RYAN GARCIA, THE SAUDIS, HAPPY BOXING MEMORIES || FIGHTHYPE.COM

Welcome to a particular Thanksgiving version of Magno’s Bulging Mail Sack the place boxing’s dangerous guys are pressured to gobble, gobble on the gooey, salty, cranberry-infused fact coming straight from my bloated sack of giblets. This week we now have feedback/questions relating to Ryan Garcia’s exhibition, boxing’s transfer to Saudi Arabia, and my private completely happy boxing moments. 

Movin’ to Saudi Arabia

What’s good P Magazine? 

Comfortable Thanksgiving brotha to you and your loved ones. It appears that evidently huge fights are steadily transferring to Saudi Arabia and fewer in every single place else. Plenty of followers appear okay with this so long as we get as they put it “we get good fights”. What are you your ideas? 

– Rob

Hey Rob.

They’re SAYING they’re okay with it. Their actions, although, don’t present their happiness with “getting good fights” underneath these phrases and circumstances. Pay-per-view gross sales for these Saudi exhibits have been weak. Boxing web site site visitors has been dropping immensely, indicating a shrinking quantity of curiosity. Even social media trending numbers are down. 

The reality of the matter is that boxing followers need good fights, however in addition they need their fights at a handy time of the day, in an thrilling surroundings, and on exhibits which are really partaking. In addition they need to have the ability to exit and see a giant combat in particular person often. The Saudis aren’t delivering any of that. Boxing followers eat their product on a way more private stage than different sports activities followers do. They’ve a private connections with the fighters and the matchups. The game being pulled from the fan base is taking the lifeblood from the American boxing scene and all information is exhibiting that, even when the bought-off press and a few vocal followers are telling the precise reverse story.

I don’t see anyone ecstatic about tuning right into a present at 11 am on a Saturday, sitting via hours of filler across the matches, after which seeing the fights in a sterile, lifeless area that has about as a lot power as a school Humanities 101 lecture corridor. Golden Boy’s current Latino Night time card, for instance, would’ve been rocking an area exhausting in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. In Saudi Arabia, it got here off as a pandemic present with cardboard cutouts within the crowd. That form of stuff DOES matter to followers, even when they don’t vocalize it (and even consciously understand it). The shortage of buzz for that usually good card ought to’ve been eye-opening with regards to the perils of eradicating fan power from a sport that’s basically constructed ON fan power. 

In an 8-month span between the Tank Davis/David Benavidez twin invoice this previous June and the Benavidez-Morrell card in February, the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson card will go down as the one main boxing occasion on US soil by an American promoter. That form of stagnation is pure demise. It’s a sluggish necrosis in boxing’s limbs, headed in the direction of its trunk. 

What’s misplaced on this orgy of immediate Saudi boxing gratification is the truth that that is very a lot a takeover of the game for the Saudis’ personal functions. It’s a transfer to personal boxing and make it their very own private sport for exhibition in their very own land. These high-profile fights being made and the cash dished out to boxing business individuals are simply the lures to attract us to the hooks. I’ve been making my case on this difficulty for awhile now, and just about getting nowhere. However folks can learn my case towards a Saudi-run boxing on this previous Monday’s Notes from the Boxing Underground column proper right here at FightHype.

Ryan Garcia, The Comeback Earlier than The Comeback

Hey Magno.

I simply noticed the place Ryan Garcia is returning to the ring in an exhibition in Japan, towards the man who did fairly properly towards Manny Pacquiao in an exhibition. I’m no knowledgeable with regards to the politics and enforcement of guidelines and rules, however wouldn’t this be a violation of his suspension for PEDs use? It doesn’t matter who would win this exhibition, however do you see somebody stepping in to cease the combat earlier than it even occurs?

– John

Hey John.

If I had been king of boxing, this exhibition stunt by Garcia would value him one other 12 months of suspension. After all, he’s giving a giant center finger to the NYSAC and to boxing regulation basically by making a living fighting– throughout a suspension for a violation he by no means actually accepted accountability for, by the best way. 

From the newest information, nevertheless, it seems as if Golden Boy could put the kibosh on Garcia’s exhibition. Oscar De La Hoya launched a social media assertion on Tuesday saying that his firm owns unique rights to all Ryan Garcia fights and that this one is just not Golden Boy-authorized and, subsequently, is just not one thing that will probably be occurring. This may occasionally change if Oscar will get his beak moist from the occasion organizers in Japan. However, as of proper now, I’d say this exhibition isn’t a positive factor to occur by any means.

P.S, My dislike for Devin Haney grows day by day for not eliminating this dip shit. 

Heat, Fuzzies

Hello Paul.

Comfortable Thanksgiving to you and yours. Right here’s a vacation softball in your mail sack.

What’s your happiest boxing reminiscence?

Take care. You’re appreciated.

– The Cincy Child

Hey Cincy Child.

I might get deeply cynical with this and say that I used to be by no means fairly as boxing-happy as when Yori Boy Campas beat the snot out of Tony Ayala Jr. and made him give up. 

However I’ll go heat and fuzzy right here and say that I’ll in all probability by no means be as completely happy and content material with a boxing product as I used to be watching Battle Night time on the Discussion board and HBO’s Boxing After Darkish within the 90s. These exhibits will all the time be completely happy locations in my boxing mind. Different completely happy boxing reminiscences focus on my private involvement within the sport– getting fighters paid their promised purses as a supervisor and, as a coach, watching children grow to be assured, basically respectable human beings underneath my watch.  

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