by Paul Magno Nate Campbell never even set foot in a real boxing gym until he was 24 years old; He made his pro debut about four years later, a month shy of his 28th birthday. At an age where most smaller fighters are already on a downward slope when it comes to career trajectory and physical development, Campbell was taking his first lumps as an unknown, unrepresented … [Read more...]
Marquez vs. Katsidis: A Gift to Hardcore Fight Fans
by Chris Milton Sometimes boxing can be the most irritating sport on earth. Fighters ducking each other. Promoters refusing to work with each other. TV networks rejecting the fights hardcore fans want to see because the fighters don’t have enough star quality. Instead, they force feed us tripe and tell us to enjoy it. They tell us this is who the stars of boxing are, … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune’s World Rankings: A Look at the Lightweights
As detailed earlier, The Boxing Tribune World Rankings offer a fair and accurate look at each of boxing's seventeen weight classes. Using a unique formulaic criteria based on activity and level of opposition within a fighter's own division, The Boxing Tribune stands firmly behind it's world rankings and hopes that others will use them as a standard of fairness in the … [Read more...]
Paul Magno’s Monday Rant
...Yeah...Rant Time.. Rant #1 I guess it doesn't matter who is plugged into the HBO Boxing broadcast slot, we're always going to get a pair or trio of guys in suits looking to tell us a story rather than call a prize fight. Max Kellerman and Bob Papa stepped right into the Lampley/Merchant roles of boxing narration on Saturday night's Devon Alexander-Andriy Kotelnik … [Read more...]
Marquez Plays Professor to Student, Diaz; Pirog Shocks the World
Las Vegas, Nevada-- Juan Manuel Marquez (51-5-1, 37KOs) re-established himself as a pound for pound player by teaching Juan Diaz (35-4, 17KOs) a few things about tactical boxing in the main event of their pay-per-view rematch Saturday night. Hardly resembling their back and forth, Fight of the Year war from 2009, this bout featured a more subdued Diaz who was never really … [Read more...]