By Carlos Acevedo of The Cruelest Sport.

Welcome to another edition of Sound & Fury, the boxing column that blackens eyes and skips clichés. This week TCS takes a look at the asterisk that belongs to Antonio Margarito-Panama Lewis comparisons, offers some creative advice–free of charge–to Golden Boy Promotions, and offers thoughts on recent fights involving Marcos Maidana and Giovanni Segura. Read the rest here...

by Andrew Harrison (Safe Side Of The Ropes)

It’s difficult not to feel it for Messrs. Hershman and the folks over at Showtime after Mikkel Kessler’s sudden and unfortunate departure from their creative Super Six tournament. The half dozen competitors vying for a semi final berth have (once again) rather abruptly become five and will likely, if sense prevails, morph into four. Dumping late entrant Allan Green out of the mixer completely in order to salvage the competition may now be a necessary evil, yet in doing so, the move would more or less make the points scoring malarkey of previous rounds well, pretty much redundant in all honesty (read more).

By Carlos Acevedo of The Cruelest Sport.

Now that Antonio Margarito has gotten a license from a vending machine in the lobby of the offices of the Texas Combative Sports Commission, his fight with Manny Pacquiao is officially on. And with the looming bout, apparently, comes a maelstrom of criticism, outrage, and pompous advice sure to last as long as the buildup to the fight itself. Read the rest here...

By Carlos Acevedo of The Cruelest Sport.

The Super Six suffered another body shot when Mikkel Kessler was forced to withdraw from the tournament today because of an eye injury. This is a serious blow to the World Boxing Classic, which has taken its share of clouts since its commencement and is looking slightly punchy at this point from the beating. Read the rest here...

By Carlos Acevedo of The Cruelest Sport.

Antonio Margarito has become the sanctimonious hobby horse of the hour. In a comical hearing not exactly the dramatic equivalent of Jimmy Stewart in Anatomy of A Murder or Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird, Antonio Margarito, shot down by a 5-1 vote against, was denied a license to fight by the California State Athletic Commission. Insisting that the doctored knucklepad was the sole work of his trainer, the Renfield-like Javier Capitello, Margarito will have to go elsewhere in the United States for a license. Read the rest here...

by Andrew Harrison (Safe Side Of The Ropes)

As we trundle away from the season of shorts, flip flops and rained off barbecues, solace can be found for British fight fans in the recommencement of the domestic boxing schedule and this year it’ll be slightly different. In a pretty significant move, Sky have rejigged their weekend boxing programme, switching fight nights from Friday late to Saturday prime time. British boxing not only has a crack at gaining a wider audience share, it can also shoulder barge its way onto the sports pages of the Sunday broadsheets. Happy, happy days (read more).

A tune from Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.

Play at high volume and at least try to get to the trumpet solo, which sounds like Sugar Ray Robinson in action. Click here...