Bust out the laborious medicines and the women of unwell reputation, I’m on trip.
For one wonderful week, I cease studying the boxing media’s press releases, er, journalism and unplug from the tedium of watching dimwits and racists on social media discuss issues they, actually, don’t know something about.
However boxing by no means, ever actually leaves my thoughts. So, as I’m ready for this newest batch of medication to kick in, listed below are some random ideas concerning the remainder of this boxing yr.
Hey, did you occur to listen to that Showtime Boxing is being killed off after the tip of this yr? You might need heard just a few temporary mentions of this right here and there on social media over the past a number of days.
For us followers and shoppers, the information ought to impression us little or no. The subsequent thought after “Showtime Boxing is completed” must be “Okay, which channel will we’ve got to show to in 2024?”
For a choose few unhappy sacks, although, the demise of Showtime Boxing introduced on a wave of orgasmic pleasure. The losers with their burning case of AHDS (Al Haymon Derangement Syndrome), participating in a race/tradition struggle in opposition to all issues PBC, led by race-antagonizing boxing media slugs who’ve been on extra promoter payrolls than the Tecate ladies, felt vindicated by the information. “Hurray for issues we actually don’t find out about, taking place for causes we don’t actually know!”
The Haymon-in-boxing/PBC years have been a visit, although. Actually, it’s been like one gigantic sociological experiment. Take a black businessman who brings freeman enterprise philosophy to a sport constructed on indentured servitude, which additionally simply occurs to be one of many final bastions of overtly racist/classist thought within the sporting world, and let’s see what occurs!
A few of the serial PBC/Haymon critics have been disturbingly obsessive about the demise of the evilness they imagined. I’m virtually joyful the PBC-aligned Showtime Boxing DID get axed. That gentle victory of their minds could have stored them from snapping and mutilating a neighbor’s pet or beating up their mother (who most of them nonetheless dwell with).
I don’t even attempt to have interaction with these folks anymore. Dumb + Loopy + Hateful makes for skulls too thick to penetrate.
Talking of penetration, kudos to Victor Conte e-newsletter author Steve Kim for type of spearheading this sociological flip in boxing, injecting race and tradition warfare, together with weirdo proper wing politics, into the game and endlessly muddying the waters of public discourse. Now, thanks in nice half to his landmark innovation in girlish hating and his capability to trick hateful dimwits into driving alongside on the hate wagon, we obtained human skid marks from each side of the fence going at it– in an equal and reverse silly response dynamic– with precise boxing speak taking a again seat to us vs. them bickering. What a legacy!
– I don’t care what number of “actual” boxing followers and “purists” get mad at me for saying this, however I hope Francis Ngannou manages to land one thing large and out of the blue on October 28 to drop and cease Tyson Fury. I don’t want Fury any lasting bodily hurt, I simply need him to lose. As a result of, solely via a mega-humbling loss, will the Tyson Fury Present finish and we will all regain some sanity in the case of the pure movement of the heavyweight division. I do know we’re SUPPOSED to be getting the Fury-Usyk unification after this coming sideshow with Ngannou, however I’ll imagine that after I see it. Fury must get again right down to earth and again to precise boxing. The one method for that to occur, IMO, is through excruciating embarrassment.
– Shakur Stevenson has not been shy about saying that he’ll discover free company to the fullest extent when his contract is up with Prime Rank subsequent yr. He’d be loopy to not. I’m simply questioning if all these folks parroting Prime Rank “most feared man” and “better of the very best” speaking factors will nonetheless be doing that when he’s on the open market, exploring offers with Prime Rank enterprise rivals. I’m guessing not.
– Prime Rank bossman Bob Arum is an absolute genius in the case of interesting to the hearts and minds of boxing media and fuddy-duddy battle followers. The person has been pulling the identical hustles and cons for 50 years and these folks fall for them over and over. Essentially the most feared man…The “the NEXT battle goes to be the one you’ve been clamoring for” bait and swap…The “the opposite man is the one avoiding the battle with my man” redirection…The “trample on my fighter’s repute and perhaps get him beat as his contract expires as a result of it doesn’t seem that he’ll re-sign” exit plan. Arum’s Best Hits by no means get previous to sure individuals who, by the best way, usually prefer to boast about how nice they’re at being “on to” the hustles and cons of different boxing folks.
I’m not “taking sides” when saying this, by the best way. All boxing bossmen have their hustles and cons in the case of doing enterprise and hyping fights. It’s simply that solely a few of these folks get referred to as out for them, whereas others get the free go.
– Are the David Benavidez-Demetrius Andrade, Devin Haney-Regis Prograis, Keith Thurman-Eimantas Stanionis/Erislandy Lara-Danny Garcia pay-per-view reveals price their pay-per-view value? My reply is at all times the identical with “is that this present price it” questions– they’re well worth the value if you wish to pay the value.
There are factors to be made when folks say that erecting paywalls round fights caps the game’s development potential. However, realistically, in the case of boxing’s development potential, that ship sailed a very long time in the past, in all probability from the primary second guys like Arum took straightforward cash to place all their reveals behind premium cable paywalls.
I do keep in mind, although, the identical followers and media who now bemoan “all the things being on pay-per-view” additionally mocking a sure boxing firm after they tried placing fights on free TV..
Properly, that’s it for now. Gotta get again to the debauchery. See y’all subsequent week…if I survive.
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