Paul Magno
1,136 articles · Inside Fights
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Anthony Joshua: Clown Prince
By Paul Magno
Seeing as how former three-belt world heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua has recently called former three-belt champ Lennox Lewis ?a clown? for Lewis? criticisms of certain career choices, it?s only fair to turn…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr., The Best Ever?Scientifically Proven?
By Paul Magno
It?s amazing what kind of amusing bullshit finds its way on to my Facebook timeline. Most recently, someone shared a screen shot of BoxRec?s all-time pound-for-pound list with Floyd Mayweather Jr. sitting…
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No?Canelo and Ruiz are not Divas
By Paul Magno
We see the ?Diva? word tossed around quite a bit in boxing. This past week, in reference to Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez and Andy Ruiz Jr., it was bounced around on the online…
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Coming Back from Nowhere
By Paul Magno
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. wasn?t always a walking punchline. There was a relatively short period of time where he moved like a real fighter and reacted like a real fighter?maybe a fight…
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Boo Boo and The Canelo Lottery Scratch-Offs
By Paul Magno
If there are ?serious? talks going on between Team Canelo Alvarez and Team Demetrius Andrade?as was reported after Canelo negotiations with IBF mandatory opponent Sergiy Derevyanchenko were guillotined? ?Boo Boo? Andrade is…
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Tyson Fury: Robbing from The Rich, Giving To Himself
By Paul Magno
Last June, when Tyson Fury made his ESPN debut against German ?berNobody Tom Schwarz, many forgave the Gypsy King for the softball matchmaking. After all, it was Fury?s first bout back after…
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Mo Money, Mo Problems in Canelo-DAZN Deal
By Paul Magno
When Golden Boy went nutso with the press release button last October, sharing specifics about their Canelo Alvarez DAZN deal with every rinky-dink boxing website with a gmail address, they were setting…
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I Pity The Poor Immigrant Kovalev
By Paul Magno
Cut the big Russian some slack. He?s just a befuddled immigrant, not fully comprehending American customs and culture. That?s what I?ve been told, anyway, every time the 3-time light heavyweight champ does…
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Mayweather & The Creeping Call of Irrelevance
By Paul Magno
Floyd Mayweather could only take about three days of the boxing world heaping praise on Manny Pacquiao before he exploded. In the wake of Pacquiao?s impressive win over Keith Thurman on July…
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On Death and Dying?in Boxing
By Paul Magno
If you?ve trained fighters or if you?ve been a fighter yourself, you know the look. The kid?s sitting in the far corner of the dressing room. Hands are wrapped, sweat is dripping…
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Teofimo Lopez Exposed? No, ESPN was Exposed
By Paul Magno
Last Friday night on ESPN+, 21-year-old lightweight prospect Teofimo Lopez failed to steamroll similarly undefeated Japanese lightweight Masayoshi Nakatani and everyone went ape shit. ESPN commentator Timothy Bradley said, repeatedly, that Lopez…
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Canelo?s The Boss (At Least For Now)
By Paul Magno
Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez isn?t going to be fighting this September 14 and he?s passing on the big Mexican Independence Day fight date, which has become a tradition of sorts in boxing, because…
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Caleb Plant Battles Life Through Mike Lee
By Paul Magno
To someone like Caleb Plant, Mike Lee, who will challenge for Plant?s IBF super middleweight title on FOX PBC Fight Night before this Saturday?s Manny Pacquiao-Keith Thurman PPV card, is the embodiment…
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Pacquiao Plans On Re-Conquering The World
By Paul Magno
Four years ago, multi-division world champ Manny Pacquiao had just cashed in on the monster payday against Floyd Mayweather he had been pursuing for years and was claiming a bum shoulder that…
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Dana White?s Gonna Save Boxing!
By Paul Magno
Well, thank God the UFC?s Dana White plans on saving boxing. White from MMAFighting.com: ?If you look at the way that it was in the 80s, 90s, even the early 2000s, you…
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Magno?s Guide to The Summer Boxing Schedule
By Paul Magno
We?ve certainly seen better when it comes to a summer boxing schedule, but beggars can?t be choosers in this current phase of big-time prizefighting. Having said that, though, there?s enough on deck…
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Who?s The Boss? DAZN vs. Canelo
By Paul Magno
It wasn?t hard for DAZN to green light $365 million for Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez and it sure as hell was not hard for Alvarez to take that money. The hard part, though,…
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Khan vs. Dib: As Negative As Negative Gets
By Paul Magno
One of the criticisms I get a lot is that I?m too negative. I?ve even been accused of playing the intentional curmudgeon as a gimmick, dwelling on the negative to play-act boxing…
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Canelo as WBC ?Franchise Champ?? Makes Perfect Sense
By Paul Magno
Last Wednesday, the WBC announced that they were elevating WBC middleweight champ Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez to Franchise Champion. The boxing media, sensing a suitably safe target to play-act outrage, jumped all over…
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What?s Standing Between the Charlo Brothers and Superstardom
By Paul Magno
When GQ writes about boxing, you know the subject matter is mainstream-friendly. Last August, the men?s style and fashion magazine sported a feature article on the Charlo Twins, Jermall and Jermell, that…