Last week, between all my writing gigs and on a relatively slow news week, I wrote to a number of fight fans totaling well over six-figures, yet somehow, someway, I am a virtual unknown among my boxing writing peers-- or, at least, that's what they say when my name is brought up and someone is bitching about the nerve I have to question another media member. "Who is that … [Read more...]
Q & A With PEDs, Corruption Expert: Voluntary Testing is Useless, Boxing Reform Non-Existent
The Boxing Tribune Editor in Chief, Paul Magno, is also a Featured Writer for the Yahoo! Contributor Network. Read his article, “‘Expert: Boxing Has Made No Steps to Rid Itself of PEDs Use, Voluntary Testing Virtually Useless” click HERE. … [Read more...]
The Blue Bird of Misery Rains on Lucas Matthysse’s Parade; Magno’s Monday Rant
I don't often agree with Saudi ultra-orthodox clerics, but Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh may be right, Twitter just may damn a user's soul in "this world and his afterlife." I know, The Boxing Tribune has a Twitter account. Apparently, such things are necessary in this media age. Marketing. Synergy. Branding. SEO. Blah, Blah, Blah. Most of the time, our Twitter thingy is … [Read more...]
So…How’s that PEDs War going? Magno’s Monday Rant
One full year after the boxing media suddenly started caring about performance enhancing drugs, chaos still reigns supreme in the sport. All we have to show for month after month of hot air and eye-catching headlines is a couple of slaps on the wrist. Just this past week, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) finally got around to sanctioning Erik Morales for twice … [Read more...]
Broken News: Curtis Woodhouse, Klitschko-Povetkin, and Rumor-mongering media whores
by Tim Harrison Welcome back to another edition of Broken News, the one column dedicated to gathering up some of the bigger news stories of the week and giving them to you all in one big dose, albeit with my own cynical take on them. So without further ado, here is this week’s news. Some of it might be new. Some of it might be old. But all of it is broken. Curtis … [Read more...]