Welcome to another edition of What If, the boxing column that always goes the full championship distance: When Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini killed Duk Koo Kim in a fourteen-round televised execution on November 13, 1982, the major boxing sanctioning bodies used that as the catalyst to reduce championship fights from 15 rounds to 12. The WBC acted immediately; their first … [Read more...]
The Sunday Brunch: Special Mailbag Edition
Bienvenidos amigos y familia to Panama City’s numero uno boxing themed, loosely food-centric weekend column, The Sunday Brunch. We stay crunchy, even in milk! For this special edition Sunday Brunch we’ve sorted through thousands of emails, tossing aside the long-winded, the obvious, the questioning and the pragmatic. What we were left with are all completely legitimate emails, … [Read more...]
Boxing’s Sunday Brunch: Predictions Edition
Hello team and welcome to a zesty sour cream and onion flavored edition of your Sunday Brunch. Today we’ll be talking predictions, outcomes and strategy. We’re going to be taking a look at some major upcoming events, so grab your buttermilk ranch dipping sauce and head out to the garden to pluck some fresh baby carrots; we are the brown M&M in your otherwise colorful bag of … [Read more...]
The Fistic Flashback: Frankie “The Surgeon” Randall Shocks the World, 1994
It’s considered by many to be one of the greatest upsets in boxing history. The night a 15-1 underdog met a seemingly invincible and undefeated champion and shocked the boxing world. Frankie “The Surgeon” Randall and Julio Cesar Chavez met on January 29th, 1994 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada to contest for Chavez’s WBC light welterweight championship. Chavez at the … [Read more...]
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.’s Daddy Dearest Interview; Magno’s Monday Rant
Looking bloated and slightly disheveled with a troubling hand-to-brow nervous tick, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. appeared on the Spanish language Nación ESPN show to clear the air about testing positive for marijuana and the reasons surrounding his unanimous decision loss to Sergio Martinez on September 15th. Advertised as a tell-all, coming clean confession, viewers, instead, … [Read more...]