Description

Rob and Butch are lifelong boxing fans who started a podcast in 2020 with lots of ideas, one of which was to pick historic boxing matches, watch them, score them individually, and then discuss the fight and compare their round-by-round scores on a podcast! We started out with major fights from our favorite eras - 1980s and 1990s - and of our favorite fighters: Butch's all-time favorite is George Foreman, and Rob's is Evander Holyfield. At first we mostly stayed in and around the heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions, with some dabbling in welterweight and middleweight bouts from the 1980s.

Then we decided to watch, and rank, every Ring Magazine Fight of the Year from 1970 to 2021, a total of 52 fights. We chose each fight at random, using gaming dice to decide which was next, and after we watched, scored, and discussed each fight in a separate episode, and did a forced ranking of all 52 fights of the year 1970-2021 as we went.

Following THAT project, we decided to tackle Ring Magazine ROUNDS of the year, and we also decided to go back to the very beginning in 1945 all the way to modern day in 2024, a total of 80 different rounds of the year. Once again, we select one year at random we watch that year's round of the year, score it, discuss it, and then rank them as we go.

Of course, we also do our best to keep track of modern boxing as well, particularly the big title fights, and we sprinkle in those matches as well as 'bonus episodes' --- and occasionally include our ruminations on the state of boxing in general as we go.

We call our podcast the Rounds of CineMcCollough. By the time we make it through all 80 Ring Magazine Rounds of the Year, we will have acquired one or two more and will review those as well. From there on, the sky's the limit.

You know you've been wanting a boxing podcast to listen to - give us a try, pick an episode, watch the fight and score it, then listen and compare your results to ours!