Hola familia, amigos y enemigos. Welcome to a cilantro, lime and guajillo chili pepper flavored edition of Central America's highest rated, most hard-hitting investigative pugilistic paper this side of the Panama Canal, The Sunday Brunch - We are to run-on sentences what Manny Pacquiao is to impromptu shoulder surgeries. This week we're touching on Canelo's rousing decapitation … [Read more...]
The Knockout
When boxing fans think of the most spectacular knockout they have ever seen, the Vonda Ward vs. Ann Wolfe fight is likely to get mentioned most often. That fight occurred on May 8, 2004 in Biloxi, Miss. At stake were the vacant IBA female light heavyweight title and the Women’s International Boxing Association World light-heavyweight title. In short, it was an important … [Read more...]
Ann Wolfe says “I’d f*** Ronda Rousey up!” Women’s Boxing – The Weekly Wrap Up
MMA champion Ronda Rousey (9-0, 1 KO, 8 SUB) has been the talk in boxing circles thanks to her recent comments about feeling she could be the one to beat boxing’s pound for pound king, Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s). Of course, Rousey was referring to a mixed martial arts contest and not a boxing match; usually the case when MMA combatants make these type of claims. The … [Read more...]
Chavez Jr. – Coddled And Protected? “Superman” Stevenson’s Super Performance: The Sunday Brunch
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to a Guajillo chili, Oaxaca cheese and Abuelita chocolate milk flavored edition of your Sunday Brunch. Boxing’s number one mid-Sunday afternoon, loosely food themed, quasi-comical pugilistic paper on the sport’s most relevant and newsworthy figures and events. We are the most educational, informative and important boxing column that you will ever … [Read more...]
Boxing’s Hunger Games: Magno’s Monday Rant
I haven't seen the movie (and won't likely see it), but that really doesn't matter for this week's Rant. Just seeing the movie posters for The Hunger Games around town as I emerged from my fortified cement bunker to visit Michoacan's capital, Morelia, was enough to spark an idea during the haze of my belated birthday partying. As fight fans, we really are saps sometimes. … [Read more...]