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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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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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The Duke: The Life and Lies of Tommy Morrison

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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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The Only Super Super-Middleweight: Saul Alvarez TKO 11 Caleb Plant

November 9, 2021 Jimmy Tobin

What is a winning strategy in boxing? One that maximizes a fighter’s chances of victory; a calculation incorporating strengths, weaknesses, tendencies, proclivities, even considerations of popularity, geography. And risk. Because such strategies do not exist […]

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The Diffusing: Tyson Fury Butchers Deontay Wilder Again

October 11, 2021 Jimmy Tobin

What did Mark Breland think? The towel that saved Deontay Wilder from Tyson Fury in their rematch. Breland threw it; it cost him his job. Would he have thrown it in the eighth round Saturday? […]

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Kingdom Come: Oleksandr Usyk Is a Heavyweight Champion

September 28, 2021 Jimmy Tobin

“No punches yet—use your feet, change direction. Hands up, but no punches yet.” Can you see the trainer, scrutinizing from beyond the ropes the boxer moving about the ring? “Okay, now add the jab, but […]

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Exit Strategy: In the Manner of Wayne Braithwaite

September 7, 2021 Jimmy Tobin

Were Tolstoy following boxing today, he might observe that all unhappy boxers are alike; but that each happy boxer is happy in his own manner. What awaits the men who find but one route beyond […]

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Manny Pacquiao and All That Remains

August 26, 2021 Jimmy Tobin

Perhaps politics is all that remains for the Senator. A different public service, one less exacting, less dangerous. The crowds, they will always be there—ever devoted, ever grateful, many of them looking to him for […]

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What’s in a Name: The (Thankfully) Unfinished Story of William Quintana

July 26, 2021 Jimmy Tobin

  “Only now is the child finally divested of all that he had been.”—Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian   William Quintana’s story begins before there is a William Quintana, back in San Jose, Costa Rica, when […]

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