Bon jour amis et la famille, друзья и семья and welcome to another brain-rattling, babushka appreciating episode of the most wildly popular weekly boxing column amongst the indigenous peoples of Siberia. This week we’re converting our Canadian Dollars to Russian Rubles, so grab a bowl of caribou stew and pop open a bottle of Putinka vodka, we are danger close. With that being … [Read more...]
Montoya, Interbox, and The Twisting Ties That Bind; Magno’s Monday Rant
In late May an anonymous source sent me a recorded phone conversation of Max Boxing writer Gabriel Montoya crowing about his status as a secret PEDs testing consultant for the Jean Pascal-Lucian Bute bout in Canada and other materials related to his relationship with certain individuals in the PED testing arena. Obviously, a journalist serving as secret consultant for a … [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...]
Redemption and Validation: Chad Dawson vs. Adonis Stevenson
By Tim Harrison Saturday night at 10 PM ET/7 PM PT on HBO Boxing After Dark, “Bad’ Chad Dawson (31-2, 17 KOs) puts his WBC light heavyweight title on the line against hard-hitting Adonis “Superman” Stevenson (20-1, 17 KOs) in front of what should be a packed house at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In the televised co-feature, undefeated Yuriorkis Gamboa makes his … [Read more...]
Notes from the Underground; Magno’s Monday Rant
First, I must legally acknowledge the fact that I “stole” the title of this week’s column from 19th Century Russian writer, Fyodor Dostoevsky. When I don’t mention this, some fake mean blogger has a Twitter tizzy and says really snarky things about me. Anyway, this week’s Rant will revisit the Notes from the Underground concept, dedicated to short, bite-sized nuggets of … [Read more...]