Paul Magno
1,136 articles · Inside Fights
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Float Like a Butterfly, Hustled Like a Rube
By Paul Magno
The timing was a little too convenient, don’t you think? A week before the rewritten Senate version of the Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act was formally introduced in the U.S. Senate,…
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Why knocking out the Ali Act is a KO for boxing’s future
By Paul Magno
Why the hell should you, the boxing fan, care about the current efforts to amend the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act? You just want fights. You want to sit down with a…
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Zuffa Boxing and the Inzuffrable Zuffamercial
By Paul Magno
Back in my morphine days, one especially horrific moment stands out. I was paralyzed, but fully conscious, in room 309 of the Hotel Morelia Imperial in Morelia, Mexico with the TV blaring…
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Let’s, Please, Kill Shakur Stevenson vs. William Zepeda
By Paul Magno
It’s being reported that William Zepeda aggravated a previous hand injury in his recent bout with Tevin Farmer and will be out 6 to 8 weeks. This means that Zepeda’s talked-about February…
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Farmer-Zepeda Drug Testing Irregularity Raises Concerns; WBC, Golden Boy Snub Accountability
By Paul Magno
Last Saturday, Tevin Farmer went into Golden Boy’s “Latino Night” card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the decided “visitor.” He would perform about as well as could expected, dropping the no. 1…
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Usyk, Fury, Joshua, Dubois Face Muddled Mess In Saudi-Controlled Heavyweight Division
By Paul Magno
There’s some good news and some bad news when it comes to the heavyweight division in boxing. The good news is that we’re probably going to see more mix-and-match heavyweight championship bouts…
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Ryan Garcia Faces Rough Road After Suspension
By Paul Magno
Ryan Garcia likes to call himself “Blessed, Highly Favored,” in reference to that godawful song he released a few months back. And that may be true in many areas of his life.…
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Arum: Turki Alalshikh Circumvented Legality To Make Jared Anderson-Martin Bakole Bout
By Paul Magno
Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum has revealed that Saudi Arabia’s Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority, Turki Alalshikh, circumvented his authority as Jared Anderson’s promoter to directly make this past August’s,…
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Gary Russell Jr., Gervonta Davis, And The Comical Callout
By Paul Magno
The last time Gary Russell Jr. won a boxing match, United States COVID patient zero had just been admitted to the hospital with the then-unknown virus. It was February of 2020. Russell…
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Report: Terence Crawford-Tim Tszyu Soon To Be On The Table
By Paul Magno
According to his team, there’s already a firm plan in place for Tim Tszyu when/if he beats Bakhram Murtazaliev for the IBF junior middleweight title this coming Saturday in Orlando, Florida. And…
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Canelo’s Game of Duck, Duck, Golden Goose
By Paul Magno
A writing mentor of mine once told me, “You’re either all the way in or all the way out.” I’ve followed that advice all throughout my writing life and career. Of course,…
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Oscar De La Hoya Focused On Counseling (And Enabling) Ryan Garcia
By Paul Magno
When Oscar De La Hoya isn’t “clapping back” at the boxing rivals living rent-free in his head, he’s chop-blocking for Ryan Garcia– a multiple-time disgraced fighter and one-time bitter social media sparring…
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Path Cleared For Horrible, Horrible Gervonta Davis PPV Bout Source: Path Cleared For Horrible, Horrible Gervonta Davis PPV Bout
By Paul Magno
Ugh…Double Ugh. It appears that the path has been cleared for the much-rumored, much-dreaded (at least by me) pay-per-view bout between Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Lamont Roach. Davis, of course, is one…
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Devin Haney Sues Ryan Garcia, Golden Boy For April 20 PEDs Debacle Source: Devin Haney Sues Ryan Garcia, Golden Boy For April 20 PEDs Debacle
By Paul Magno
Well, Devin Haney might not get any old school tough guy street cred for doing this, but he probably made the right life decision. Haney and his legal team have filed a…
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Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois: Battle of the Reborn or Clash of Optical Illusions?
By Paul Magno
All of this should be prefaced by saying that Anthony Joshua vs. Daniel Dubois, from Wembley Stadium this Saturday, is a good fight and a meaningful fight– even with bogus “world title”…
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Is Canelo Alvarez Worth It Anymore? Why PBC Should Move On from The Canelo Business
By Paul Magno
I couldn’t have been the only one thinking it on Saturday night, while watching the Saul Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga bout from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. “Why is this a big deal? Why…
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Saul Alvarez vs. Edgar Berlanga: A Preview To A Mugging
By Paul Magno
Mexican superstar and former fully-unified super middleweight world champion, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (61-2-2, 39 KOs) returns to the ring this Saturday, September 14, headlining a PBC Pay-Per-View event on Prime Video from…
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Edgar Berlanga’s Delusion Helping To Make Canelo Fight Somewhat Interesting
By Paul Magno
According to some sportsbooks, which take such wagers, the likelihood of aliens making public contact with Earth is a +900 bet– something which, according to DraftKings, is a greater possibility than Edgar…
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Ryan Garcia’s Biggest Delusion: The Elites Are Eating Babies Or I Can Beat Terence Crawford?
By Paul Magno
Ryan Garcia has spewed more goofiness. And, well, on a slow news day, that’s the kind of stuff that gets some prime site space. It’s either that or re-posting press-released info in…
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WBC President to Boxing: Stop Bullying Canelo!
By Paul Magno
When WBC president for life, Jose Sulaiman passed away more than a decade ago, we lost his unintentionally humorous and frequently vexing Gancho al Higaro (Hook to the Liver) column. His son…