Boxing asks us to forgive a lot. But you do get to draw the line somewhere, though. Personally, I’ve been nudged past my comfort zone a few times over the course of about 50 years as a fan/participant/writer. At this moment, I draw ...... continue reading

It’s Thursday and here we are with another heaping, healthy load of salty truth coming from the depths of my bulging sack. This week, we have comments/questions regarding Naoya Inoue, Canelo Alvarez, and Friday’s Times Square fails. ...... continue reading

From the mess made of a big Saudi-sponsored boxing weekend, it’s tempting to say that Saudi sportswashing figurehead and Ring Magazine owner Turki Alalshikh doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing. But, maybe, he DOES know what ...... continue reading

Every week here at FightHype, I pull out my gigantic, bulbous, bulging sack and give truth-minded boxing fans a gander. This week, I shoot ropes of truth all over comments/questions regarding Canelo, Eubank-Benn 2, and the Saudi NYC card. ...... continue reading

Welcome to another edition of Magno’s Bulging Mail Sack, a tradition here at FightHype that routinely rattles cages, rocks boats, and way too often hurts tough guys’ feelings. This week, we have comments/questions regarding Eubank-Benn ...... continue reading

Everyone who regularly reads this column knows my take on the current state of boxing media. I mean, really, just look at the supposed news coverage of events with affiliate links built into the story, leading to sales pages for those same events. ...... continue reading

Welcome to a special Easter edition of Magno’s Bulging Mail Sack. With painted huevos, Peeps residue on my goatee, and little fluffy bunnies on my mind, let’s dig into my bulging sack. This week, we have comments and questions regarding ...... continue reading

What if the same people designated to protect a sport and its athletes were also the ones most eager to sell it out to the highest bidder? Welcome to the world of boxing. Anyone with even remedial knowledge of boxing history knows that our ...... continue reading

Every Thursday here at FightHype, we prove that there’s still a place for a good, old-fashioned written word money shot from the depths of my bulbous, bulging sack. So, get ready for some of that infamous Magno-rific gooey, salty, sometimes ...... continue reading

Hello friends, readers, and undercover haters. We’re going scattershot again this week because there’s just not that much going on that deserves a full column’s attention. So, let’s go. ...... continue reading

In this corner of the Universo Pugilistico, it's all about my sack-- my bulging, bulbous, aching sack-- and the gooey, salty truth contained within. So...sit back, close your eyes, pull back your hair, and get ready for this week's money ...... continue reading

Greetings from my lovely vacation digs for this special edition of boxing’s most NSFW boxing column, the one that makes little media piglings cry “Fighthype, why are you giving him a platform?” into social media. ...... continue reading

In this corner of the Universo Pugilistico is my bulging, bulbous, aching sack and the gooey, salty truth contained within. So...sit back, close your eyes, pull back your hair, and get ready for this week's money shot of wisdom. This week we ...... continue reading

According to paid-for, compromised media critics and weirdo, obsessed culture-warrin’ fans, Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) has been going out of business since, well, pretty much since they began the business. Seriously. ...... continue reading

Every week here at FightHype, we make some space for a good, old-fashioned written word money shot from the depths of my bulbous, bulging (mail) sack. So, get ready for some of that infamous Magno-rific gooey, salty, sometimes NSFW truth. This week, ...... continue reading

Let me just preface this by saying that boxing’s sanctioning bodies are a bunch of grimy, loose change-sucking grifters and that I would not shed a single tear if they were locked inside a garbage barge, sent into international waters, and ...... continue reading

Welcome to another Thursday here at Fight Hype, AKA La Résistance, one of the few holdouts in a dystopian boxing world where everyone’s grasping at Saudi Turki bucks and willing to give away everything to get them. Well, all I’m ...... continue reading

Well, this played out exactly as I’ve been saying it would for more than a year now. Turki Alalshikh has made his move to take over boxing, using Dana White and the TKO group as day-to-day henchman for the takeover. On Wednesday, it was ...... continue reading

Hello boxing fans and dedicated haters. Here’s another week’s worth of my bulbous sack, bulging with gooey, salty truth, in your face. Enjoy. This week, we have comments/questions regarding the Tank Davis-Lamont Roach debacle and a ...... continue reading

Gervonta “Tank” Davis should be the former WBA lightweight champ right now. But, as we’ve seen for years and decades in boxing, power and influence matter. And, perhaps just as important, there is an overwhelming bias that ...... continue reading

Every Thursday here at FightHype, I pull out my gigantic, bulbous, bulging sack and give truth-minded boxing fans a gander. This week, I shoot my ropes of truth all over comments/questions regarding Bivol-Beterbiev, Canelo and the Saudis, and Tank ...... continue reading

