Welcome back to an encore for What If's Excellent Heavyweight Adventure, where sometimes your columnist just wants to cut loose a little and have some fun. Everything you see here that I lifted from somewhere else is used for parody purposes only: Previously, on What If: Joe Louis won the Fight of the Ages against Ezzard Charles, unloading a miracle punch at the end of the … [Read more...]
No Access, No Favors, No Problem: Mayweather vs. Cotto on the Big Screen
Unlike other boxing scribes in the business, we at The Boxing Tribune pride ourselves on being free from promoter, network, and manager influence. And while our elbow-rubbing competition will give their readers the occasional “day in the life” of the bought-and-sold type; lavish trips to a foreign island to hobnob with matchmakers, promoters, network-types, and the fighters … [Read more...]
Romney Tabs Mexican Middleweight for VP: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette (This continues my series of writing columns in other writers' styles. With rumors floating around that Mitt Romney will choose Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his running mate, I thought it's high time for an article done in the political-satire style of The Onion.) Trying to add some punch to his challenge to unseat President Barack Obama this November, … [Read more...]
The Sh-t List: The Greatest Middleweights That Were Lightweights
By Alphonso Costello A couple of weeks ago I answered an ad to fill the boxing historian vacancy left by the dearly departed Bert Sugar when The Sh-t List Makers Association of America commissioned a list for the 10 greatest middleweights who were lightweights. Since I have taken to smoking cigars and wearing fedoras, I am now The Boxing Tribune’s self-proclaimed … [Read more...]