sky. What happened to Manny Pacquiao on Saturday night sent men and women into shock, into rage, into despair, into tears -- brought them to their knees. In most sports, your favorite team ... More >>

Nonito Donaire KOs Toshiaki Nishioka to Cap Another Dominant Performance

The first five rounds of Nonito Donaire's fight against Toshiaki Nishioka Saturday night looked very familiar. We'd already seen this same episode three straight times: Donaire's opponents playing it conservatively, backing up and surviving, right hand high and unmoving to guard against the Filipin ... More >>

Andre Ward Comes From a Colorful Line of Bay Area Boxing Champs

With Andre Ward, of Hayward, and Nonito Donaire, of San Leandro, the Bay Area boasts two of the three best active American boxers (behind Floyd Mayweather). It's a proud moment for the Yay. Boxing greatness has tended to emanate from gritty and cold East Coast cities -- like New York and Boston and ... More >>

Andre Ward Pre-Fight Recommended Viewing List

Youtube is doing for boxing what the printing press did for the Bible. We've reached a point where anyone with Internet access can watch every round of virtually any significant prizefight since the New Deal. Literally, as Joe Biden would say. The site has become a bonafide boxing archive. From Lo ... More >>

Andre Ward Gets HBO's 24/7 Treatment for Fight Against Chad Dawson

Boxing is about narrative. People root for a fighter because of his story as much as his left hook. In boxing, each fight is a turning point. That's why the term "crossroads fight" gets overused. Because every fight recalibrate's a guy's career trajectory. And that's why HBO's 24/7 is awesome. It s ... More >>

Karim Mayfield to Defend Title in Kezar Pavilion Bout

Karim "Hard Hitta" Mayfield's long road to success in the cruel world of boxing has led him back to where he started. The undefeated Fillmore-raised slugger -- the subject of an SF Weekly cover profile in October -- will put his junior welterweight belt on the line in an August 17 bout at Kezar Pavi ... More >>

Nonito Donaire Earns Another Title With Unanimous Decision Win Over Jeffrey Mathebula

On March 10, 2001, a 117-pound, 23-year-old boxer named Rosendo Sanchez fought 18-year-old Nonito Donaire in a five round bout at the Pacific Sports Center in Vallejo. Sanchez had won two of his three previous fights and Donaire, born in the Philippines and raised in he East Bay, had won his only on ... More >>

San Leandro's Nonito Donaire Will Fight Jeffrey Mathebula in July

Nonito Donaire, the WBO junior featherweight champion from San Leandro who ranks as the second best boxer of Filipino descent, inked his next fight earlier this week: a July 7 title unification match with IBF champion Jeffrey Mathebula.  This will be the Filipino Flash's second fight at 122 lb ... More >>

High Hopes: Undefeated Mayfield Puts His Title on the Line

Fighting Chance: Boxer Karim Mayfield Fights to Rise in a Dying Sport

Fight Night: Boxing in the Bar

Denizen415, used with permissionDon't take it outside, boys...​The definitions of both "sports bar" and "bar fight" are malleable, it would seem. In a good way. Last night marked another edition of Tuesday Night Fights put on by the San Francisco Boxing Union. Patrons of Roccapulco Supper Club ate ... More >>

Fight Night: San Francisco's Amateur Boxing Championships

Joseph Schell​Sporting crowds make lots of different noises: Cheers, boos -- in Europe they sing. But, every once in a while, a crowd makes that most distinctive of sounds -- the collective reaction of people who've witnessed something that impressed them but they wish they hadn't seen. The "OHHHH ... More >>

Karim Mayfield, Pro Boxing 'Return to San Francisco.' When Did It Leave?

And the winner is ... Karim Mayfield!​Promotional materials for a June 12 evening of fisticuffs at Kezar Pavilion headlined by San Francisco's own Karim "Hard Hitta" Mayfield jubilantly announce "Pro boxing returns to San Francisco." This is the first hometown fight for Mayfield, who grew up in th ... More >>

San Francisco Boxer Ana Julaton To Defend Title After Weekend Loss

anajulaton.com​From the moment Bay Area boxer Ana Julaton dropped into Toronto in the days before her WBA world title fight Saturday night against the city's hometown champ Lisa Brown, Julaton  was heralded, as one newspaper wrote, like the "conquering hero." The Filipina American beauty char ... More >>

The Eyes of the Hurricane

She's been called the female Manny Pacquiao. But can Ana Julaton make people care about women's boxing?

Celebrate Filthy, Disease-Ridden Street Pigeons -- With Pot-Luck Dinner!

Imin YehHappy Year of the Urban Street Pigeon!​Who can name all the cultural luminaries with an inordinate fondness for street pigeons? There's Bert the Muppet, Mike Tyson, Terry Malloy from On the Waterfront ... well, that's three. Good enough for a trend story. Yet this is not a trend story. A c ... More >>

Tyson

Clutch

Documenting an epic concert in Zaire, Soul Power puts on quite a show

With a blunt and searching Iron Mike, Tyson delivers a surprisingly powerful blow

The Shadow Knows

Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao in SF this Saturday

Ticket Giveaway: Melendez VS. Thomson at the HP Pavillion on 6/27

Razor Sharp

WBC Muay Thai: Now Throwing 'Bows in SF

SF Weekly: Day Around the Beard with Chris Daly

A Real Knockout

Fight Night Round 3 comes out a winner, despite taking punches.

Knockout/Tapout

Why mixed martial arts -- a bloody blend of disciplines often called ultimate fighting -- may replace boxing as America's mayhem of choice

Broke, But Not Broken

With Cinderella Man, Ron Howard finally scores a knockout

Best Place to Throw Shit at Bands

12 Galaxies

Round One!

Get KO'd at the Cow Palace

Contending With Life

Years after Evander Holyfield clocked him, boxer-turned-shoeshine-man Seamus McDonagh struggles to conquer his fears -- and to confront Holyfield

The Great Irish Hope?

How amateur boxing matches -- and a bunch of mostly black and Latino fighters -- are resurrecting Irish culture in the Sunset

Smoker

Two men square off over a woman in labor

The Great White Nope?

Paul Nave, a polite, well-spoken product of upscale Marin County, has climbed out of boxing obscurity to fight for a world title. He's a polished fighter, but he's probably going to get his ass kicked.

The Man Who Would Be Ali