If you ever try pissing into the wind, you'll likely end up with little more than a face full of piss. The Spring of 2012 was characterized by a focus on performance enhancing drugs (PEDS) and their use in boxing. Supported by the emergence of the upstart Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA), fighters were suddenly feeling compelled to submit to testing above and beyond the … [Read more...]
The Truth? Boxing Can’t Handle the Truth! Magno’s Monday Rant
We could save a lot of time and energy if we just dropped the whole idea of PEDs testing and went back to assuming everyone was juiced up. We could even go back to pretending that the drug testing currently in place isn't there just to trap a few low-end users as a token gesture of pretend due diligence. Because, really, as things are shaping up now, this new wave of volunteer … [Read more...]
The Boxing Slave Trade: Prizefighting Glory or Indentured Servitude?
I've long asserted that the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather saga is not about either fighter fearing or ducking the other. Rather, the mega-bout isn't happening because Bob Arum is deathly afraid of Pacquiao, or any of his fighters for that matter, catching a glimpse at how Mayweather adviser, Al Haymon, handles his clients. You see, Haymon may represent a lot of fighters, … [Read more...]
In Defense of Promoters and Sanctioning Bodies; Magno’s Monday Rant
Ask most fans about the villains of the sport and the list will likely be filled with the names of promoters and sleazy heads of sanctioning bodies. And, yeah, on the Magno scale of douchebaggery, guys who lie for a living and have mastered the art of dirty pool get a very high ranking indeed. But, really, how can so much blame be heaped on people we already know to be liars … [Read more...]
The Boxing Death March Goes On; Magno’s Monday Rant
I've been called a lot of things-- from bald fuck-head to cannibal necrophiliac-- but one thing you can't call me is inconsistent. All of my criticisms and attacks on the boxing world as a freelance professional bomb-throwing iconoclast come down to one central theme-- Boxing's slow suicide and the greed, arrogance, and stupidity that are bringing it about. If the art of two … [Read more...]