Breidis Prescott (26-5, 20 KO’s) vs. Edinson Garcia (23-16-, 12 KO’s) -Colombia The hard hitting Prescott comes in off a lopsided 10 round loss to Terence Crawford in March, his only fight of the year after scoring two victories in 2012. He’s beaten some solid opposition along the way, but when presented with big opportunities, has lost just as much as he’s won. Garcia’s … [Read more...]
Adonis Stevenson vs. Tavoris Cloud: The Boxing Tribune Preview
by Tim Harrison This Saturday, September 28, Adonis Stevenson (21-1, 18 KOs) makes the first defense of the WBC light heavyweight title he violently snatched from the once-formidable clutches of Chad Dawson in June. Hard-hitting former IBF light heavyweight titlist Tavoris Cloud (24-1, 19 KOs) makes the trek north of the border to challenge Stevenson in his adopted home; the … [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...]
Bute Out Against Pascal, Suffers Hand Injury
Earlier this week, former super middleweight champion, Lucian Bute(31-1, 24 KO’s), withdrew from his anticipated showdown against Jean Pascal(27-2-1, 16 KO’s), which was scheduled to take place on the 25th of this month at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada, and to be aired on HBO. Bute was forced to postpone the fight due to an injury he suffered in his left hand which will … [Read more...]