by Tim Harrison 2013 was supposed to be the year Brandon Rios got the biggest payday of his career. It should have been the year his name and face were plastered all over banners and marquees alongside Manny Pacquiao. The brash, fast talking brawler from Lubbock, Texas with a good amount of crowd appeal could have been moved along to the next level this year. Sources all … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2013
Brandon Rios Vs. Mike Alvarado II Preview
Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios (31-0, 23 KO’s) Vs. “Mile High” Mike Alvarado (33-1, 23 KO’s) II On October 13th of last year, Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado engaged in an absolute war at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA that took off right where the 12th round of Rafael Marquez and Israel Vazquez’ epic third fight ended. This coming Saturday(March 30th), live from the Mandalay Bay … [Read more...]
Robert Guerrero Arrested At JFK Airport For Gun Possession
Former Featherweight and Super Featherweight Champion Robert Guerrero was arrested Thursday morning at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York for possessing a semi-automatic .40-caliber handgun with no permit. Guerrero told a Delta Airlines ticketing employee that he was carrying the weapon but that it was in a safety box and was accompanied by three empty clips. … [Read more...]
Broken News: Worst of the BWAA Awards and a Divine hand in boxing
by Tim Harrison Welcome back to another edition of Broken News: The one column dedicated to rounding up the news that doesn’t make the cut of the Tribune’s newly-hired News Editor Ruben Diaz, and seeing what passes the smell test and what smells like it dropped from the hind quarters of a bull. This week’s edition takes a look at a couple of the worst awards handed out by … [Read more...]
Gennady Golovkin Aims for Another X-rated Performance to Prove His Worth
There was a time, back in the good old days, when simply winning a world championship would serve to prove a boxer’s worth. This was back in the days when there was generally only one ‘world’ champion per division and boxers often had to be something special just to secure a title shot in the first place. Today it is sadly very different, with a multitude of so called ‘World … [Read more...]