Poll Position: Boxing Fans Cast Their Vote

[Tuesday May 13, 2008] Psyched For Floyd/Oscar 2? The first tussle was reasonably close, and there were enough folks that thought Oscar De La Hoya handed Floyd Mayweather his...  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Oct 14, 2007] Who Should Pacquiao Fight Next? Everyone in and around 130 pounds wants a piece of Pac Man. That's where the money, and the challenge lays. So who should get...  View Poll Results ...

[Friday Aug 24, 2007] Which Future Fight Gets You Going? We're in the home stretch for the year in boxing. Fall's a comin' and that means that the summer hiatus of meaningful fights is...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Jun 4, 2007] Voice Your Choice: HBO PPV Or Showtime Freebie? Options, options, options. Saturday HBO is going head to head with Showtime, and your DVR is going to be workin' it. HBO would...  View Poll Results ...

[Friday May 11, 2007] Who's Gonna Steal The Show On May 19? JT, Spinks, Miranda Or Pavlik? On Saturday, May 19, 2007 at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee Jermain Taylor will entertain another fighter moving up a...  View Poll Results ...

[Saturday Apr 21, 2007] Will De La Hoya/Mayweather Live Up To The Hype? May 5th, if you haven't heard, Oscar De La Hoya will fight Floyd Mayweather. The fight is being billed as the Super Bowl of...  View Poll Results ...

[Friday Mar 23, 2007] Who is the best technical boxer from Mexico in history? Mexican fighters are known for their ferocity and willingness to trade punches and disregard defense. But there have been many...  View Poll Results ...

[Tuesday Jan 9, 2007] Who should Sam Peter fight next? Those who had questions about Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peter’s future in the heavyweight division have questions no...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Jan 1, 2006] Who will be fighter of the year in 2007? It’s hard enough selecting fighter of the year for 2006, the year just past, although there’s a small battalion of worthy...  View Poll Results ...

[Tuesday Dec 4, 2007] Who should Cotto fight next? Miguel Cotto added an extra seven pounds of weight to his 140-pound frame and we all saw the results when he won the WBA...  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Nov 19, 2006] Who would you rather see fight? Boxing has been called “the sweet science of bruising,” “the noble art,” “the gentlemanly art of self-defense,” plus a host of...  View Poll Results ...

[Saturday Nov 4, 2006] Will Floyd Mayweather Jr. retire after his next fight? At the advanced age of 29, pound-for-pound king “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather Jr., flush off his one-sided victory over the...  View Poll Results ...

[Saturday Oct 7, 2006] Should Mike Tyson fight a woman? Nobody knows how to build a gate like Mike Tyson. From his earliest years in the spotlight as the fistic wunderkind placed on...  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Sep 3, 2006] Do you think Samuel Peter beat James Toney? Judging fights is subjective, even without outside interference, so it must be especially hard to judge a fight of major...  View Poll Results ...

[Tuesday Aug 8, 2006] Will history repeat itself when Rahman fights Maskaev? Saturday night at the Thomas and Mack in Las Vegas and on HBO PPV, Hasim “The Rock” Rahman defends his WBC heavyweight crown...  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Jul 23, 2006] What should Gatti do next? Few fighters have given us as many thrills, spills and chills in recent years as Arturo “Thunder” Gatti, but the New Jersey...  View Poll Results ...

[Saturday Jul 1, 2006] Are TSS readers smarter than readers on other sites? Intelligence is a hard thing to measure. The race-slanted IQ tests notwithstanding, some people are book smart, some people are...  View Poll Results ...

[Tuesday Jun 20, 2006] Will Antonio Tarver’s loss affect the credibility of Rocky 6? Before Antonio Tarver fought Bernard Hopkins in Atlantic City, much was made of the fact that the Magic Man put on the pounds...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Jun 11, 2007] What should Bernard Hopkins do next? You’ve gotta hand it Bernard Hopkins. He’s been telling everyone how great he is forever and few took him seriously when it...  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Jun 4, 2006] What is the proper punishment for Jose Luis Castillo? Boxing remains the sport of the unexpected, where up is down, in is out, good is bad, black is white, all things being never...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday May 22, 2006] What did you feel about the Barrera-Juarez judge's bad math? Marco Antonio Barrera and Rocky Juarez fought a wonderful war at the Staples Center in LA Saturday night. It was a classic...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday May 1, 2006] Will De La Hoya retire if he loses to Mayorga? On Saturday night the Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya fights, after 21 months of inactivity since his KO loss to business partner...  View Poll Results ...

