Please Welcome The Boxing Bulletin to SBN

by SC on Nov 20, 2009 10:17 AM EST in Features Comment 8 comments

I'd like everyone at Bad Left Hook to join me in a warm welcome to The Boxing Bulletin, SBN's newest site and a brother community for us in covering the sweet science. You may already be familiar with the site, as they've been pumping out fantastic analysis for a while now. They're a wonderful team of writers and I couldn't be happier to call them colleagues under the SBN banner.

Some recent highlights from The Boxing Bulletin that will get you familiar with their work:

Pacquiao's Triumph, Cotto's Tragedy by Jeff Pryor

Rendall Munroe-Simone Maludrottu Preview by Matt Chudley (Bad Left Hook will cover this show live at 5pm ET today, and this is as good a preview for the fight as you're going to find)

Boxing's Best Seniors - 10 Big Wins from Fighters Over 40 by Andrew Fruman

Ryan Rhodes-Jamie Moore Photo Gallery (Photographer: Chris Royle)

Interview with Odlanier Solis' Trainers Pedro Diaz & Russ Abner by Ivan Montiel

David Tua Can Still Make Some Noise by Lee Payton

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Awesome! But ive often wondered (with the MMA sites at least) why not consolidate into one super blog?

by ryanwk628 on Nov 20, 2009 12:01 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Awesome! But ive often wondered (with the MMA sites at least) why not consolidate into one super blog?

Why consolidate? They do their thing, we do ours.

Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes

by SC on Nov 20, 2009 12:18 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

well the entire point of a blog (in my eyes) is supposed to be single source coverage consolidating what various media outlets may touch on but not focus on. With the MMA pages they end up citing each other all the time. Bloodyelbow will have “MMA Mania is reporting…” stories fronted. Its all part of the SBN umbrella. Then I look at pinstripe alley where Ed Valentine joined the staff from Big Blue View and the quality of the blog significantly increased. I was not a Pinstripe alley reader before because it was not really comprehensive. More people posting means more opinions and stories. Bloggers have more time to work on posts and the quality seems to go up. This is why I read Bloodyelbow over the other MMA blogs out there. They seem to cover it all and I dont have to go clicking through 10 sites to find a story. The writers often disagree but it all comes out well in the end.

My 2c

by ryanwk628 on Nov 20, 2009 2:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It’s really as simple as “because we don’t want to.” They do their thing. We do ours. We have different philosophies on how to run sites. You put 20 writers together (who are doing this LARGELY because we want to, and not for money) and you’re going to wind up with splintering factions anyway.

Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes

by SC on Nov 20, 2009 2:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Cool. To be honest I had no idea they existed, so I'm glad you posted this.

Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"

by Matt Miller on Nov 20, 2009 12:09 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

They just got onto SBN this morning, their old blog got everything transferred over into the new site. They’re really, really good (but then I already said that)

Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes

by SC on Nov 20, 2009 12:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs