Paul Magno
1,136 articles · Inside Fights
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?Final Fight? ? Five For Floyd: The Sunday Brunch
By Paul Magno
Hola familia y amigos, welcome to a 16-bit flavored edition of Panama City?s highest rated, most money-squandering proper pugilistic paper, The Sunday Brunch ? We?re more filling than a Julio Cesar Chavez…
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Freak Show ala Mexicana; Magno?s Monday Rant
By Paul Magno
Looking like a cross between Lou Ferrigno and a geisha girl, Mexico?s Jorge Kahwagi, sporting what looked to be oversized pectoral, bicep, and shoulder implants, along with copious amounts of plastic surgery…
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Mosley-Mayorga 2 And The Value Of Jurassic Matchmaking
By Paul Magno
I suppose there could be worse things than watching Shane Mosley and Ricardo Mayorga fumble around for twelve rounds on a hot August evening. The humanitarian in me says that a Mosley-Mayorga…
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Dispelling The Mayweather vs. Pacquiao Myths
By Paul Magno
It?s been almost two months since the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao mega-fight and the boxing landscape is unchanged. Nothing was really settled by the most lucrative prizefight of all-time. The only real accomplishments…
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Six Crucial Questions For Premier Boxing Champions; Magno?s Monday Rant
By Paul Magno
No matter what you hear via media speculation, nobody outside of Haymon Boxing and their direct business contacts knows the long-term strategy of the Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) project. Could they be…
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Don?t Count On Cotto-Canelo! What Miguel Cotto Learned From Mayweather and Pacquiao
By Paul Magno
Before investing too many of your brain cells into Miguel Cotto vs. Saul Alvarez pre-fight analysis, I?d suggest you hold off a bit. There?s probably a better than even-money chance that it…
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Miguel Cotto Doesn?t Owe You (Or Boxing) Anything
By Paul Magno
Miguel Cotto?s decision to face Daniel Geale this Saturday instead of Saul Alvarez or Gennady Golovkin has plenty of people up in arms about the Puerto Rican?s apparent disregard for the fans…
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Revenge of the Nerds (Hell Hath No Fury?); Magno?s Monday Rant
By Paul Magno
It?s said that rats will eat their own tails if properly upset or cut off from food for an extended period of time. In the world of boxing writing, the two-legged variety…
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Questions Remain About Manny Pacquiao?s Shoulder And The Injection He Requested
By Paul Magno
We have now heard two completely different stories regarding the shoulder of Manny Pacquiao and whether he was or was not injured coming into his May 2 bout with Floyd Mayweather. Neither…
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The Golovkin Reign: At What Point Do You Feel Disrespected? Magno?s Monday Rant
By Paul Magno
If you like security cam footage of old ladies being mugged and videos of baby seals being clubbed by Eskimos, then Gennady Golovkin?s HBO reign of terror is right up your alley.…
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Just Face It, Manny Pacquiao Ruined The Mega-Fight For Boxing
By Paul Magno
It?s a bitter pill to swallow if you?re a fan of Manny Pacquiao. But, more than ten days removed from the Super Bowl of boxing against Floyd Mayweather, your head should be…
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Did Floyd Mayweather Kill Boxing?
By Paul Magno
Maybe it would?ve been better if Mayweather and Pacquiao had never fought at all. Both fan bases could?ve saved face and each fighter?s team could still claim the high road. Optimism, illusion,…
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Team Pacquiao?s Chickens Come Home To Roost; Magno?s Monday Rant
By Paul Magno
It?s hard to really take your opponent seriously when you?ve been told constantly for more than five years that he?s running scared from you, cowering at the very thought of facing his…
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On Floyd Mayweather and Domestic Violence: Why Your “Decency” is Futile
By Paul Magno
Twice a year a handful of boxing scribes become soul-searching social workers in pursuit of the vile, misogynist Floyd ?Money? Mayweather. Some have even made somewhat of a cottage industry of stalking…
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Mayweather-Pacquiao: Is The Fix In? Magno?s Monday Rant
By Paul Magno
Back when George Foreman was making his infamous comeback, a teenage me approached my boxing mentor after hearing that some of Big George?s early opponents had been accused of taking a dive.…
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The Mayweather-Pacquiao Blues; Magno?s Monday Rant
By Paul Magno
The big fight is less than two weeks away and the serially disgruntled are already well into fight week form. In some company, it?s almost as though you risk being seen as…
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Terence Crawford vs. Thomas Dulorme: The Boxing Tribune Preview
By Paul Magno
The road to boxing stardom is rigged with many obstacles. From ex-champs and one-time contenders to one-trick pretenders and battle-hardened journeymen. Terence Crawford (25-0, 17 KOs), despite glowing praise from media and…
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Soldiers Of Fortune; Magno?s Monday Rant
By Paul Magno
So much about boxing is subjective and it?s this aspect of the sport that leads to double standards galore. If, for whatever reason, you have an agenda against a specific fighter, a…
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Arum Blames Media For?Listening To Him? Magno?s Monday Rant
By Paul Magno
this five-year Mayweather-Pacquiao fight-stalling fiasco. Of course, he?s pointing the finger now and not before the official mega-fight signing when members of his own Top Rank team, and even his own son-in-law,…
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Mayweather, Pacquiao, and PEDs; Magno?s Monday Rant
By Paul Magno
Blood and urine are being collected ahead of the May 2 Mayweather-Pacquiao mega-fight, but the only thing really being tested is the general gullibility of media and fans. Actually, the entire voluntary…