by Chris Milton On Friday, in his native Argentina, the new “Malignaggi” Cesar Cuenca (37-0) continues his snail pace up the 140lb rankings against Cesar Telechea (8-3-1). With fights like this its not hard to see why Cuenca has 37 wins yet is nowhere near world level. We also see a super featherweight alphabet title fight in South Africa between Mzonke Fana and Cassius … [Read more...]
Why No Hype?
by Chris Milton This weekend, boxing kicks off a series of exciting fights with the wonderful HBO PPV card this Saturday night. A card so stacked with great fights that we at the Tribune keep having to check the date to make sure we haven't gone back in time to the Don King PPV shows of the nineties. Looking at the main event Marquez v Diaz 2, everyone seems to be coming … [Read more...]
Midweek Hangover – Ten Fights the Fans Want to See
by Chris Milton Over the past week or so we have run a thread on our forum www.thebtbc.com asking you what fights you want to see to close the year out. Over 30 different fights were chosen and it goes to show the strength of boxing at the moment with the fact only three fights were in everyone’s list. Enough chit chat onto the fights. 10. Shane Mosley v Andre … [Read more...]
A Tribute to Insanity: Arturo Gatti
by Chris Milton 40-9 (31 KOs), A record that doesn’t tell the whole story. Arturo Gatti is a fighter that made records irrelevant. A two-time double weight World Champion also made belts irrelevant. In fact when he fought, everything was irrelevant. A year ago today Thunder was taken from us in circumstances that are as confusing today as they were a year ago. “Gatti … [Read more...]
Weekend Hangover – I Caved in to the UFC
by Chris Milton I eventually decided to watch the UFC main event. Two men, 260lbs of solid, well lets call it excess weight because frankly neither looked ripped, in fact they looked prime for a few beers not fighting. The fight started well, there was no hugging, no man on man action just two guys throwing bombs. Then Lesnar goes down and for the next 3 minuets Shane … [Read more...]