by Fox Doucette Earlier this week, via Twitter, boxing “writer” (and I use the term loosely, the same way I would call a toddler transcribing his ABCs a “writer”) Gabe Montoya of Max Boxing called out Mark Ortega, who unlike Montoya can actually string words together into sentences that people whose brains are not comprised entirely of tau proteins would want to read. He … [Read more...]
Lessons On Badassery For Boxing Writers: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette The best lessons in life are learned by example. Show someone a strong role model, who demonstrates virtues to which we all can aspire, and somewhere in the process is found a blueprint for living a completely different walk of life. We watch athletes in general and boxers in particular rise at five in the morning to get out and run five miles, spar six rounds … [Read more...]
Shill Pieces and Google News: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette You may have noticed this site devoting a fair bit of time to the saga of Vanes Martirosyan last week, keeping up on his illusory fight with Ryan Davis that turned out to be a mirage. Your columnist reported the news as it broke, playing at being a journalist and not just that blowhard who makes dick jokes and broadens the thesaurus in his repeated efforts to … [Read more...]
Manny Pacquiao Drinks Virgin Blood to Augment Strength? Magno’s Monday Rant
I can't fight it anymore. I'm giving in to the peer pressure of the boxing biz. Welcome to my new, revamped identity-- Scoop Magno! I was a fool for thinking that anybody actually wanted to read the truth about stuff. Obviously, it's just better to makes shit up along the way while wearing my agendas like a 20 lb. overcoat. Critical thinking be damned! Being a boxing … [Read more...]
These Things Are Good; Magno’s Monday Rant
Not too long ago an especially pompous member of the boxing media establishment saw fit to attack me in his deadly Twitter Account of Doom. Despite this pant-load's feeling that he is some sort of "serious" writer, the best he could do was say that I seemed to hate the sport and everyone in it. As usual, this free buffet-diving dip-shit missed the point. I love the sport, … [Read more...]