Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KOs) and Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) square off at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada Saturday night on pay-per-view for the WBC welterweight title, the WBA Super Duper Ultimate Turbo Edition With Extra Cheese welterweight belt, and (bonus!) the WBC/WBA 154-pound straps, a case of weight class gymnastics at least as absurd as Sugar Ray Leonard … [Read more...]
Mayhem May Suck; Magno’s Monday Rant
Mayweather-Maidana Fight Week is upon us and all the good media lemmings will take a break from posting Pacquiao-Algieri photo-ops as front page news stories in order to run photo-ops of Mayweather with sports cars and Maidana looking tough. But even to the most click-conscious editor and SEO-juicing blogger, it has to be getting harder and harder to drum up interest for … [Read more...]
The Fall of The Money Team?
by Tim Harrison “Hard work! Dedication!” The popular mantra echoes through the Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas, Nevada, while Showtime’s – and previously HBO’s – cameras record Floyd “Money” Mayweather’s training camps. It fills Mayweather’s social media feeds, and has become a major part of his worldwide brand. The members of his “Money Team” echo the sentiment. The … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune Year-End Awards: 2013
There were a lot of bright, glowing moments in 2013 for long-suffering hardcore boxing fans. A return to stacked (or semi-stacked) undercards saw some solid PPV co-features as well as some genuinely entertaining triple and quadruple-headers on HBO/Showtime. The cold war between Top Rank-Golden Boy and HBO-Showtime, instead of "ruining" the sport, actually saw all parties … [Read more...]
Four Up, Four Down: The ShoBox Recap
Tonight’s ShoBox quadruple header at the Little Creek Casino Resort in Shelton, Washington didn’t last anywhere near the scheduled four hour scheduled run time, as all four bouts ended inside the distance. In the night’s main event, J’Leon Love (16-0, 9 KO’s) out boxed Lajuan Simon (23-5-2, 12 KO’s) over five rounds before closing the deal in the sixth. Love staggered Simon, … [Read more...]