by Fox Doucette It's a new year, and with the new year comes resolution time. This time, the resolutions will be made at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. For Bryan Vera (23-8, 14 KOs) and Hammerin' Hank Lundy (25-4-1, 12 KOs), that means getting off the train to Palookaville and back on the waterfront looking out at the endless sea … [Read more...]
The Sunday Brunch: Special Mailbag Edition
Bienvenidos amigos y familia to Panama City’s numero uno boxing themed, loosely food-centric weekend column, The Sunday Brunch. We stay crunchy, even in milk! For this special edition Sunday Brunch we’ve sorted through thousands of emails, tossing aside the long-winded, the obvious, the questioning and the pragmatic. What we were left with are all completely legitimate emails, … [Read more...]
Chavez Jr: Learning To Play The Game; Magno’s Monday Rant
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., El Hijo de la Leyenda, has been fighting to "shut the mouths of the critics" almost from the moment he made his pro debut. Now, as an eleven-year professional, it looks as though he may finally be catching on to the game of boxing stardom. He doesn't have to shut anyone's mouth. As a matter of fact, let them keep talking. "Maybe people don't like … [Read more...]
Chavez-Vera rematch set for March 1 in San Antonio
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (47-1-1, 32 KOs) and Brian Vera (23-7, 14 KOs) are set for a rematch of their controversial first meeting last September. The rematch is set to take place on March 1 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas at the super middleweight limit of 168 pounds, according to Bob Arum, who spoke to ESPN’s Dan Rafael. Chavez, who failed to make the 168-pound weight … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune Year-End Awards: 2013
There were a lot of bright, glowing moments in 2013 for long-suffering hardcore boxing fans. A return to stacked (or semi-stacked) undercards saw some solid PPV co-features as well as some genuinely entertaining triple and quadruple-headers on HBO/Showtime. The cold war between Top Rank-Golden Boy and HBO-Showtime, instead of "ruining" the sport, actually saw all parties … [Read more...]