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...]
Pacland and its pay-to-play culture
Future hall of famer Manny Pacquiao is truly worthy of his eventual place in Canastota. His accomplishments in the ring prior to his lightning-fast rise up from junior lightweight all the way up to junior middleweight – well, almost all the way up to junior middleweight – were probably enough to save his place in the hall. It is his fights dating back to his nine-round … [Read more...]
I Come Not To Bury Manny Pacquiao… Magno’s Monday Rant
I come not to bury Manny Pacquiao, but to honor boxing. On Saturday night and all through Sunday, there were a lot of boxing fans on social media sites and on boxing forums counting Juan Manuel Marquez's perfectly-timed fight-ending overhand right hand as a blow for "real" boxing. For them, the face-first, unconscious Manny Pacquiao symbolized a return to sanity. Seems … [Read more...]
Last Night’s Winner: Manny Pacquiao Haters
by Fox Doucette Your columnist has, more than once, been accused of being a “Pacquiao hater”. I've also been accused of various gay sex acts with Floyd Mayweather, all of them involving me in the submissive position. While professionalism is called for when I'm writing pieces of journalism like “The Only Preview You Need” (and not for nothing does the editor of this fine … [Read more...]
OK, Arum’s to Blame and I Want Some Damn Apologies; Magno’s Monday Rant
Believe me, I'm not one to shy away from a good fight and I have the virtual hides of many douche bag boxing shills and "mean" bloggers hanging from the walls of my cement bunker in Central Mexico to prove it. There's a reason these fakes and phonies have blocked me from their precious social media sites-- I have zero tolerance for bull shit. Period. However much of a … [Read more...]