Hola family and welcome home to a thyme, rosemary and laurel leaf scented edition of Omaha's 145th most popular bite-sized weekly pugilistic paper, The Sunday Brunch - We combine like the boxing column equivalent of the real diecast Voltron, not those fake plastic re-release ones that came out years later, I'm talking a serious choking hazard, people...This week we're … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune Year-End Awards: 2013
There were a lot of bright, glowing moments in 2013 for long-suffering hardcore boxing fans. A return to stacked (or semi-stacked) undercards saw some solid PPV co-features as well as some genuinely entertaining triple and quadruple-headers on HBO/Showtime. The cold war between Top Rank-Golden Boy and HBO-Showtime, instead of "ruining" the sport, actually saw all parties … [Read more...]
Gonzalez Shocks Mares (And World) With KO 1 Victory, Santa Cruz Steamrolls Terrazas in Three
StubHub Center, Carson, California-- Saturday was to be the affirmation of Abner Mares' (26-1-1, 14 KOs) status as a true world class presence and shining star in the Golden Boy stable, making the first defense of his WBC featherweight belt, but veteran Jhonny Gonzalez (55-8, 47 KOs) came along and ruined everything with a picture-perfect left hand in the very first … [Read more...]
Frankie Espinoza On Magdaleno Signing, Oscar Valdez & More
Earlier this week, TheBoxingTribune.com reached out to Frankie Espinoza, the younger Espinoza that runs Espinoza Boxing with his father, Frank, Sr. - a managerial company known for it’s deep roots in the sport. Espinoza Boxing manages the careers of fighters like Abner Mares, Daniel Ponce De Leon, Oscar Valdez, Diego Magdaleno, Carlos Molina, etc. We covered topics ranging … [Read more...]
Mayweather Thoroughly Defeats “Man on a Mission” Guerrero: Full May Day PPV Results.
It wasn't a dazzling performance from Floyd Mayweather (44-0, 26 KOs), but it was a masterful one as the five-division world champ now goes 21-0 in world title fights with a unanimous decision victory over Robert Guerrero (31-2-1, 18 KOs) Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. thoroughly In a surprisingly blue collar performance, Mayweather just did enough to win … [Read more...]