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Articles by Jimmy Tobin

About Jimmy Tobin
Jimmy Tobin is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. His work has appeared in The Cruelest Sport, 15 Rounds, Undisputed Champion Network, Esquina Boxeo, El Malpensante, The Queensbury Rules, and The Fight Network. Jimmy is the author of Killed in Brazil? The Mysterious Death of Arturo “Thunder” Gatti, published by Hamilcar Publications. Connect with Jimmy on Twitter.
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Exterminated: Jesse Rodriguez Romps Over the Rat King

June 28, 2022 Jimmy Tobin

He didn’t protest; what little resistance he managed through the previous half-hour—even that was beyond him now. For seven rounds his body betrayed him, whipped mercilessly along the way by an attendant tormentor, one whose […]

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Comfort in the Abattoir: Artur Beterbiev Slaughters Joe Smith Jr.

June 20, 2022 Jimmy Tobin

Some ten minutes—was it even that long?—after the opening bell of the light heavyweight unification fight between Artur Beterbiev and Joe Smith Jr., there was a sign that one of the more endearing of boxing’s […]

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The Duke: The Life and Lies of Tommy Morrison

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The Lion’s Only: Jermell Charlo Rules the Junior Middleweight Division

May 16, 2022 Jimmy Tobin

A proliferation of titles plagues boxing. The ticks and leeches who sanction championship belts, who create newer ones in the hope of tapping fresh veins—we should be rid of them. Let’s accept that as true. […]

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Dmitrii Bivol Dominates Saul Alvarez

May 10, 2022 Jimmy Tobin

1. Maybe they thought him too green, too inexperienced, susceptible to the pressure of the moment and its greater expectations. Maybe they looked at his record, the paltry eleven knockouts in nineteen fights, and thought […]

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Dominance Absent Danger: Shakur Stevenson Routes Oscar Valdez

May 2, 2022 Jimmy Tobin

ESPN ran an odd graphic during its broadcast of the fight between Shakur Stevenson and Oscar Valdez from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Saturday. Along with the standard tale of the tape […]

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The Merciless: Errol Spence TKO10 Yordenis Ugas

April 18, 2022 Jimmy Tobin

Something is reassuring about the end of the improbable. Yordenis Ugas was and is an incredible story. That story culminated last August when Ugas (replacing the injured Errol Spence) made a full-time politician of Manny […]

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Dreams and Nightmares: Sebastian Fundora Batters Erickson Lubin

April 13, 2022 Jimmy Tobin

The champion on the comeback trail knows this much: he was a champion. His return to glory culminates in the familiar; it confirms expectations and estimations alike. But what of the fighter who fell short […]

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Royalty: Roman Gonzalez Beats Back Julio Cesar Martinez

March 8, 2022 Jimmy Tobin

Don’t be fooled. The orange expanse, black piping, white spots that Mullerian mimicry isn’t quite deception, but one is not the other. They are both toxic; they patrol similar territory, each is striking in its […]

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Hardwired: Nate Campbell Then and Now

January 18, 2022 Jimmy Tobin

“I’m not happy, don’t you believe that shit. I’ll fight every day,” he says with a punctuating chuckle. He’s joking, at least partially so. Nate Campbell is certainly happy, his easy conversation carried by the […]

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Heightened Predation: Terence Crawford TKO 10 Shawn Porter

November 22, 2021 Jimmy Tobin

There are the lights to contend with, their heat and burst, their merciless illumination. The pressure of the moment, too, pregnant with disaster, ready to rewrite, to unmake. And the dialogue, unpredictable, violent, violently unpredictable. […]

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