This week's Rant will be a bit different. I'm writing this preface in anticipation of receiving email responses for questions I sent to the three founders of the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB) on Thursday. For those who don't yet know, The TBRB is a boxing rankings board made up of various bloggers and writers drawn together because of Ring Magazine's change in … [Read more...]
Top 5 Must Have Fights + Random Insights & Musings:This is the Sunday Brunch
Hey team and welcome to a basil, garlic and oregano flavored “Top Five” edition of Boxing’s Sunday Brunch – The very best Top Five list you will ever read all day. We’ll be going from super bantamweight all the way up to light heavyweight, I’ll tell you what I’ve noticed this week and we'll have a bonus gem of a recipe if you’re an Italian food lover. We are the reason why you … [Read more...]
Nonito Donaire, Vic Darchinyan, & Grassroots Boxing:This is the Midweek Meal-Ticket
Hello team and welcome to another bone-crunching episode of Boxing’s Midweek Meal-Ticket; the weekly piece that’s fast becoming the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s number one boxing column. This week is special because along with our regular pugilistic news, opinions and rumor coverage, we’re going to be taking a look at a boxing event that took place in Orlando, Florida and … [Read more...]
Vic Darchinyan Signs Promotional Pact With Espinoza Boxing
On Wednesday, March 27th it was announced that former world champion Vic Darchinyan had signed a managerial pact with Espinoza Boxing. Spearheaded by it’s founder, Frank Espinoza, the managerial company is most known for bringing Israel “Magnifico” Vazquez from the ground up and seasoning him into a highly regarded and visible fighter on networks such as Showtime and HBO. To … [Read more...]
Meet the New Boss- Same As The Old Boss; Magno’s Monday Rant
I thought that it had been established long ago that boxing can't be trusted to govern itself and that boxing people, even the most pious of soul-searching, trivia-knowing boxing scribes, shouldn't be trusted with any more power than they currently have. Apparently, I was wrong. Apparently, the folly of a rankings system based solely on opinion had nothing to do with the … [Read more...]