by Fox Doucette In the words of John Riggins, “I'm bored, I'm broke...and I'm back.” Welcome back to The Southpaw, the column with a better strength-of-schedule than Deontay Wilder: When the guys at the Tribune were discussing our Year-End Awards, a special award category came up to put into perspective Mauricio Herrera's two absolute robbery losses at the hands of Danny … [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...]
Mike Dallas Jr., FNF Poster Boy?: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette Your columnist has had the pleasure of watching Mike Dallas Jr. (19-3-1, 8 KOs) fight on ESPN2 a total of four times, in which Dallas went 2-2 and by rights should've been 3-1 (Mauricio Herrera, who ought to change his ring nickname to “El Bandito” for his tendency to win robbery decisions, did not beat him fairly.) As Friday Night Fights regulars go, Dallas … [Read more...]
Cool Hand Lucas and Swifty Garcia; Magno’s Monday Rant
Last week, we talked about Gennady Golovkin and how the man with zero wins against top 10 middleweights paved his way to middleweight pre-greateness and most feared man-beast status by devouring flat-lining journeymen and undersized pretenders. A good fighter with great potential, Golovkin is very much the product of a boxing media with a burning desire to find the "next big … [Read more...]
Lucas Matthysse vs. Mike Dallas Jr.: The Boxing Tribune Preview
by Tim Harrison Showtime Championship Boxing makes its 2013 debut live from The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, January 26 at 10 PM ET/PT. Hard-hitting Lucas Martin Matthysse (32-2, 30 KOs) will take on young Mike Dallas Jr. (19-2-1, 8 KOs) with Matthysse’s Interim WBC junior welterweight title up for grabs. Matthysse comes in … [Read more...]