by Tim Harrison By now you’ve most likely read reports of the halftime face-to-face meeting between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather at Tuesday night’s Miami Heat game against the Milwaukee Bucks. Reports clogged up news feeds and message boards, some might say the news “broke the internet”. Pacquiao and Mayweather sat on opposite sides of the court, and according to … [Read more...]
Mayweather, Pacquiao Meet Face to Face for First Time
In a moment that would breathe life into the slowly dying possibility of a May 2 mega-fight, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao met face to face at a Miami Heat game Tuesday evening and had a brief conversation at halftime. What's known definitively about this meeting is that Mayweather approached Pacquiao (and Pacquiao manager Michael Koncz) to initiate the conversation … [Read more...]
The Great Pacquiao Swindle; Magno’s Monday Rant
It was fight week for Manny Pacquiao-Chris Algieri, November 2014, when Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum began telling the world about secret Mayweather-Pacquiao negotiations taking place. Was the claim true or merely a ploy to create some buzz and a glossy coat for a Macau-based fight that was probably the greatest paper mismatch ever hustled to fans via pay-per-view? After … [Read more...]
The Only Real Mayweather-Pacquiao Article; Magno’s Monday Rant
At this point, I'd almost prefer that Mayweather and Pacquiao not fight and that the massive failure in putting together what should've been a slam dunk mega-event stand as a perpetual reminder of just how hopelessly inept the boxing media truly is. You can blame Arum or Manny or Floyd or Al Haymon if you like. The reality is that someone at some point (or, more likely, … [Read more...]
Free Manny Pacquiao!:The Sunday Brunch
Hola familia y amigos, welcome to another star-spangled, AR-15 shootin' edition of USA's most four-wheeling, most meat-eating weekly proper pugilistic paper, The Sunday Brunch - We are the Rick Grimes of boxing columns. This week we're asking the big questions, we want to know who, exactly is to blame for "the fight" not happening despite posturing from both sides. We've combed … [Read more...]