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Three Inconvenient Truths about Mayweather-Alvarez

May 31, 2013 by Tim Harrison Leave a Comment

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

May 4, 2012 by Paul Magno 3 Comments

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

October 31, 2011 by Paul Magno 4 Comments

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

March 22, 2011 by Paul Magno Leave a Comment

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...]

Paul Magno’s Monday Rant

December 6, 2010 by Paul Magno Leave a Comment

Paul Magno’s Monday Rant

Another week begins and what better way to kick it off than with a nice, warm rant from my fortified cement bunker in the hills of Central Mexico... Rant #1: Top Rank's Latin Fury card Saturday was actually a pretty entertaining card-- Too bad only a small handful of boxing fans got to see it. At 50 bucks a pop and 3 weeks before Christmas, this was a tough sell even to the … [Read more...]

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