"It may seem as though Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was born a made man, but back in 2008, when fans in Hermosillo, Sonora pelted the ring with garbage and cups of beer in protest of his controversial split decision win over Minnesota’s Matt Vanda, he certainly didn’t seem to be living a charmed in-ring life. Jr. sat in his corner, dejected and deflated, protected from the debris … [Read more...]
Saul Alvarez vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.: The Boxing Tribune Preview
The last time Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. fought on the same day, at the same time, over 70% of the Mexican TV viewing public tuned in to boxing. This time, with Mexico's two biggest stars matched directly against one another, that number could climb up to 75 or 80%, maybe even higher. To say that Canelo-Chavez has captured the hearts and minds of … [Read more...]
Is boxing handling PEDs testing all wrong? An expert’s take
[Editor's Note: This was originally published on the Yahoo! Boxing page in 2013, before the issue of real PEDs testing had been bastardized for the sake of showy appeasement (i.e. :"voluntary" testing) and before said appeasement had been facilitated by media whores looking for cash-outs via a "cause." Unfortunately, Yahoo, in their infinite wisdom, decided to erase all … [Read more...]
No Country for Old Men: Part Five
"He's like a little girl, I'm going to teach her how to really hit…"I'm a man going up against a woman. But this Mexican, I'm going to hit him very hard." Ricardo Mayorga Say it’s not so, but rumors abound that former WBC/WBA world welterweight champion and 43-year-old Ricardo Mayorga (32-9-1) is coming back. The carefree Mayorga stopped hapless Mexican Juadiel Zepeda in the … [Read more...]
For Golovkin-Jacobs, absurd is the word
The HBO hype machine did to Daniel Jacobs on Saturday night what cancer couldn’t do. Okay, that may be going too far…However, Jacobs did fight the fight of his life, won that fight, but left Madison Square Garden with a loss—losing eight of twelve rounds on two judges’ scorecards! How absurd is it to realize that we’re finally learning how the consensus middleweight … [Read more...]