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Nice Guy Mikey Garcia and The Boxing Double Standard; Magno’s Monday Rant

I’ve been a bit out of the loop lately, so I missed the hours prior to Saturday’s Mikey Garcia-Juan Manuel Lopez bout and the hours following it. I missed the backlash stemming from Garcia’s inability to make the 126 lb. limit and then his unwillingness to even try to drop the two pounds to make [...]

Mikey Garcia Destroys JuanMa Lopez in Four, Crawford Stops Sanabria

American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas– The idea that Mikey Garcia (32-0, 27 KOs) was expected by some to walk through the heavy-handed Juan Manuel Lopez (33-3, 30 KOs) seemed far fetched as fight night approached, especially considering Garcia’s inability to make the 126 lb. limit the day before. But, on paper, a one-sided blow-out seemed [...]

Bowe Stopped in Muay Thai Debut

Former world heavyweight champion Riddick “Big Daddy” Bowe’s new career didn’t get off to a very good start. In Pattaya, Thailand, Bowe was stopped in the second round by 30 year old Russian Levgen Golovin. Bowe took repeated shots to his shins, and hit the canvas five times before the bouts end. An Olympic silver [...]

Terence Crawford vs. Alejandro Sanabria: The Boxing Tribune Preview

by Tim Harrison Terence Crawford (20-0, 15 KOs) makes his return to HBO after a successful March 16 debut win over Breidis Prescott. Crawford will take on lightweight contender Alejandro Sanabria (34-1-1, 25 KOs) in the co-feature of HBO’s Boxing After Dark broadcast featuring Mikey Garcia’s WBO featherweight title defense against former titlist Juan Manuel [...]

Mikey Garcia vs Juan Manuel Lopez… Duel in Dallas…

Mikey Garcia (33-2, 30kos) makes the first defense of his WBO world featherweight championship this Saturday against former champion Juan Manuel Lopez, in what could be a very interesting encounter, at the American Airlines Centre, Dallas, Texas. In many ways, this is a throwback fight, pitting the young champion just starting out on his title [...]

The weekend recap plus random insights & musings: This is the Tuesday Meal Ticket!

Hello team and welcome to a belated edition of boxing’s favorite Sunday Brunch (tentatively titled today as the Tuesday Meal Ticket). Today we’re chopping up most of the big fights from over the weekend; from Maidana’s big win, Lara’s stoppage of the tough Perro Angulo and other delectable random musings and insights. This episode is [...]

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    Earlier today, it was unfortunately announced that the sweet science had lost another one of their own, as it was announced that trainer Porfirio “Rudy” Perez has passed away after an 18-month battle with cancer, family members stated. Rudy was most recognized for training Mexican legend, Marco Antonio Barrera, and former champions such as Israel [...]

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    Today it was announced that 24-year-old super bantamweight and interim WBA titlist, Scott Quigg, has inked a new promotional deal with Matchroom Sport. The undefeated Quigg(25-0-1, 18 KO’s), was previously promoted by Hatton Promotions. Matchroom Sport’s Eddie Hearn wasted no time and has already scheduled Quigg to fight on June 29th on a card in [...]

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    Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up

    It was a very light week for women’s fight action. The lone title bout of the week took place in Guerrero, Mexico where Victoria Argueta (11-1, 4 KO’s) met Suri Tapia (7-3, 2 KO’s) in defense of her WBC silver minimum weight title. Argueta, who also holds the Mexico minimum weight title, worked her way [...]

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