by Fox Doucette Bernard Hopkins is the ultimate example of how taking the first professional loss can set a fighter free from the pressure that often accompanies a gaudy undefeated record. After all, if you lose your first pro fight, you never have that pressure in the first place---you can regroup, come back, and go on to become a legend. But what if B-Hop never fought … [Read more...]
Russell, Lomachenko And Mayweather-Pacquaio News: The Sunday Brunch
Hola familia y amigos, welcome to another star-spangled, shit kickin' edition of Central Florida's highest rated, most money spinning proper pugilistic paper, The Sunday Brunch - We are predicting that Shannon "The Cannon" Briggs' obscenely muscular physique will betray him in five years time and he will begin to look like a melted fudgesicle a la Hulk Hogan. This week we're … [Read more...]
The Wild, Wild World of Zeferino Jackson; Magno’s Monday Rant
The biggest boxing story of the last century was overlooked in 2010 when intrepid writer Zeferino Jackson revealed the connection between former world champ Israel Vazquez, NFL quarterback Michael Vick, and a mystical Aztec bestiality sex farm in Mexico that gave athletes the ultimate performance enhancer. "If you want to be fast and strong, you must dominate the horse," … [Read more...]
2015 and Boxing’s Road to Redemption; Magno’s Monday Rant
I take a lot of swipes at the bad guys of the sport in the Monday Rant and, really, that's pretty much the reason the Rant exists at all. Consider it a change of pace from some of the usual opinion columns out there where grown men who know better pretend to be covering a sport like any other, where X's and O's always determine the winner and an entire subculture of hustlers … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune Year-End Awards: 2014 (Part Two)
Continuing from Monday's Part One, here's the second and final installment of The Boxing Tribune's look at 2014's Best, Worst, and Strangest in Boxing: Fighter of the Year: Terence Crawford There has been some late resistance in giving the quiet kid from Omaha the honor he deserves, mostly because of Sergey Kovalev's big win over Bernard Hopkins registering much higher … [Read more...]