by Tim Harrison 2012 Fighter of the Year Nonito “Filipino Flash” Donaire (31-1, 20 KOs) looks to unify his WBO junior featherweight title against WBA titlist Guillermo “El Chacal” Rigondeaux (11-0, 8 KOs) on Saturday, April 13, at Radio City Music Hall in New York, New York. HBO World Championship Boxing will televise the fight beginning at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT. The fight came … [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...]
Alvarez-Trout is signed for April 20 on Showtime
Contrary to earlier reports, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has elected to remove himself from the undercard of Floyd Mayweather’s May 4 WBC welterweight title defense against Robert Guerrero, set to take place at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada and broadcast live on Showtime Pay-Per-View. Alvarez has elected instead to unify his WBC junior middleweight title against WBA … [Read more...]
Broken News: Canelo-Cotto, Pacquiao-Marquez, and Don Jose Sulaiman
by Tim Harrison Being a member of the independent media isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, like most of the skulking, twitter-addicted, media-day-dwelling shills out there, we here at the Tribune can’t go out in public without having to fight adoring readers off with a tennis racket. But without the steady influx of revenue from the very subjects we’re expected to … [Read more...]
Miguel Cotto-Austin Trout: The Boxing Tribune Preview
by Fox Doucette “If everyone is special, then nobody is special,” the saying goes, and by that metric, Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KOs) and Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KOs) are fighting for the right to be complete nobodies Saturday night, December 1, at Madison Square Garden. The WBA World Championship is at stake at junior middleweight, which brings up all kinds of existential … [Read more...]