Howdy and welcome to another edition of Magno's Monday Rant, the weekly boxing column that longs for the day when sports writers could openly talk about their drinking and womanizing... It takes a special breed of human being to write, full-time, about boxing. I hate to burst any bubbles, but there's virtually no money to be made as a boxing scribe. Even at the major boxing … [Read more...]
Paul Magno’s Monday Rant: The Pacquiao Mailbag Edition
Since I'm saving my thoughts on Bradley-Alexander for another piece (to be posted later) and there hasn't been much else going on, I've decided to put my own spin on one of the easiest, most tired ways of filling some cyber space....A Mailbag! But, not just any mailbag! Never let it be said that The Boxing Tribune's Editor in Chief isn't creative enough to at least put a … [Read more...]
Paul Magno’s Monday Rant
Ok...Bears lost...So, I'm nice and pissed. Here's the Monday Rant: ______________________________________ Rant #1 I don't mind these smaller pay-per-views and I'm not going to be harping on the fact that the Holyfield-Williams show sucked when, really, we all knew that it was going to suck. It's like going to White Castle and then complaining about the bitter, onion-fueled … [Read more...]
Paul Magno’s Monday Rant
Great weekend of fight action, the kind of stuff we'd get every week if fans really insisted on it. Unfortunately, too many of us are too willing to accept what the promoters hurl at us. Anyway, let's get down to business: Rant #1: Showtime should start making a back-up plan right now. My educated guess is that there's very little chance of Arthur Abraham continuing on in … [Read more...]
Paul Magno’s Monday Rant
Howdy Folks...Let's just get right into it, okay? Rant #1: Thank God we had a nice, definitive win on Saturday. Sergio Martinez and Paul Williams are both credits to the sport and deserve bigger followings than what they get. Hopefully, with the HBO Free Preview Weekend and the replay of Pacquiao-Margarito, a massive audience got exposed to one of the sport's classiest … [Read more...]