Good day boxing followers and devoted haters. Right here’s one other week’s value of my bulbous sack, bulging with gooey, salty fact, in your face. Get pleasure from. This week, we now have feedback/questions concerning Turki tales, the Pacquiao comeback, the WBC, and haters.
Jive Turki, Once more?
Hello Paul.
I hope all is properly with you and your loved ones.
What do you make of the current instability in plans for Canelo-Crawford. Is that this a ruse or are there points with Dana White and potential websites, networks, dates?
Greater but, does Turki sense that the cash making potential for this occasion has been diminished by Canelo’s current displaying towards William Scull. Perhaps the Saudis are pulling again some cash from Boxing to allow them to give extra to Donald Trump and his household.
Take care.
– John
Hey John.
I wouldn’t belief something coming from Turki or his propaganda outfit, Ring Journal. So, I don’t know what to make of those current developments (Turki instantly altering Canelo-Crawford from Friday, September 12 to Saturday, September 13– to a venue TBA– and from a TKO Group promotion to a Riyadh Season occasion).
I don’t assume Turki wants a purpose to do no matter he needs. He’s thrown sufficient cash round and bought sufficient bootlickers to create a bubble of entitlement round himself. There was no purpose to lie in regards to the Canelo signing again a couple of months in the past, both, however he did it and it served completely no goal aside from to make each faux journalist in his make use of appear to be asshole cucks. And, seeing as how he bragged about it after the actual fact, I don’t assume he’s realized something since then.
If that is all true, although, it’s attention-grabbing that Turki can be switching Canelo-Crawford from being a TKO Group promotion– the primary beneath the supposed steering of Dana White– to a Riyadh Season occasion. It may very well be for a bigger purpose, as you talked about, or just because White mentioned publicly that he “hated” the concept of placing Canelo-Crawford in Allegiant Stadium and Turki has zero tolerance for dissent. However, once more, who is aware of?
I wouldn’t be shocked one bit, nonetheless, if the Saudis did pull again on their boxing spending. Turki’s boxing efforts usually are not going properly financially and his current missteps in NYC and with Canelo-Scull have been fairly embarrassing. Whereas the Saudis could have a excessive tolerance for shedding cash, they received’t maintain funding this Turki vainness undertaking if it’s not producing the outcomes they want– bringing tourism to Saudi Arabia and sportswashing their title. By the plethora of empty seats in that “bought out” Riyadh Canelo battle, it’s fairly clear to see that no one is hopping on flights to jet over to Riyadh for a battle weekend. Hundreds of thousands are higher spent currying favor with Trump than with Canelo and Ryan Garcia.
I actually don’t care all that a lot about any of this. When the battle occurs, I’ll watch and report on it. The one assure for me is that, with Turki and his gobblers in cost, there’ll be a clusterfuck of dangerous, fan-unfriendly concepts surrounding it. The 1st step in that clusterfuck is making shoppers not sure of when and the place the occasion can be. I’m no promotions professional, however that doesn’t sound like an important thought.
Pacquiao: Don’t Name It A Comeback…Please, Actually, Don’t…
Hey Paul.
Simply if you assume the WBC can’t get any decrease, they high themselves by rating Manny Pacquiao no. 5 within the welterweight division, simply in time to make a battle with their titlist Mario Barrios. Their corruption is aware of no bounds.
– A Boxing Man
Hey Boxing Man.
For those who learn Monday’s Notes from the Boxing Underground column, you understand my tackle the Pacquiao comeback and his battle with Barrios. It’s foolish, silly, and cynical. I anticipate nothing lower than grasping complicity from the WBC in pushing this one via.
As I additionally talked about on Monday, boxing has greater points than a Pacquiao comeback.
I at all times get a kick out of the faux outrage from media in regards to the alphabet organizations. They’re secure targets for outrage as a result of no one likes them. However most of those media folks additionally lean closely on the alphabets when it fits their functions. For instance, there are the dopes who justified Saul Alvarez preventing William Scull as a result of Scull held the IBF title and Alvarez wished to be undisputed. Canelo was already undisputed at 168 and Scull was as a lot a world champion as I’m a jazz dancer. You both be constant together with your outrage or have the decency to stroll your self into spinning helicopter blades.
Personally, my take has at all times been that the IBF, WBA, WBC, and WBO exist, they’ve belts, and they’re part of the game. They must be acknowledged. It’s silly and dishonest to disregard them. However legitimacy is one other problem completely, decided completely on a fighter’s physique of labor. I believe most boxing followers share that very same perspective and shortly be taught to maneuver across the BS to get at what’s “actual.”
Haters and Hated
Hello Paul.
Simply curious, however you discuss quite a lot of shit and point out lots of people by title in your tales. Do you ever hear again from them? If that’s the case, what’s that dialog like?
I’ve been an enormous fan and an enormous supporter for longer than I can bear in mind. Maintain doing all your factor.
– Peter Pedro
Hey Pedro.
The humorous factor is that I nearly by no means hear, straight, from any of those people– particularly media folks. I realized an extended, very long time in the past that boxing media tends to have appallingly little gumption and testicular fortitude. It’s nearly liberating for somebody like me as a result of I can just about toss out something and so they’ll simply scatter. Some may…MIGHT…sometimes cuddle up collectively in some small nook of social media to take swipes at me, in the event that they consider I received’t come round. On the one or two events the place somebody has really come at me publicly, they’ve regretted it as a result of I hand them their deflated head.
Boxing media is so typically weak and wimpy that it’s typically irritating. I sometimes hearth off emails to figuratively seize them across the shoulders and shake some life into them– “battle again, cocksucker!”
What often occurs, although, is that media simply pretends to not know what I write and so they proceed to play that recreation of attempting to freeze me out.
Non-media boxing folks sometimes write to me after I say one thing they don’t agree with, however these cases are few and much between.
I believe folks can be shocked to know, nonetheless, simply what number of revered boxing people– media and non-media– write to me and have been carrying on a longstanding correspondence with me. These are precise execs who know that a part of their gig shouldn’t be solely giving criticism, but additionally taking it.
In the end, I simply fear about me, although. I maintain motoring forward in addition to I can.
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