- Is The Executioner finally D.O.A.? Bernard Hopkins is 49 years old
and was just dominated for the first time in his career, falling in a unanimous
decision to Sergey Kovalev Saturday in their light heavyweight title
unification bout at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. The fight was never close
and for the first time, the oldest man to hold a major championship belt looked
mortal. It was ironic because Hopkins has recently taken to calling himself The
Alien and suggesting that he’s from another world. Instead, his immortal nature
was shattered when Kovalev won all 12 rounds on all three judges' cards and
Hopkins, who spent a large chunk of his young adult life behind bars, was never
in the fight. The result left many questioning whether Hopkins would lace up
the gloves again even after a post-bout interview in which promoter Oscar De La
Hoya said he believed Hopkins would fight again. Ever the businessman, De La
Hoya raised the possibility of a catch-weight bout with middleweight champion
Gennady Golovkin. Yet when he was pressed on the subject afterward, Hopkins
didn’t directly answer the question. "Asking me if I'm going to fight
again right now is like asking a woman who just went through a nine-hour labor
if she wants to have another baby," Hopkins said with a wry smile on his
face. De La Hoya and Hopkins are business partners in Golden Boy Promotions and
close friends, so maybe the promoter knows of what he speaks. "It's up to
him and he has to think about it and decide what he wants to do," De La
Hoya said. "But I think the kind of guy he is, he's going to want to fight
again. And we could still do that Triple-G fight, absolutely." Of
course you could, Oscar, because the dollar signs drive all………
- The defenders of fragile psyches and chubby people demanding
that the world not notice they could stand to lose a few pounds are claiming
victory once more. The latest row ‘twixt the chubby coddlers and the real world
came, where else, on the battleground for body image that is Victoria’s Secret.
You know, the brand that makes its name and its dollars on the backs, tightly
toned asses, flat stomachs and lifted/separated racks of supermodels who walk
the runways at fashion shows clad in diamond-encrusted undergarments while
wearing stilettos and nary a blemish on their bodies. With that in mind, of
course the ladies out there who have much more, um, padding on their physiques were
bound to take offense when Victoria’s Secret hatched new ad campaign based on
the slogan “The Perfect Body.” The bigger sticking point for the campaign
amongst its haters seemed to be the accompanying image, which featured 10
smoking hot and very thin modes clad in bras and panties.
That packaage drew the ire of those who started an online petition at
Change.org and demanded that something be done, as long as that something
wasn’t them eating less calories, exercising more and shedding their excess
weight. Sadly, the terrorists have won. Victoria's Secret has reportedly
dropped the “Perfect Body” slogan in favor of a new one, "A Body for Every
Body." Below the slogan are the words, "Perfect Fit. Perfect Comfort.
Perfectly Soft." The perfect theme also includes the phrase "perfect
shape," although it's referring to a push-up bra instead of perfection in
the form of the wearer. In response to the changes, the Change.org petition
kook posted a message reading, "This is amazing news!" Not really,
y’all. There still won't be any size-16 models strutting down the runway at the
next Vickie’s Secret show…….
- The Irish like to drink. No one is disputing that fact,
not with Jameson and Guinness being the two foundational blocks in the
infrastructure of Dublin. Still, it probably isn't fair to pigeonhole Irishmen
to the point that they’re being refused jobs on an international level due to
their hard-drinking ways. That’s the claim being made by Katie Mulrennan, who showed all sorts of kahones by not only
applying for a job on Craigslist, but applying for one that required her to
cross multiple national borders and obtain a work visa in the process. Mulrennan,
a teacher, applied for a teaching job in South Korea. That she didn’t get the
gig isn't the most stunning development, even though she has taught English in
Barcelona, Oxford, Abu Dhabi and South Korea. Her wealth of experience doing
the very job for which she was applying could have been matched by other
applicants. What she apparently could not overcome was the “alcoholism nature”
of her people, which is what the employer cited in passing her over. "Usually
when you apply for a job and they don't want you, they don't send a
reply," Mulrennan said. "But this reply was a first. When I got the
e-mail, it was so abrupt and short. I actually laughed when I read it
initially." The email coldly informed Mulrennan that, "I am sorry to
inform you that my client does not hire Irish people due to the alcoholism
nature of your kind." Alrighty then. She has since found a new job, but
more importantly, she has learned a valuable lesson about what it takes to
succeed in the high-pressure world of international education………
- Nicki Minaj makes some sh*tty music, but is she genocidal dictator-level
bad? Such is the question being asked, in a form, based on her recent lyric
video for hew new track “Only.”
The clip, which helps introduce fans to a gawd-awful song that should be buried
in a bunker like the one Adolf Hiter died in and the one from which Saddam
Hussein was yanked, sees Minaj, Drake, Lil Wayne and Chris Brown (all in
cartoon form) recast as Nazi-esque officers, with Minaj herself compared to
Hitler. It does seem like a bit of a reach and not simply because Hitler had
way more musical talent. No, critics have complained that making light of
Hitler and the Holocaust in any way is disrespectful to, you know, the 6
million Jews who were murdered by Hitler’s regime. Neither Minaj nor the
video's director Jeff Osborne have addressed the issue publicly, but they don’t
need to. They’re getting exactly what they want and nothing they say is going
to win over those they’ve intentionally offended, so why bother? Osborne has retweeted
some of the angry responses he has receiver over the video, which features guest
spots from Drake, Lil Wayne and Chris Brown. “Only” will appear on Minaj’s
unimaginatively titled new album “The Pinkprint,” an unabashed rip-of Jay Z’s
numerous “Blueprint” releases………
