Paul Magno
1,136 articles · Inside Fights
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Legends Die Hard: A Pacquiao vs. Matthysse Preview
By Paul Magno
If matched against a savvy, skilled boxer with comparable physical ability, Pacquiao would have real trouble? This Saturday on ESPN+ (Undercard begins at 9 p.m. ET, Main Event is programmed for some…
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Boxing?s Summer Recycling Plan
By Paul Magno
There?s nothing wrong with fighters who are less than top tier being able to earn some honest paydays? Not every baseball game is the seventh game of the World Series and not…
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Keith Thurman Turns On, Tunes In, and Drops Out
By Paul Magno
In recent videos and photos, Thurman has never looked happier?and, at the same time, never so far away from being in fighter mode? Try to wrangle an answer about Keith Thurman?s return…
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ESPN?s Hard Sell Makes Zurdo Ramirez Look Bad
By Paul Magno
It?s hard to be too harsh on the defending WBO super middleweight champ for looking fairly pedestrian against Angulo? If it weren?t for the extreme hard sell by the increasingly infomercial-like ESPN…
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Good News or Bad News?
By Paul Magno
Boxing is falling back on, again, messing with its loyalists. More and more, fight fans are being asked to pay more for less quality? Depending on how you look at things, Tuesday?s…
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The Great White?Missed Opportunity
By Paul Magno
Joe Smith Jr., the 28-year-old fighting construction worker from Long Island, never got the monstrous, life-changing payday that should?ve come his way? In boxing, if you want a quick and disproportionately large…
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Canelo vs. Golovkin 2: The Codependency Continues
By Paul Magno
Ever know a couple?or maybe you?re one-half of such a couple?that is just so awful for one another, yet they stay stuck to each other? Ever know a couple?or maybe you?re one-half…
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Is Patience a Virtue for Fans of Welterweight Boxing?
By Paul Magno
At this point that it?ll take tranquilizer darts and a giant butterfly net to ever get Pacquiao in the same ring with Crawford? Over at my other writing gig, I said that…
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Canelo Alvarez Stripped of Pretend Ring Magazine Title
By Paul Magno
If the purpose of rankings and titles is to bring order and respectability to the sport, then they need to reflect what?s actually going on in the sport? Having dragged myself out…
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Pulp Fiction
By Paul Magno
At the end of the day, it makes one wonder about the sadder tale coming from Saturday?s otherwise outstanding night of boxing? Jeff Horn didn?t beat Manny Pacquiao last July. Most smart…
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The Charlos May Be The Solution to Golovnelo
By Paul Magno
The surly powder keg image of the Charlos is somewhere between prime Mike Tyson and a jacked up World Star version of a grim Sonny Liston? Golovnelo. Like it? It?s the boxing…
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Lomachenko-Linares was a Big-Picture Flop
By Paul Magno
With an average of just 1.024 million viewers, the entertaining lightweight title bout utterly failed to reach anyone but the usual diehards? Apparently, it?s a tough concept for old guard boxing fans…
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Adonis Stevenson: Man and Superman
By Paul Magno
It?s okay to acknowledge both sides of Adonis Stevenson. It?s even okay to acknowledge, maybe, the ugliest of all realities? ?Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman?a rope…
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Lomachenko is a Victim of Boxing Business
By Paul Magno
Lomachenko could be an Ali without a Frazier, a Leonard without a Duran?a genius without true opposition? If you listened to the ESPN broadcast crew last Saturday, Vasyl Lomachenko was the best…
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One More Note on The Middleweights: 160 is Golovkin?s Division Now
By Paul Magno
Wherever the middleweight division goes from here, the reality is that the 160 lb. class is Gennady Golovkin?s? Wherever the middleweight division goes from here, the reality is that the 160 lb.…
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Vasyl Lomachenko and The Hype/Hate Dynamic
By Paul Magno
Fighting Orlando Salido and Gary Russell Jr. in your second and third fights as a pro is deserving of some serious boxing street cred? Hype is blinding. Most of the time, a…
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Jamie Munguia: From Human Sacrifice to World Champ?
By Paul Magno
Now that he has avoided becoming a human sacrifice at the altar of Triple G, he?ll have a chance at developing into the fighter he was meant to be? Twenty-one-year-old Tijuana prospect…
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Canelo Alvarez Exonerated? Does It Even Matter?
By Paul Magno
Boxing fans are a stubborn lot and once they decide that someone is persona non grata, there?s little anyone can do to budge them from their opinion? You can round up all…
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Thurman Makes Way for Welterweight Flow
By Paul Magno
The Thurman/WBC decision, although not exactly a cure-all for a division still handcuffed by politics to a great extent, is a win for boxing? We won?t know just how much of Keith…
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When Hunter Becomes Hunted: Why Charlo vs. Golovkin Ain?t Happening Anytime Soon
By Paul Magno
The fairytale myths constructed over the realities of the sport only hold water for those not wanting to know or acknowledge the truth? Moments after Jermall Charlo knocked out Hugo Centeno Jr.…