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 Monday Rant
Let's just cut to the chase: Rant #1: Did you see the drama and intrigue produced by the Brandon Rios-Anthony Peterson bout on Saturday night? You could sense the tension as Rios pushed forward and Peterson ditched his game plan to fire back. And how about the raw emotion in Rios as he was declared the winner? Forget the low blows and why Peterson rifled them off, this is … [Read more...]
The Late Stoppage : A Unique Look at the Day’s Fights
A pet peeve of mine is smaller sites pretending that they are one of the big guys. Let's face it, when looking for re-caps of the day's fights, most everyone is going to instinctively look up the big sites. As a small, but growing site, The Boxing Tribune has long been look for something that flips the script a bit and adds something to the scene rather than just re-tilling … [Read more...]
The Weekly Weigh-In
Now, last week I may have stated that Ricky Burns had no chance against Roman Martinez. Burns fought the fight of his life, out-boxing and out-manning Martinez at every turn in what is the leading Fight of the Year candidate. Congratulations Ricky, now do us all a favour and continue to fight world class fighters and not the likes of a shot Alex Arthur or Paul Appleby to keep … [Read more...]
Paul Magno’s Daily Grind: Thursday, July 8th
...The Grind is counting down to the weekend...please come fast... * WBA Featherweight champ, Yuriorkis Gamboa, and WBC Featherweight champ, Elio Rojas, have agreed to terms for a September 11th title unification bout on HBO. Gamboa was originally scheduled to face IBF 126 lb. champ, Orlando Salido, but the fight had to be scrapped due to an unhealed cut suffered by Salido … [Read more...]