External On Gamboa, Cowardice, Contracts, and Brandon Rios One of the nice things about having your own website is that you get to make the editorial calls and set the overall tone of the place. But … Thu, 08 Mar 2012
External Acknowledging Pacquiao?s Role in Mega-Fight Collapse; Fan?s Perspective The talk never ends and the controversy never dies. The Mayweather-Pacquiao debate will likely go on forever, even if the mega-fight never h… Wed, 07 Mar 2012
External Manny, Please Move Away from the Light; Magno?s Monday Rant By reading some media accounts, Manny Pacquiao is a cross between Henry Armstrong and Saint Thomas Aquinas with a little Bruce Lee thrown in… Mon, 27 Feb 2012
External The Welterweight Roundup (The Complete Schedule of 147 Lb. Action) For fans of the 147 lb. division, here's a roundup of the major welterweight bouts scheduled so far this year: The biggest stars of the welt… Sun, 26 Feb 2012
External Spring Loaded; Boxing?s Sizzling Spring Season If you've been wondering why so little high-end boxing action has been going on in recent months, you're not alone. It appears as though the… Mon, 20 Feb 2012
External Alvarez, Mosley, and Realism; Fan?s Take In a perfect world, every fight would be an epic slugfest, the fans would be the ultimate matchmakers, and cotton candy would grow on trees … Thu, 16 Feb 2012
External Canelo Alvarez in Search of Challengers for Mayweather-Cotto Co-Feature; Fan?s Take 21-year-old WBC junior middleweight champion, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez is scheduled to make the fourth defense of his title May 5th, on the Flo… Fri, 10 Feb 2012
External Is Donaire - Mares the Next Big One? Fan?s Take Whether Pacquiao-Mayweather ever gets made, boxing may be catching the early glimpses of yet another mega-fight on the horizon. Nonito Donai… Thu, 09 Feb 2012
External Pacquiao-Bradley Makes Sense, but Will it Make Cents? Fan?s Take Even the most cynical of boxing fans has to admit that Monday's announced Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley clash on June 9th at the MGM Grand … Tue, 07 Feb 2012
External Walking in the Shadows of Tyrants: A UFC Model for Boxing? The UFC?s rapid expansion, from a minor entity to a legitimate mainstream presence, stands in contrast to the stifled, frustrating mess of t… Fri, 20 Jan 2012
External The Many Smokescreens of Team Pacquiao; Fan?s Take After months upon months of confusing and often infuriating misdirections, fans have slowly come to the realization that Pacquiao-Mayweather… Wed, 18 Jan 2012
External Mayweather vs. Guerrero: No Sense and No Cents? As a candidate for a bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr., it seems as though Robert Guerrero?s name was snatched out of thin air. On every level,… Tue, 10 Jan 2012
External Chavez-Rubio, Donaire-Vazquez: When a Good Card Goes Bad There was no need to strap a world title belt around Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.?s waist. The WBC was getting their 3% from then-champ, Sergio Ma… Fri, 06 Jan 2012
External Marquez won?t wait long for Pacquiao ?After the first Pacquiao fight, I had to wait four years and after the second, three more years passed. That?s why if the fourth isn?t sign… Fri, 30 Dec 2011
External Floyd Mayweather Bets $1 Million Against Tim Tebow To the consternation of many Mayweather critics, after a competitive first quarter between the two teams, the Patriots would run away with t… Fri, 30 Dec 2011
External Juan Manuel Marquez won?t wait too long for another Pacquiao bout At a public appearance in Mexico City, Juan Manuel Marquez told the assembled media that it?s now or never for a fourth bout with Manny Pacq… Thu, 29 Dec 2011
External Mayweather, Pacquiao Private Lives Should Be Off-Limits; Fan?s Perspective By now, everyone knows about Floyd Mayweather Jr. and his 90-day jail sentence. Fans and critics have lit up message boards and social media… Mon, 26 Dec 2011
External The Rise and Fall of Kelly Pavlik; Fan?s Perspective Pavlik had come up old school-style, plying his craft on obscure undercards and in swing bouts on Spanish language telecasts. Slowly, with h… Fri, 23 Dec 2011
External Mayweather?s jail sentence offers perfect excuse to kill Mayweather-Pacquiao buzz On Tuesday, WBC welterweight champ and reigning face of American boxing, Floyd Mayweather Jr., agreed to a plea deal on a felony domestic vi… Thu, 22 Dec 2011
External The Boxing Tribune Year-End Awards: 2011 2011 was a mixed bag for fight fans. Marred by poor officiating, awful judging, and stifling promotional politics, boxing could easily have … Thu, 22 Dec 2011