Well, wow...I just somehow managed to regain my composure after sitting through the GREATEST BOXING CARD in the history of all humanity-- and I know it was the GREATEST BOXING CARD in the history of all humanity because the DAZN broadcast crew and ...... continue reading

Welcome boxing fans to one of the very last boxing assets not packed up and shipped out to the Saudis for a handful of Turki bucks and a Richard Mille watch. This week, we combat boxing ignorance and address comments/questions regarding Canelo with ...... continue reading

In last week’s Notes from the Boxing Underground, I kind of hyper-focused on the blood orgy of misinformation surrounding the Turki Alalshikh/Canelo Alvarez/Ring Magazine situation and the lying liars who intentionally lied to us about it all. ...... continue reading

In honor of February 14th, I’m gonna paint some swear words on tiny candy hearts, cram them into a sack of heart-shaped Peeps, with an “IOU One Pearl Necklace” coupon, and slam the whole thing into the sweaty face of boxing ...... continue reading

When the front man for a journalist-killing monarchy bought Ring Magazine back in November, you just knew that we weren’t in for any Woodward and Bernstein-level journalism. But who could’ve imagined it would be this bad, this OPENLY and ...... continue reading

Every Thursday here at FightHype, boxing fans gather around my bulbous, bulging sack in anticipation of an Ol’ Faithful money shot of gooey, salty truth. This Thursday is no different. So, put your goggles on and cinch up your plastic poncho, ...... continue reading

If there’s anyone out there still not sold on David Benavidez and his status as a legitimate modern day boxing star, I’d like for them to take a walk to the nearest bathroom, stick their head in the toilet, and flush repeatedly. ...... continue reading

Thursdays, in this corner of the Universo Pugilistico, are all about my sack-- my bulging, bulbous, aching sack-- and the gooey, salty truth contained within. So...sit back, close your eyes, pull back your hair, and get ready for this week's ...... continue reading

Eddie Hearn is a lot of things, but he’s now, apparently, a shoe-shine boy? Hearn, via interview with Sean Zittel, speaking of his gleeful subservience to Saudi boxing takeover figurehead, Turki Alalshikh: “I have a big ego, ...... continue reading

Every Thursday, FightHype makes some space among its video content to host boxing’s most NSFW mail bag column-- Mine. In this week’s Sack, I address comments/questions regarding Garcia-Haney 2, The Garcia-Haney double-header, and ...... continue reading

Well, this was like finding a crisp twenty dollar bill on my front porch after an editor’s check gets held up in “processing” for the second straight week. The newly re-launched, “new era,” Saudi-fueled, Turki-run ...... continue reading

Hello boxing fans and dedicated haters. Here’s another week’s worth of my bulbous sack, bulging with gooey, salty truth, in your face. Enjoy. This week, we have comments/questions regarding Canelo-Crawford, Garcia-Haney 2, and the plight ...... continue reading

So...another week without boxing...Let’s do our best to talk about something at least marginally boxing-related, then. A little while back, I tried to get together whatever’s left of independent media in boxing and unify to create a ...... continue reading

Every Thursday here at FightHype, I pull out my gigantic, bulbous, bulging sack and give truth-minded boxing fans a gander. This week, I shoot ropes of truth all over comments/questions regarding Keyshawn Davis, Boxing’s dead zone, and the ...... continue reading

Welcome to day 204 of Saudi Arabia saving boxing by smothering the life out of the American boxing scene. If it feels like it’s been ages since we had a quality high-end domestic show in the States, that’s because it HAS been ages. ...... continue reading

A new year brings a new dedication to spilling my seeds of wisdom all over the flinching face of boxing ignorance. So, let’s unleash the beast that is my bulging, bulbous sack and deliver the first money shot of 2025. This week, we have ...... continue reading

As I begin to write this, I honestly have no idea if this is a swan song farewell to boxing or a call to arms. To be honest, covering boxing has become a tedious chore. Specifically, I’m referring to everything around the actual ...... continue reading

Santa Magno is letting out a hearty “Ho Ho Ho” in this special Christmas edition of the Bulging Mail Sack. And, yes, he IS referring to the staff of the new Saudi era Ring Magazine. Get it? “Ho Ho Ho” as in, ...... continue reading

Usyk-Fury 2 was a decent fight. It was engaging, but not thrilling. It was a competent contest between two very good fighters where the better man (Usyk) won via three fair judges’ scorecards that tallied a 116-112 score apiece.  ...... continue reading