By Danny Winterbottom: The total domination of one boxer over his opponent can be an absorbing spectacle to watch as he exerts his mastery of the noble art on his hapless foe. However, in boxing one punch can change everything.

By Dave McKee: In the wake of his brutal November 13, 1982 war with WBA world lightweight champion Ray “Boom-Boom” Mancini, South Korean contender Deuk-Koo Kim lay dead in a hospital, having succumbed to complications arising from a blood clot on his brain. For Mancini, years of guilt and recriminations from a somewhat hypocritical public lay ahead. Everyone knew boxing was dangerous.

By Jason Pribila: I arrived home from Atlantic City at 7:00 am on Sunday morning. I decided that a power nap at a rest stop on the AC Expressway would serve me well. The HBO televised fights lasted a total of 20.5 rounds of a scheduled 22 and pushed my departure time from Boardwalk Hall back to 12:30 am.

By Matthew Hurley: His extraordinary professional career has stretched on for twenty-three years, and although there have been losses, both controversial and spot on, along with some uneven, tentative performances bordering on the tedious, he continues to persevere.

By Jason Pribila: On Saturday night Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez returns to the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, the building where he celebrated his three biggest nights as a professional boxer. First his stock rose as he came up a point short in a fight of the year candidate. Next he started fast and finished strong en route to winning the lineal middleweight championship. And finally he ended a fight with a single punch that earned him “Knockout” and “Fighter of the Year” honors in 2010.

By Jason Pribila: On Saturday Night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Golden Boy Promotions presented “Star Power” Mayweather vs Ortiz. The dust settled, and once again the sport of boxing was left to defend itself as a relevant player on the sports landscape.

By Dave McKee: Is the Mayweather Ortiz controversy the best thing to happen for boxing in years? Almost weekly we read article after article decrying the actions of referees, judges, commissions, and sanctioning bodies. Every week, it seems, the final nail is driven into boxing’s coffin. It’s just a matter of time before the sport vanishes into the dustbin of history.

By John Lumpkin: So when is the moment over? If you shake someone’s hand, is the greeting over when the contact ceases? Do we count the time it takes to step back as part of the equation? Is there a few extra seconds of reflection required to complete the process?

By Mike Sloan: Jim Lampley said it best after Floyd Mayweather knocked Victor Ortiz into orbit with a textbook left/right: “Floyd definitely will not make any new fans with this.” Lampley is right. The majority of boxing fans hated the guy before he climbed through the ropes to take on Ortiz and after he clobbered his foe with what many deem a dirty move, the number of Mayweather detractors grew tenfold.

SecondsOut feature writer Dave McKee recently compiled an in depth guide into what exactly the many belts distributed by the World Boxing Council actually represent. If you want to know how the WBC justify the existence of all their belts read on.