MAGNO'S BULGING MAIL SACK: BOOTS VS. STANIONIS, SHAKUR/WBC VS. TURKI, BIVOL, BENAVIDEZ

Each Thursday right here at FightHype, we show that there’s nonetheless a spot for a great, old school written phrase cash shot from the depths of my bulbous, bulging sack. So, prepare for a few of that notorious Magno-rific gooey, salty, typically NSFW fact. This week, we’ve feedback/questions concerning Shakur Stevenson vs. Turki, WBC vs. Turki, Bivol, Benavidez, and Boots Ennis vs. Eimantas Stanionis.

WTF is happening with Shakur/Turki?

Hello Magno,

Sooo what the fuck is happening with Turki and Shakur Stevenson? Stevenson, as soon as a Turki kiss ass, has now considerably turned his again on him on twitter over the weekend, and quoted Turki is being low-cost swiftly. I suppose when you hook up with Dana White, your monetary plans begin altering on the subject of hiring labor (fighters). That is already wanting like a catastrophe for Turki seeing star energy stroll out on him.. (IMO, Shakur hasn’t impressed me shortly – unsure if he’s truly star energy anymore however would like to know your ideas on this too.)

– Alexis Arango

Hey Alexis.

I touched on this in Monday’s Notes from the Boxing Underground column.

If Shakur was, certainly, low-balled for this Zepeda battle, it’s simply unhealthy, cynical enterprise ethics from Turki and the Saudis. I imply, you may’t spoil somebody’s marketability after which penalize him for his marketability being ruined. Nicely, I suppose, you CAN, however it’s form of shitty. 

Then once more, Shakur solely has himself in charge if he finds himself on this predicament the place he has to make his personal offers, and is operating up in opposition to his personal promoter in doing so. He made the choice to seize at that Saudi cash and align himself with Turki’s shoeshine boy, Eddie Hearn. He ought to’ve had the widespread sense to see the place this was so clearly headed. What sort of infantile considering goes into the assumption that you might have an countless provide of main paydays regardless of ruining your personal marketability, buried inside poor-selling undercards, preventing for detached followers on the opposite aspect of the world? 

I feel this Shakur-Turki stuff might get settled, as a result of it’s too early within the takeover for Turki and the Saudis to tip their labor-busting hand and Shakur is simply too loud to be hidden. However the pulling again of handbags shall be an actual challenge, mark my phrases. Quickly sufficient, when the grooming stage is over, Saudi-controlled fighters will discover the Saudi bucks not as free-flowing as they as soon as had been.

WBC/Turki/Bivol/David Benavidez 

Hello Magno.

Very long time reader, first time mail sack contributor.

I’ve been watching the WBC’s strikes in current days and the way they’ve been subtly pushing again in opposition to Turki Alalshikh. The stripping of Dmitry Bivol and awarding of the WBC belt to David Benavidez appears to be simply the most recent installment of a public energy play. 

Am I loopy in considering this? Am I imagining issues? The place do you suppose that is headed?

Thanks for at all times maintaining issues actual. In a world the place each author appears to be on the market, you’ve at all times been an equal alternative shit talker. We want extra of that.

– Jason N.

Hey Jason.

I posted this on my Twitter account (@boxing_tribune) the opposite day:

“The WBC’s current passive-aggressive stabs at Turki, who plans on operating them into irrelevance, are amusing…It is like watching the prelude to a Dahmer vs. Gacy knife battle…”In opposition to each” is the proper aspect to take with this one…”

The passive-aggressive beef actually began after Turki and his gobblers introduced that they’d be teaming up with TKO/Dana White and that their aim was to determine their very own champions (and “crush” opposition). Not like different boxing enterprise folks, who swallowed the “we’re gonna run you out of city” implications and went about their enterprise, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman appears to have, understandably, crawled into his feelies a bit.

Attempting to drive Bivol into a compulsory protection in opposition to Benavidez was a big-time “daddy, take note of me” transfer. Stripping Bivol of the belt and giving it to Benavidez was extra of a “daddy, I hate you now…take note of me” transfer. And let’s not neglect Sulaiman leaping to (re)order Shakur Stevenson-William Zepeda after Stevenson went public together with his cash points involving Turki. 

Finally, WBC vs. Turki is hustler vs. hustler (though Turki represents the extra damaging of the 2 hustlers). I’m solely mildly as a result of I discover the posturing considerably amusing.

I do really feel unhealthy for the fighters, although, who’re caught within the center. Bivol shouldn’t have needed to vacate. I feel it’s truthful to permit him the Beterbiev rubber match. Benavidez, in the meantime, doesn’t deserve any derision for taking what was handed to him. He’s gone about his enterprise and has achieved issues precisely as they need to be achieved. He’s simply run afoul of enterprise maneuverings which have stored him from the alternatives he must be having. 

When bullshitters hurl shit at each other, everybody round them tends to get splattered

Jaron Ennis vs. Eimantas Stanionis

Paulie Mags!

Give me your ideas on Boots vs. Stanionis this Saturday and I’ll lay a bundle on what you choose. You bought to be leaning on Boots, proper?

– Clyde

Hey Clyde.

Geeez, I don’t need that form of stress. I’ll simply make an off-the-cuff suggestion and you are able to do what you need with it. 

Jaron Ennis SHOULD win on Saturday. He’s extra gifted, extra expert, and simply all-around higher. He’s going through a man in Stanionis who’s solely fought as soon as in about three years. Every thing, together with momentum and the all-important house area (house promotion) benefit is working in Boots’ favor. 

However…

The betting odds have Stanionis as a +400 underdog and I completely do NOT really feel that he’s that a lot of an underdog. 

Stanionis has the form of energetic, in-your-face fashion that can give Ennis some points, particularly because the battle wears on. Ennis has had issues with these sorts of fighters, not less than in spots. 

Ennis is the very best fighter Stanionis has confronted, however it is also argued that Stanionis is the very best Ennis has confronted. It must be an in depth battle. If in case you have a couple of dollars you don’t thoughts risking, I’d put a modest wager on the upset. The percentages, not less than proper now, are near being too good to go up. 

For shits and giggles, I’d put a couple of dollars on Stanionis by resolution. 

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