This won't take a minute. Because tomes have already been written and endless terabytes of audio and video exhausted in the Cannonball Run-style sprint to offer THE OPINION about Saturday's Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor Show of Shite, the less I pile onto the steaming heap the better. Still, there's this: It's not a fight. Tonight's main... Continue Reading →
The boxing-as-professional wrestling trope is a go-to move for far too many modern fight writers, but I understand the easy connection -- especially in the case of an orchestration like Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s under-cover-of-darkness tweet in the wee hours of Friday morning. Mayweather's coy original tweet -- "Alex Ariza stretching the Champ before his 3... Continue Reading →
I'm not ready for this. Seriously, I have stuff to do. I just finished the dishes, there's yardwork that needs tending to, and I don't have nearly enough caffeine in me yet. I'd like to sit down to watch the rest of OKC-Indiana and maybe even catch the tail end of the Masters if possible, but... Continue Reading →
It wasn't Moses descending from Mount Sinai with stone tablets in hand, but on Monday boxing fans received some big news: For his next opponent, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has chosen Marcos Maidana over Amir Khan. The fight is scheduled for May 3, and odds are that it'll go down in Las Vegas, but that's about... Continue Reading →
