by Paul Magno In a perfect world, boxing's fiercest battles would take place inside the ring and the sport's sanctioning bodies would actually facilitate quality match-ups rather than get in the way.... In a perfect world, promoters and managers would realize that making fan-friendly fights will bring in more cash than coddling their fighters with meaningless easy fights and … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2010
Golden Boy Signs a Gift for Victor Ortiz…Here’s Paulie!
by Paul Magno Today, Golden Boy Promotions announced the signing of Paulie Malignaggi and just about everyone in the internet boxing community let out a collective, "Why?" The Brooklyn native, who will turn 30 in November, is coming off a one-sided loss to Amir Khan and a tepid two-fight series with a bloated, used-up Juan Diaz. Before that, we all saw "The Magic Man" … [Read more...]
From Boxing to the Big Screen: 5 boxing stories that should be told
by The Green Machine There are quite a few boxing related movies out there. If you look real hard you’ll find plenty you never heard of and some aren’t as old as you would think. Of course the boxing-themed movie has become rarer these days and any biographical release based on real fighters is almost non-existent. Will Smith did an excellent job in Ali, and Meg Ryan … [Read more...]
BODY BLOW #139: Q & A
BODY BLOW #139: Q & A Show Notes: Is Shane Mosley Still a World Class Fighter? Is Victor Ortiz really the Tin Man? Can Saul Alvarez really fight? Where the hell did they find Carlos Baldomir? What the Hell was Anthony Peterson thinking? Why Gamboa will beat Juanama? Master Feeds for all the shows on Whatchatalkinbout.com … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune’s World Rankings: A Look at the Lightweights
As detailed earlier, The Boxing Tribune World Rankings offer a fair and accurate look at each of boxing's seventeen weight classes. Using a unique formulaic criteria based on activity and level of opposition within a fighter's own division, The Boxing Tribune stands firmly behind it's world rankings and hopes that others will use them as a standard of fairness in the … [Read more...]