by Ted Sares "Where else is there to go? I’ve gotten myself into the best shape in a long time. If I don’t get it done now, I’m never going to get it done." —Antwun Echols "It’s just a fact I enjoy fighting and since the age of eight it has been a part of me. I don’t know anything else" —Danny Williams My favorite type of fight is when the frontrunner is beating his … [Read more...]
Love for Sale; Magno’s Monday Rant
Welcome to another Monday Rant on The Boxing Tribune, boxing's worst practitioner of social media marketing... This week, swipes were taken at two of boxing's biggest media voices and, along the way, we learned a few things about ego, greed, and the old boy's code. As reported by Tim Starks of The Queensberry Rules, Max Boxing's Steve Kim proudly boasted of the "wonderful" … [Read more...]
The Boxing Media’s Selective Outrage over Pacquiao-Mosley
by Paul Magno After two years of aggressive denial and of helping promote the most cynical matchmaking of an elite-level fighter in recent memory, the mainstream boxing media has finally come out loud and aggressive in their condemnation of Shane Mosley as Manny Pacquiao's next opponent on May 7th in Las Vegas. But, lest we forget, these very same "experts" actually … [Read more...]
The Movement to Discredit Manny Pacquiao
by Paul Magno knock knock knock It's 3 am and the cold breeze is blowing in from under the door and around the cracks in the window frame. I get up from a sheet-less bed and open the door. "We have to go," says the shadowy figure at the door. "No time to pack. Our position has been compromised." I step into my shoes, grab the duffel bag of wrinkled clothes kept next to … [Read more...]