By Alphonso Costello™ Want to know what it feels like to break a story? Write on-the-sly press releases masked as accommodating puff pieces? Uncover facts that are easily attainable anywhere on the internet? Then you came to the right place. Follow my guide on How to Become An Investigative Boxing Reporter and you will become a star boxing journalist in no time. TOOLS … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune Wants You! Magno’s Monday Rant
Magno's Monday Rant is back from the dead and re-energized for another run at boxing's creeps, liars, and unrepentant douche bags. I'd like to give a special thanks to assistant editor Tim Harrison for the awesome job he did while I was on vacation. After being out of the loop for a couple of weeks, the realities of the sport and its media always smack me hard in the face … [Read more...]
Writing For Love of the Craft: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette I had to take the time to get up on the soapbox today, and in a nice bit of irony, it is not because a boxing writer pissed me off but because one I respected made me look inward at what is perhaps a philosophical difference. In this week's excellent Monday Rant, our esteemed Fearless Leader Paul Magno took on the gladhanding, self-absorbed, talentless “boxing … [Read more...]
A New Year’s Kind of F*ck You; Magno’s Monday Rant
Unlike a lot of people who start writing about boxing, I was not a boxing trivia nerd having impure thoughts over crusty, old Ring Magazines and black and white newsreels of Jack Dempsey. I was a kid, working in the gyms. My appreciation for the sport came from watching the guys come in, day after day, and bust their asses to learn the art of prizefighting. There's … [Read more...]
The End of Examiner.com’s Stranglehold on Stupidity? Magno’s Monday Rant
Has the end come for Examiner.com's stranglehold on content farm journalism and professional pandering? In a recent article by The Boxing Tribune's Tim Harrison, it was revealed that several writers engaged in pay-to-play practices with the mega-powerful and mega-visited Pacland news aggregator (now located at PinoyGreats.com), handing over a percentage of their earnings to … [Read more...]