This will likely be the least popular and least shared Monday Rant in a long while because it has to do with boxing fans and the double standard always at play when it comes to the sport. When the boxing media acts as lap dogs and publicists, it's understandable how fiction can be indistinguishable from fact and how reality, somehow, becomes up for debate. I've always said … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune Year-End Awards: 2012
In a lot of ways, 2012 was the best of times and the worst of times for fight fans. Competition for the eyeballs of fight fans created at least the hint of an effort to deliver good fights to the public and, although Golden Boy and Top Rank still insist on playing promotional turf war, both companies did a decent job of making some of the best fights within their power to make. … [Read more...]
Saturday’s Fight Recap: Scribblings from the Tweety notebook.
What to do when the Editor in Chief is stuck without access to his website during an entire day of fight action? Grab a notepad and start scribbling observations the old fashioned way: Abner Mares (25-0-1, 13 KOs) UD 12 Anselmo Moreno (33-2-1, 12 KOs) Mares' star keeps rising. The 26-year-old fought the right type of fight against a guy like Moreno. He pushed forward and … [Read more...]
Nathan Cleverly takes on Shawn Hawk on Saturday’s Mares-Moreno undercard
by Ben Randall Saturday night, in the light heavyweight division, WBO champion, Nathan Cleverly defends against Shawn Hawk on the Golden Boy Promotions Mares v Moreno bill at the Staples Centre, Los Angeles. Its been a farcical journey for the Welshman, who only found out his opponent at the beginning of this week after a frantic search for worthy … [Read more...]
Malaise at Light Heavyweight
The light heavyweight division is no longer the weight class that brought us talents such as Roy Jones Jr. and Michael Spinks or hardcore legends like Archie Moore and Bob Foster. Over the years, the 175 lb. class has morphed into some sort of odd boxing limbo, full of photo ops and media-directed tough talk about bouts that nobody really has any intention of making. Nothing … [Read more...]