by Fox Doucette Repeat after me: Styles. Make. Fights. Tonight, we've put Miguel Cotto into the time machine fresh off one of his best wins, an eleven-round smackdown of Zab Judah where Cotto beat the fight out of Zab en route to that late stoppage. He faces Pipino Cuevas, who comes to us from his pasting of Harold Volbrecht in 1980, a five-round ass-whipping that saw Cuevas … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Micky Ward vs. Aaron Pryor, Arturo Gatti vs. Alexis Arguello
by Fox Doucette The two greatest junior welterweight fights of all time occurred twenty years apart. Aaron Pryor knocked out Alexis Arguello in the fourteenth round of a fifteen-round scheduled war in 1982; 20 years later, Micky Ward scored a majority decision over Arturo Gatti in the first of their three fights---Gatti would win the latter two fairly easily, but the first … [Read more...]
Silkov’s Top Ten Most Exciting Fighters of All Time
Boxing fans love a list. There is just something about boxing and lists that go together. Like cookies leading to the invent of chocolate chips or the bicycle leading to the car-- boxing stokes the flames of list makers. Whether it is a list of top contenders, Champions, or fights we’d like to see, or even fights we don’t want to see. We’ve all either written or read a boxing … [Read more...]
The Greatest Wars At Junior Welter
The Boxing Tribune Editor in Chief, Paul Magno, is also a Featured Contributor for the Yahoo! Contributor Network. Read his latest article about the greatest clashes in the 140 lb. division, “The Five Best Junior Welterweight Battles of All-Time” click HERE. … [Read more...]