[Wednesday Apr 19, 2006] Who wins when Byrd fights Klitschko? This weekend in Mannheim, Germany, the blurry heavyweight picture might get a little clearer. When Klitschko and Byrd first...  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Apr 2, 2006] Is the reign of the American heavyweight almost over? We in the States love the way the words Johnson, Dempsey, Tunney, Louis, Marciano, Liston, Ali and Tyson roll off the tongue....  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Mar 26, 2006] Is Lamon Brewster the best heavyweight fighting today? Everyone who loves the heavyweights looks forward to the nights Lamon Brewster fights. At 6-foot-1 and 230 pounds, he’s a small...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Mar 19, 2007] Who should Hasim Rahman fight next? Hasim Rahman proved one thing Saturday night. A fat James Toney can't beat him. Toney’s one of the best boxers, the best...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Mar 13, 2006] Who wins when Rahman fights Toney? The heavyweight mess starts to right itself Saturday night when James “Lights Out” Toney challenges Hasim Rahman for the Rock’s...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Mar 6, 2006] Should Tarver-Hopkins be pay-per-view? There’s no disputing that Antonio Tarver and Bernard Hopkins are great guys, great talkers, and great fighters, but both have...  View Poll Results ...

[Saturday Feb 18, 2006] Who broadcasts the best fights? As befits the fight game, the ongoing cable wars are as bloody as ever. HBO has ruled the airwaves since time immemorial with...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Feb 6, 2006] Who wins when Mayweather fights Judah? There are millions of reasons for this fight to get made, not least of which are two marquee names – Floyd Mayweather Jr. and...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Jan 30, 2006] What happens if Gatti fights Baldomir? Arturo Gatti’s TKO of Thomas Damgaard (no Danish pastry he) established once again that there’s a lot of fight left in good old...  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Jan 22, 2006] Should Pacquiao and Morales fight a third time? Manny Pacquiao’s dismantling of Erik Morales at the Thomas and Mack in Las Vegas opened a lot of people’s eyes – to El...  View Poll Results ...

[Wednesday Jan 11, 2006] Will Zab Judah resurrect his career? After the shocking loss of his crown to Carlos Baldomir at the Madison Square Garden Theater Saturday night, Zab Judah, now...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Jan 2, 2006] Will 2006 be a better boxing year than 2005? According to the last Sweet Science poll, when asked if 2005 was a good or bad year for boxing, the approximately 500...  View Poll Results ...

[Thursday Dec 21, 2006] Was 2005 a good or bad year for boxing? With the year's end upon us, it’s time to take a good hard look at the twelve boxing months just past. No review of 2005 would...  View Poll Results ...

[Wednesday Dec 7, 2005] Are you in favor of open scoring? Crazy scoring is one of the things from which the game suffers. While boxing is the most subjective of sports, sometimes the...  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Dec 4, 2005] What should Bernard Hopkins do next? Jermain Taylor’s inability to decisively beat Hopkins (assuming he beat him in either fight) suggests Bernard still has what it...  View Poll Results ...

[Thursday Nov 24, 2005] What happens in the Taylor-Hopkins rematch? Undisputed middleweight champ Jermain Taylor rematches with former kingpin Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins on Saturday,...  View Poll Results ...

[Thursday Nov 10, 2005] A year from now, who will be the dominant heavyweight? While the not-totally-unexpected retirement of Vitali Klitschko, after tearing his medial meniscus during training for Hasim...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Nov 7, 2005] If Vitali Klitschko fights again, who should he meet? The perpetually on-again/off-again fight between WBC champion Vitali Klitschko and Hasim Rahman is a harbinger of things to...  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Oct 30, 2005] Is Jeff "Left Hook" Lacy headed for greatness? It looks like IBF super-middleweight champ Jeff Lacy (20-0, 16 KOs) is going places. He’s big. He’s strong. He’d rather fight...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Oct 17, 2005] What happens when Klitschko meets Rahman? Vitali Klitschko (35-2, 34 KOs) fights Hasim Rahman (45-5-1, 33 KOs) at The Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas on Saturday,...  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Oct 9, 2005] Will Samuel Peter eventually be heavyweight champ? A lot of hopes were dashed when Samuel "The Nigerian Nightmare" Peter, the “future of the heavyweight division,” took a licking...  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Oct 2, 2005] What happens in the Corrales-Castillo rematch? Rematches of classic fights are rarely as good as the first time around, and this fight should be no different, but rarely does...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Sep 26, 2005] What happens when Tarver fights Jones? Based on his last few outings, most people believe Roy Jones no any longer has what it takes, but this fight got made, and this...  View Poll Results ...

