“Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.” – Floyd Mayweather Jr. NEW YORK CITY – Aside from his power and durability, Conor McGregor can’t convince oddsmakers that he has what it takes to upset Floyd Mayweather Jr. Like Angel Manfredy in 1998, oddsmakers predict that McGregor (21-3, 18 KOs) will be swallowed whole by Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26 KOs) when they clash at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on August 26. Manfredy, hard-hitting like McGregor, was highly-touted when he mauled...

“Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.” — Sugar Ray Leonard NEW YORK CITY — I reviewed the ninth round when Floyd Mayweather Jr. assaulted Conor McGregor like a truncheon-toting dispersal cop swarming over a hapless rallyist several times on Youtube, and found a glaring element. McGregor, 29, survived the violence but Mayweather, 40, finally bundled him out in the 10th stanza with double left...

“I’m the man in the box. Buried in my shit. Won’t you come and save me, save me?” – Alice In Chains NEW YORK CITY – Celebrity cop Jovie “The Excited” Espenido, after all, won’t be a permanent chief of the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO). Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa has confirmed he designated the controversial police chief inspector only as officer-in-charge because he is two ranks lower than what is required by law for a highly urbanized...

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” – Plato NEW YORK CITY – We are now tempted to think that one of the biggest mistakes committed by the Ilonggos was they did not elect businessman and journalist Rommel Ynion when he wanted to serve as city councilor in 2016. If Ynion, a vocal and frank person, were member of the city council when “the most shabulized city” furor erupted, would he just collect his salary and fart...

“Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.” – Howard Mumford Jones NEW YORK CITY – What I can see in the next chapter of the “most shabulized city” saga is embattled Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog walking ten feet tall and vindicated. The events that will unfold—or has already unfolded—in the next days and weeks will prove that God is not sleeping and will never abandon the Ilonggos who have been equally tormented by the...