Paul Magno
1,136 articles · Inside Fights
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Edwin Valero?s Last Hours
By Paul Magno
A murdered young wife, two orphans (ages 8 and 5 at the time), and a tragically wasted talent?that is the legacy left behind by Edwin Valero? ?Now I?ve screwed up for real?I?ll…
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Rod Salka: Poster Boy for Racist Impotence
By Paul Magno
Decked out in his President Trump-loving ?America 1st? trunks, Salka was delivering a race-based message to the boxing world? Make no mistake about it, there was nothing ?innocent? or ?quaintly patriotic? about…
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Terence Crawford: Boxing?s Most Talented Nowhere Man
By Paul Magno
Crawford?s promoter (and I use that term very loosely), Bob Arum, seems to have officially stopped caring about getting him real exposure? Terence Crawford is the all-around best fighter in the world…
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A Streaming Pile of Crap: ESPN/Top Rank Add Yet Another Paywall to Boxing
By Paul Magno
But there was hope that, at the very least, new eyes were being exposed to the sport. And then that hope crumbled? Last summer, when Top Rank and ESPN announced a partnership…
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The Bloated Entitlement of a Bloated WBC President
By Paul Magno
In the case of Sulaiman, Canelo, and the ultimately failed efforts to keep the Cinco de Mayo fight date, the WBC has once again shown its true self? When WBC president for…
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Jaded Joshua Ruins The Day
By Paul Magno
This may have been ?boxing finesse,? as he bragged in the post-fight interview, but it was also cynical as fuck? Anthony Joshua was supposed to be the savior of boxing?a heavyweight with…
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Pacquiao vs. Matthysse vs. Arum
By Paul Magno
At this point in time, Pacquiao appears more than willing to work with Arum in the future. But, clearly, the dynamic has changed? Manny Pacquiao will fight Lucas Matthysse on July 8…
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A World Without a Canelo-Golovkin Rematch
By Paul Magno
A hearing is set for April 10 to determine whether Canelo is an intentional cheat or the product of doped up Mexican beef? As the entire boxing world knows already, the Nevada…
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Whispers to a Mad Kazakh (or: Golovkin, slow your roll)
By Paul Magno
?I just realized that these people, people like that, are terrorists, they are killing the sport?People like that, they have to be in prison?? There?s enough plausible deniability in the whole Canelo…
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Let?s put Mayweather and Pacquiao on a boat?
By Paul Magno
I don?t see any other way boxing can move forward while these two continue to suck up the sport?s life force without putting much back? OK?Hear me out. Let?s figure a way…
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Garcia, Ramirez, and Prograis Lead 140 Rebirth
By Paul Magno
Anais Nin may not have known much about boxing, but she was dead-on about the nature of life and man. In chaos, there is fertility? As things turned out, the junior welterweight…
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Can Carlos Molina Spoil Josh Kelly?s Coming Out Party?
By Paul Magno
He faces an uphill challenge on March 31, that?s for sure. But uphill challenges have been his ?thing? since he became a pro fifteen years ago? Molina got a crash course in…
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Mikey Garcia and The Science of Violence
By Paul Magno
?Skill? is almost a dirty word among boxing fans these days because it?s become associated with fighters on roller skates stinking up arenas? At the heart of Mikey Garcia?s ring efforts is…
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Golovkin?s Trainer Cries Foul, Claims Vegas Favors Canelo
By Paul Magno
As much as we?d like to pretend that boxing is a ?real? sport, operated and governed like other ?real? sports, the reality screams otherwise? During an interview with Yahoo?s Kevin Iole on…
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Canelo KOs Self With Failed Drug Test
By Paul Magno
The sweeping dismissals and catty memes are already being cranked out. Golden Boy?s golden goose is cooked? As everyone likely knows by now, Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez has tested positive for the banned…
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Deontay Wilder?s Wilder and Wilder Ride
By Paul Magno
His style is less prime George Foreman and more drunken tranny in a White Castle parking lot brawl? Back a couple of years ago, this is what I had to say about…
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HBO Boxing: From Superfly to Super Mess
By Paul Magno
Peter Nelson, like most writers, is good at knowing what HE likes and good at creating concepts around what pleases HIM? HBO, the one-time king of American boxing programming, is now a…
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By Hook or By Crook, Luis Ortiz is Going Down
By Paul Magno
Would Deontay Wilder?s people be so dumb as to leave everything up to chance, now, right before it?s time to cash-out? As I wrote previously?By hook or by crook, Luis Ortiz is…
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Manny Pacquiao Enters His Fat Elvis Era
By Paul Magno
For all intents and purposes, Pacquiao is now the boxing equivalent of fat Elvis Presley in Vegas, going through the motions and banking on nostalgia? When swooning, middle-aged housewives packed themselves into…
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The Night Everyone Forgot Errol Spence Existed
By Paul Magno
This doesn?t bode well for the likelihood of seeing Spence in a real, career-defining fight against one of the fellow welterweight elite any time soon? Imagine a world without Errol Spence Jr.…