Paul Magno
1,136 articles · Inside Fights
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Was Mayweather-Nasukawa Fixed? Does It Matter?
By Paul Magno
Looking at Tenshin Nasukawa flop around the ring at Saitama Prefecture Super Arena in Saitama, Japan on New Year?s Eve, apparently buzzed and scrambled by glancing arm punches from Floyd Mayweather, the…
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The Best Dead Boxing Idea Ever
By Paul Magno
Believe it or not, yours truly was once almost a boxing big shot. Well?kinda, sorta, anyway. A few years back, a boxing-loving restaurateur was about to come into some money and decided…
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I Got 88 Million Problems, But A Mayweather Ain?t One
By Paul Magno
Do you feel the tingling excitement of fight week? Technically, the Floyd Mayweather-Tenshin Nasukawa bout isn?t happening until next week?Monday, December 31, to be exact?but I guess this could still be classified…
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Honesty Was Not The Best Policy in Charlo Twin Bill
By Paul Magno
This is why fights are fixed. On Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the folks at Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) aired their debut card on Fox, showcasing fighting twins on the…
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The 175 Takeover Begins: Top Rank Signs Eleider Alvarez
By Paul Magno
Not too long ago, it looked as though the light heavyweight division was destined to be forever divided, with each world champ soon to be protected behind the shielding wall of a…
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By This Time Next Year?What Will Boxing?s Biggest Stars Have Done?
By Paul Magno
The boxing business seems to be in a state of flux at the moment with HBO bowing out of the business after 40+ years, ESPN now fully invested in the sport, and…
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DAZN?s Canelo-Fielding Mismatch Makes You Wonder?
By Paul Magno
Upstart streaming service DAZN has invested $365 million over five years in Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez?s star power?both exploiting it to bring in subscribers as well as building it for possible mainstream attention?and…
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Canelo vs. Rocky: This Rocky Story is About Cashing in and Cashing out
By Paul Magno
In the first Rocky film, Rocky Balboa was picked as a showcase patsy for defending superstar champ Apollo Creed. This Saturday, in the not-always-glamorous real world, Rocky Fielding was picked as a…
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Lomachenko: Chasing Greatness At The Expense of Virtuoso Brilliance
By Paul Magno
When a fighter is pushed to the extreme and shoved down one?s throat as modern day greatness on a scale with the all-time greats, there?s a tendency to push back?at least for…
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HBO Boxing?s Fitting Farewell: Old Men, A Crappy Card, and Zero Point To Tuning In
By Paul Magno
This Saturday?s final HBO Boxing telecast, headlined by women?s welterweight champion Cecilia Braekhus, will see the return of 87-year-old Larry Merchant for one final on-air chat with multi-decade broadcast partner Jim Lampley.…
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Wilder vs. Fury: Can The Gypsy King Handle a Bomb Blast?
By Paul Magno
Tyson Fury is a gigantic Irishman who looks like he should be able to move mountains with single shots. But ?The Gypsy King? fancies himself a slickster, an ?Ali-esque? boxer who is…
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Adrien Broner Says He?s Hall of Fame Material? Yeah, Right?
By Paul Magno
Adrien Broner feels that he?s a sure-thing Hall of Famer. I say he?s as goofy as a tennis helmet and as logical as a screen door on a submarine. Following a recent…
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Vasiliy Lomachenko and the Lowly Lightweights
By Paul Magno
In a recent interview with BoxNation in the UK, WBA lightweight champ Vasiliy Lomachenko stated that his primary goal in boxing is to etch his name in boxing history. ?My first goal…
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Broner is Perfect Fight for Pacquiao, Except?
By Paul Magno
When Manny Pacquiao returns to fight in the US for the first time in two years on January 19, tasked with facing Adrien Broner, he?ll be walking a familiar, comfortable path. The…
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Underdog Mikey Garcia Needs to Change Everything to Beat Errol Spence
By Paul Magno
Now that Mikey Garcia vs. Errol Spence is officially on the 2019 schedule, slated for March 16 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, it?s probably time to start taking the matchup seriously.…
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Can Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Still Matter?
By Paul Magno
A few years back, I wrote this in a piece entitled ?Chavez Jr. and the Arrogance of Ignorance:? ?It may seem as though Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was born a made man,…
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Arum on Spence-Garcia, Pacquiao-Broner: ?It?s all Bullsh*t?
By Paul Magno
Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum knows a thing or two about boxing sleight of hand and bait & switch and he is flat-out declaring Premier Boxing Champions? recent moves to be…
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Tough is not Enough: Soto Karass Upsets the Rooster
By Paul Magno
The Rooster? Neeco Macias (17-1, 10 KOs) did beleaguered veteran Jesus Soto Karass (29-13-4, 18 KOs) a huge favor Thursday night at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California by fighting his usual…
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I?m Drunk?and Mayweather?s Coming Back?Against a Japanese MMA Featherweight?
By Paul Magno
Ok, I?m going to admit that as I?m putting fingers to keyboard right now, I?m pretty damn wasted. There were some se?oritas, some Jimador tequila, more se?oritas, and maybe some other substances…
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ESPN: Worldwide Leader in Dubious Boxing Writing
By Paul Magno
First, I am absolutely not raging under a fit of jealousy about not having an ESPN gig. From the very first line of my very first boxing piece?some eleven (very) odd years…