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Five Big Fights That Were Killed By Upsets

March 23, 2017 by Danny Howard 1 Comment

Five Big Fights That Were Killed By Upsets

Usually in the business of boxing if a fight is big enough, it’ll happen no matter what it takes to get it. That means there might be dodgy decisions, questionable call outs and some promotional finagling to make sure the big one goes off without a hitch. The only thing that can stop that momentum is a devastating loss, especially in a fight that almost everybody thought was a … [Read more...]

Puerto Rico’s Rich Boxing Lineage: Part Two

September 9, 2015 by Ted Sares 9 Comments

Puerto Rico’s Rich Boxing Lineage: Part Two

There are so many to list that it’s precarious to try to list them all for fear of excluding some. But here in Part Two are some others who have carried on the rich tradition of boxing in Puerto Rico. Juan Laporte Arguably, Juan Laporte may have fought the toughest opposition of any boxer in history and arguably, he may have the best chin of any boxer. Indeed, he went up … [Read more...]

Boxing Power Rankings Jr.: The Southpaw

December 6, 2012 by Fox Doucette Leave a Comment

Boxing Power Rankings Jr.: The Southpaw

by Fox Doucette Last week, Salvador Sanchez II made one of the weakest cases for talent being hereditary, as he dropped his record to 30-5 (18 KOs) at the hands of undefeated Jayson Velez, who got a name opponent in name only onto his record himself. The third-round KO of the guy with the Juan Epstein hairdo and the Dirk Diggler boxing trunks reminded absolutely nobody of … [Read more...]

The Sh-t List: The Greatest Middleweights That Were Lightweights

April 24, 2012 by Paul Magno Leave a Comment

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...]

Hector Camacho, Ultimate Badass: The Southpaw

April 5, 2012 by Fox Doucette Leave a Comment

Hector Camacho, Ultimate Badass: The Southpaw

by Fox Doucette (note: This is the first in what I hope will become a series of me playing around with other writers' writing styles like a literary Weird Al Yankovic. I begin with a riff on Ben Thompson, whose site BadassOfTheWeek.com is a Friday favorite of mine that gets me in the right mind frame to watch FNF.) Boxers are, by definition, a pretty badass lot. Any time your … [Read more...]

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