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Joan Guzman Tests Positive for Banned Substance

January 16, 2011 by Paul Magno Leave a Comment

Joan Guzman Tests Positive for Banned Substance

According to The Las Vegas Review Journal, former jr. featherweight and super featherweight champ, Joan Guzman, tested positive for Furosemide, a banned substance by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC), for his December 11th bout with Jason Davis. Furosemide is a diuretic, but also used as a masking agent for other drugs. Most recently, high-profile fighters such as … [Read more...]

Nate Campbell: A Story of Beating Odds and Finding Peace

November 30, 2010 by Paul Magno 7 Comments

Nate Campbell: A Story of Beating Odds and Finding Peace

by Paul Magno Nate Campbell never even set foot in a real boxing gym until he was 24 years old; He made his pro debut about four years later, a month shy of his 28th birthday. At an age where most smaller fighters are already on a downward slope when it comes to career trajectory and physical development, Campbell was taking his first lumps as an unknown, unrepresented … [Read more...]

The Boxing Tribune’s World Rankings: A Look at the Lightweights

September 23, 2010 by Paul Magno Leave a Comment

The Boxing Tribune’s World Rankings: A Look at the Lightweights

As detailed earlier, The Boxing Tribune World Rankings offer a fair and accurate look at each of boxing's seventeen weight classes. Using a unique formulaic criteria based on activity and level of opposition within a fighter's own division, The Boxing Tribune stands firmly behind it's world rankings and hopes that others will use them as a standard of fairness in the … [Read more...]

Paul Magno’s Daily Grind: Thursday, June 10th

June 10, 2010 by Paul Magno Leave a Comment

Paul Magno’s Daily Grind: Thursday, June 10th

Back to the grind: * Lightweight,  Ali Funeka, was fined and suspended by the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Wednesday for testing positive for a banned diuretic after his March bout with Joan Guzman. Funeka was fined $35,000, suspended for nine months and forced to pay back the $15,625 for making weight after Guzman couldn't. * Heavyweight action returns to Los … [Read more...]

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