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No Country for Old Men: Part Five

April 5, 2017 by Paul Magno 12 Comments

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

March 20, 2017 by Paul Magno 13 Comments

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...]

…Remember that one time Gennady Golovkin fought that guy who had a chance of beating him?

March 15, 2017 by Paul Magno 1 Comment

…Remember that one time Gennady Golovkin fought that guy who had a chance of beating him?

In boxing, promoters lie, managers lie, networks lie, even the media lies. But the oddsmakers never lie. Whether a fight will be as competitive as its publicity claims can be determined by the odds set for the bout. Looking at what the oddsmakers have to say will tell you everything you need to know about the quality of most match-ups. This Saturday’s middleweight title … [Read more...]

Mayweather vs. McGregor and the snobbery of “real” boxing fans

March 15, 2017 by Paul Magno 2 Comments

Mayweather vs. McGregor and the snobbery of “real” boxing fans

Just the mere mention of a possible Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor bout is enough to send boxing “purists” into a downward emotional spiral. And with Floyd Mayweather’s recent announcement that he was coming out of retirement precisely for a big-money McGregor clash, the sound of mass hand-wringing and clucking of tongues is almost deafening. “Oh sweet spirit of Jack … [Read more...]

El Ciclon de Guantánamo Blew

March 13, 2017 by Paul Magno Leave a Comment

El Ciclon de Guantánamo Blew

If David Lemieux-Curtis Stevens on Saturday night was precisely the type of fight for which HBO's Boxing After Dark was designed, Yuriorkis Gamboa-Rene Alvarado was precisely the type of fight Boxing After Dark was designed to ignore. Gamboa-Alvarado was ten rounds of nothingness showcasing a multi-talented failed superstar refusing to do anything other than the bare minimum … [Read more...]

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