[Friday Sep 16, 2005] Does Morales deserve a rematch with Pacquiao? Erik Morales’ decision loss to Zahir Raheem last week was a bona fide shocker; a candidate for upset of the year; a fight that...  View Poll Results ...

[Friday Sep 2, 2005] Who wins when Peter fights Klitschko? Something’s gotta give on September 24 when Samuel Peter (24-0, 21 KOs) meets Wladimir Klitschko (43-3, 40 KOs) at Boardwalk...  View Poll Results ...

[Saturday Aug 27, 2005] Which heavyweight in his prime would have had the best chance of beating Vitali Klitschko? Many fight fans believe Vitali Klitschko walks on water, but heavyweight history is replete with champions who captured the...  View Poll Results ...

[Friday Aug 19, 2005] Where do you get your boxing news? The boom and bust nature of boxing is reflected the boom and bust nature of the media’s relationship to the sport. There was a...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Aug 15, 2005] Did Saturday’s bout between Rahman and Barrett feel like a title fight? Many who watched Saturday’s WBC Interim Heavyweight Championship between Hasim Rahman and Monte Barrett, whether they were...  View Poll Results ...

[Wednesday Aug 10, 2005] Will the winner of Rahman-Barrett fight Vitali Klitschko? The winner of this weekend’s clash between Hasim Rahman and Monte Barrett for the WBC Interim Heavyweight Title has been...  View Poll Results ...

[Wednesday Aug 3, 2005] Should title fights be changed from 12 to 15 rounds? When Bernard Hopkins put it all on the line against Jermain Taylor and lost his middleweight titles by split decision, there...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Jul 25, 2005] Who is the greatest middleweight of all-time? The middleweights have always represented the best of both worlds, possessing the speed of the lower weight classes and the...  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Jul 17, 2005] Will Bernard Hopkins beat Jermain Taylor in a rematch? After losing his middleweight belts to Jermain Taylor Saturday night, Hopkins has said he is going to invoke the rematch clause...  View Poll Results ...

[Saturday Jul 9, 2005] What happens when Hopkins fights Taylor? This is the fight everyone’s been waiting for. In one corner we’ve got Bernard Hopkins, aka The Executioner, the man who took...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Jun 27, 2005] Who was the greatest 140-lb. champ in history? Floyd Mayweather may be the world's best pound-for-pound fighter, and his latest performance against Arturo Gatti only...  View Poll Results ...

[Friday Jun 17, 2005] What should Mike Tyson do next? We’ve watched Mike Tyson’s life and career spiraling out of control seemingly forever. The latest episode – quitting on his...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday Jun 6, 2005] Which is the best boxing movie of all time? Denizens of Hollywood love boxing – and who can blame them? What began as a casual flirtation turned into a passionate...  View Poll Results ...

[Friday May 20, 2005] Whose career would you have preferred to manage? (Compensation equal) Different eras, different styles – in and out of the ring – but all hugely successful in their own way. Each of these fighters...  View Poll Results ...

[Wednesday May 18, 2005] Which Sport Is The Most Like Boxing? The good thing about boxing is that it relates only to itself. Boxing has been called everything from the sweet science of...  View Poll Results ...

[Monday May 9, 2005] Which Is The Worst Foul? Maybe it’s true and rules are made to be broken, but when rules in boxing are broken, the results can be severe. The evolution...  View Poll Results ...

[Saturday Apr 23, 2005] Which Heavyweight Had The Heaviest Hands? Speed kills, but so does power, especially in the right hands. The best heavyweights in history had the ability to bob and...  View Poll Results ...

[Wednesday Apr 13, 2005] Whose life story would make the best movie? Thomas Alva Edison, aka the Wizard of Menlo Park, invented the motion picture camera in 1891. Three years later he filmed a...  View Poll Results ...

[Wednesday Apr 6, 2005] Who really is the best heavyweight fighting today? We return to the present and ask you about the current crop of heavyweights this week. Officially, there is no undisputed...  View Poll Results ...

[Wednesday Mar 30, 2005] What heavyweight fight produced the most excitement? In his thoughtful analysis of the heavyweights –  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Mar 20, 2005] Who should Erik Morales fight next? Erik Morales has a lot of options after defeating Manny Pacquiao.  View Poll Results ...

[Sunday Mar 13, 2005] How do you think Manny Pacquiao vs. Erik Morales will end? It’s Manila Ice versus Tijuana Heat when Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales meet at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas on Saturday, March...  View Poll Results ...