His Excellency Turki Alalshikh, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA), announced at today’s Press Conference (Sunday) the full details of Riyadh Season 2025, which is set to begin Friday October 10 ...... continue reading

Thursday's, 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 ...... continue reading

Vasiliy Lomachenko announced his retirement late last week and, for me, the only takeaway from that news was that most people’s takes on the guy and his legacy really suck. ...... 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 Top Rank, ...... continue reading

Here’s a little bit of this and that from what got my attention in the boxing world this last week or so: -- Well, so much for Caleb Plant vs. Jermall Charlo...or maybe not (more on that in a bit). ...... continue reading

This Thursday, like every Thursday, I ask you to pull up a seat alongside my bulging, bulbous sack and watch me shoot a load of gooey, salty truth right into the faces of boxing’s purveyors of ignorance. This week, we have questions/comments ...... continue reading

What can I say about a boxing scene that is utterly uninteresting? Better yet, what can I write about when there’s, almost literally, nothing worth writing about? I mean, I could go off-- again-- on the Saudis’ boxing takeover and ...... continue reading

Every Thursday, right here at FightHype, I take time out of my busy schedule of producing hateful content to address readers’ questions and comments regarding the sport we all love (and sometimes love to hate). This week: Devin Haney, Saul ...... continue reading

Remember back in 2017 when boxing “purists” went apoplectic with rage and tinkled their collective panties when a retired Floyd Mayweather fought UFC star Conor McGregor in a “real” sanctioned boxing match? ...... continue reading

Hall of Fame legend Manny Pacquiao has arrived in Los Angeles, California to kick off training camp for his highly-anticipated return to the ring. The former 8-division world champion is scheduled to face WBC ...... 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 Turki tales, the Pacquiao comeback, the WBC, ...... continue reading

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