Welcome to the Monday Rant, the only boxing column not afraid to burn bridges and desecrate free media lunches. This is how boxing works: Old, seedy men (sanctioning bodies, promoters, managers) make fights and hatch plans amongst themselves...They funnel those plans down to the major media sources that they just happen to subsidize with advertising money and … [Read more...]
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...]