Let's not beat around the bush here. If you are up in arms about Ring Magazine moving Andre Ward to the top of their pound-for-pound list after Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez's recent loss to Srisaket Sort Rungvisai, you are probably an idiot. Really, really...An idiot on so many levels. First (and perhaps foremost), who the hell cares about Ring Magazine? So, the nerds … [Read more...]
Three Inconvenient Truths about Mayweather-Alvarez
by Tim Harrison Floyd Mayweather Jr. recently made it known that he’d be facing Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on the weekend of Mexican Independence Day – Saturday, September 14. The best welterweight, also the best pound-for-pound, is taking on the best junior middleweight in a (gasp) 152-pound catchweight fight (more on that later) with the WBA “super” junior middleweight, WBA … [Read more...]
Ring Magazine’s pretend rankings upgrade ‘championship’ policy
There was a time when the Ring Magazine Rankings were the rankings by which boxing fans and the mainstream media followed championship movement in the sport. The sanctioning bodies-- The WBA and upstart, WBC-- were relatively minor background players. Then, Ring Magazine began selling placement in their rankings to Don King in the events leading to the infamous Ring Magazine … [Read more...]
Ring Magazine: Bible of Boxing or Book of the Dead? Magno’s Monday Rant
For those not familiar with the Monday Rant or me, personally, you should know that I'm not one of those boxing trivia nerds who waxes poetic about old boxing scribes or one of those guys who thinks that, because they once read an article in an old magazine about some booze-addled Irish boxer in the 30's, they actually know something about the sport. I get no tingling feeling … [Read more...]
Revisiting The Ring Magazine Scandal
Off in an apartment in Queens, New York, 27-year old underground boxing writer, Malcolm "Flash" Gordon, realized he was on to something bigger than big. Known as a "sewer mongrel" and "beatnik pothead with body odor to boot" by those boxing scoundrels he outed in his writings, Gordon was a fixture on the New York City boxing circuit. Standing out in front of Madison … [Read more...]