Freak Show ala Mexicana
Looking like a cross between Lou Ferrigno and a geisha girl, Mexico’s Jorge Kahwagi, sporting what looked to be oversized pectoral, bicep, a
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
Canelo as WBC “Franchise Champ?” Makes Perfect Sense
it frees up any big-earner of the sanctioning body’s choosing to disregard the pesky challenges, no matter how deserving, of not-so-big earn
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
Muhammad Ali
But unlike most other fearless warriors willing to stare down a nation, Ali’s wasn’t a suicide mission. He actually won. The world bent to a
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 4 min
Texas: The Best Little Whorehouse in Boxing
And speaking of doctors, how about the wonderful story of “Dr. Ray?” For those unfamiliar, Ray Ybarra was a ringside physician appointed by
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 4 min
The Bloated Entitlement of a Bloated WBC President
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 tr
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 5 min
Golovkin: Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride
By the time Golovkin and his team would actually hit the ring at the StubHub center, the West Coast press corps was bursting with anticipato
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 5 min
The Wild, Wild World of Zeferino Jackson
The biggest boxing story of the last century was overlooked in 2010 when intrepid writer Zeferino Jackson revealed the connection between fo
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 5 min
In Defense of Rubio’s “Disgrace” Against Golovkin
When faced with an insulting lose-lose proposition and the absurd realities of the boxing star-making process, Marco Antonio Rubio opted to
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 4 min
No One Here Gets Out Alive (Who Really Killed Frankie Leal?)
Boxing is a dark, dangerous alley. Of those who enter, few will survive and thrive…many, many more will never emerge. There is no safe dista
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 5 min
Revenge of the Nerds (Mayweather-Pacquiao Snubs Draw Ire of Boxing Media)
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 w
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 5 min
Jose Sulaiman and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr: An Erotic Love Story
“Listen,” Sulaiman continued. “I know I am 81 and you are 27, but we are so right together. I am not a jealous man, I can share. I will shar
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
I Pity The Poor Immigrant Kovalev
A tear is rolling down my cheek as I write this. I wish I could give the big galoot a gigantic bro hug and maybe offer my services as cultur
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 5 min
Don King is Boxing
This was King’s world and he could do as he pleased with little fear of repercussion. The FBI tried to bring him down, so did then-New York
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 4 min
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.: The Career Postmortem
Jr. sat in his corner, dejected and deflated, protected from the debris with towels by his corner men while his father battled with angry fa
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
Burn Down The Boxing Hall of Fame
No sport is as buried in nostalgia and hopeless romanticism as boxing. And, by “buried,” I mean up to its nostrils, arms pinned at its side
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 6 min
Augustus and Everything After
After seventeen years as a professional boxer, Emanuel Augustus came home to Baton Rouge at 37 years of age without a suitcase or driver’s l
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
HBO Boxing’s Fitting Farewell: Old Men, A Crappy Card, and Zero Point To Tuning In
Old men chatting up a self-indulgent storm during a shitty card. There couldn’t be a more fitting farewell for HBO Boxing
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 5 min
Lazarte, Club Once Unidos, and The Lifetime Ban
Teamsters dressed in their green work jackets and hats stormed the ring, flinging chairs and looking to start fist fights with Casimero, his
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 5 min
Boxing’s Weight Game: Our Legalized Cheat
Boxing’s ugly and dangerous taste for weight manipulation can be traced back to L’Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington DC, just six blocks from
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paulmagno2
- Apr 26, 2022
- 4 min
Mayweather & The Creeping Call of Irrelevance
If the five-division former world champ really wants to be as happy as he portrays himself to be—stacks of cash all around him and a pack of
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