Reigning IBF super middleweight champion, Lucian Bute (27-0, 22 KOs) headlines a card at Montreal's Bell Centre on March 19th. Bute will be defending his title against Ireland's Brian Magee (34-3-1, 24 KOs). This will be Bute's seventh title defense of the belt he won from Alejandro Berrio in 2007. Magee is on a 9-0-1 streak with his most noteworthy win that run being … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune Year-End Awards: 2010
2010, in a lot of ways, was a frustrating test of patience for boxing fans. With large periods of time where, literally, no significant fight action took place and with stars who have taken to just fighting once or twice a year, boxing surely seemed on the ropes. Not helping matters any was the general disgust created when the sport's two biggest draws, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd … [Read more...]
The Late Stoppage : A Unique Look at the Day’s Fights
A pet peeve of mine is smaller sites pretending that they are one of the big guys. Let's face it, when looking for re-caps of the day's fights, most everyone is going to instinctively look up the big sites. As a small, but growing site, The Boxing Tribune has long been look for something that flips the script a bit and adds something to the scene rather than just re-tilling … [Read more...]
The Weekly Weigh-In
Now, last week I may have stated that Ricky Burns had no chance against Roman Martinez. Burns fought the fight of his life, out-boxing and out-manning Martinez at every turn in what is the leading Fight of the Year candidate. Congratulations Ricky, now do us all a favour and continue to fight world class fighters and not the likes of a shot Alex Arthur or Paul Appleby to keep … [Read more...]
Paul Magno’s Daily Grind: Tuesday, July 6th
...You just can't stop the Grind... * According to Dan Rafael of ESPN and other sources, the only thing standing between a Wladimir Klitschko-David Haye bout at this point is David Haye. Klitschko has allegedly given up the contractual rematch clauses that gummed things up the first time the bout was negotiated and he also agreed to a 50-50 money split, another bone of … [Read more...]