by Christopher Mooney Wladimir Klitschko is a pound-for-pound top 10 boxer. Or, if you’re a fan of Jeopardy, “sentences about boxing rankings, that you thought you’d never utter in your own lifetime?” The big Russian sneaked into the fabled list this weekend - which probably says more for the lack of bankable superstar fighters in the sport at the minute (lots of … [Read more...]
Bleacher-ship: The censorship of fan writing
by Christopher Mooney You join an amateur fan site. You spend 30 minutes coming up with something to say. You post it. People read it. People comment. Pretty simple right? Not any more. The eternally annoying, Pacland boxing page, Bleacherreport.com, has brought in a new feature, to ensure that they exert direct control over the type of writers that post. You now … [Read more...]
Digging Through the Muck of the Pacquiao-Mayweather Fiasco
by Christopher Mooney Boxing often descends into farce. Everyone involved in the sport of boxing has an ego equal to, or greater than, Terrell Owens. It’s just a fact of life. It’s a combustible sport. Look at someone the wrong way and the deal is off. So you have to dig pretty deep, to make any sense of the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao negotiations. But this I have tried … [Read more...]