Alphonso Costello

LB-4-LB Club: February’s Top-Ten Rankings

Writer's Note: 'The Following is For Entertainment Purposes Only’ By Alphonso Costello - Boxing’s pound-for-pound champion is a mythological concept much like the NCAA college football national championship. Pound-for-pound is a term used to descr...

LB-4-LB Club: January’s Top-Ten Rankings

By Alphonso Costello - Boxing’s pound-for-pound champion is a mythological concept much like the NCAA college football national championship. Pound-for-pound is a term used to describe the world’s best fighters regardless of weight. Just like the col...

LB-4-LB Club: Boxing’s Biggest Underachievers

By Alphonso Costello - Disappointment is an emotion of dissatisfaction that results when one’s expectations remain unfilled. The number of underachievers that didn’t fulfill their potential in the ring is infinite. Many promoters, television executi...

The LB-4-LB Club: Nov. Top-10 Rankings

By Alphonso Costello - Boxing’s pound-for-pound champion is a mythological concept much like the NCAA college football national championship. Pound-for-pound is a term used to describe the world’s best fighters regardless of weight. Just like the col...

The LB-4-LB Club: October’s Top-10 Rankings

By Alphonso Costello - Boxing’s pound-for-pound champion is a mythological concept much like the NCAA college football national championship. Pound-for-pound is a term used to describe the world’s best fighters regardless of weight. Just like the col...

Special Edition of Quick Jabs: Boxing’s Obituary

By Alphonso Costello - The United States of America considers all things dead that it cannot control or dominant. Over the course of the last two months much has been said about the death of boxing.

The LB-4-LB Club: April’s Top-Ten Rankings

By Alphonso Costello - Boxing’s pound-for-pound champion is a mythological concept much like the NCAA college football national championship. Pound-for-pound is a term used to describe the world’s best fighters regardless of weight. Just like the col...

Quick Jabs: Kessler, King and Mora Too

By Alphonso Costello - Dazzling knockouts, nifty footwork, electrifying exchanges and eloquent ramblings are all apart of the sweet science. There are articles, lists and shows dedicated to the most memorable fights, knockouts and fighters. You...

The LB-4-LB Club: March’s Top-10 Rankings

By Alphonso Costello - Boxing’s pound-for-pound champion is a mythological concept much like the NCAA college football national championship. Pound-for-pound is a term used to describe the world’s best fighters regardless of weight. Just like the col...

Quick Jabs: Mandatory Reading

Nobody likes to be told what to do, unless your initials are GWB and your strings are pulled by a guy named Dick. Yet, in the world of boxing every fighter looking for “championship” gold allows the alphabet soup organizations to authoritatively o...

The LB-4-LB Club: Feb. Top-Ten Power Rankings

Boxing’s pound-for-pound champion is a mythological concept much like the NCAA college football national championship. Pound-for-pound is a term used to describe the world’s best fighters regardless of weight. Just like the college football national...

Quick Jabs: The annual blank of the year awards

The inaugural Quick Jabs Blank of the Year Awards are brought to you by the great and not so great. These are awards that others have failed to recognize during the long and strenuous year of 2006.

The LB-4-LB Club: January Top-10 Power Rankings

Boxing’s pound-for-pound champion is a mythological concept much like the NCAA college football national championship. Pound-for-pound is a term used to describe the world’s best fighters regardless of weight. Just like the college football national...

Quick Jabs: The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

The legitimacy of psychic phenomena is a controversial topic amongst the science community.

The LB-4-LB Club: Dec. Top-Ten Power Rankings

Boxing’s pound-for-pound champion is a mythological concept much like the NCAA college football national championship. Pound-for-pound is a term used to describe the world’s best fighters regardless of weight. Just like the college football national...