Saturday night, undefeated Adrien “The Problem” Broner (27-0, 22 KOs) puts his undefeated record and WBA welterweight world title on the line against Argentine slugger Marcos Maidana (34-3, 31 KOs) at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. With a quality main event that promises to be a major test for both fighters, the under card features three world title match ups, two U.S. … [Read more...]
Embracing Boxing’s Chaos; Magno’s Monday Rant
“In chaos, there is fertility.” ― Anaïs Nin Whenever someone talks about reforming or cleaning up boxing, there's always one crucial factor left out of the discussion. It's the key to all that's horrible in the sport as well as being at the heart of what makes it great. It's the reason secret blogging societies and their weekly voodoo rankings rituals are utterly meaningless … [Read more...]
The Three Faces of Adonis Stevenson TKO 1 Chad Dawson; Magno’s Monday Rant
As they often say in a dispute-- there's one side, the other side, and, somewhere in the middle, the truth. In the case of Adonis Stevenson's first round blow-out of Chad Dawson Saturday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, nobody is denying the outcome. Nobody is denying the thudding overhand left that dropped Dawson or the subsequent, dopey "who ate my Cheerios" … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune Year-End Awards: 2012
In a lot of ways, 2012 was the best of times and the worst of times for fight fans. Competition for the eyeballs of fight fans created at least the hint of an effort to deliver good fights to the public and, although Golden Boy and Top Rank still insist on playing promotional turf war, both companies did a decent job of making some of the best fights within their power to make. … [Read more...]
Malaise at Light Heavyweight
The light heavyweight division is no longer the weight class that brought us talents such as Roy Jones Jr. and Michael Spinks or hardcore legends like Archie Moore and Bob Foster. Over the years, the 175 lb. class has morphed into some sort of odd boxing limbo, full of photo ops and media-directed tough talk about bouts that nobody really has any intention of making. Nothing … [Read more...]