Whats up 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 have now feedback/questions concerning High Rank, Canelo-Crawford logistics, competing playing cards, and Jaime Munguia’s soiled check.
High Rank/Canelo-Crawford Logistics/Competing Playing cards
Hello Paul.
I belief this finds you doing properly.
A few ideas as Boxing strikes into its summer time season.
– What’s your tackle High Rank’s seeming struggles to discover a media outlet for his or her Boxing programming? Are they overvaluing the product or holding out for an announcement later this summer time. My understanding is that their contract with ESPN expires on the finish of July?
– There appears to be some combined messages within the rollout and announcement of Canelo-Crawford. Who plans the promotional and organizational methods for Turki and the Saudis? Have they got a plan? Or do they simply throw round cash in all places?
– Why schedule dueling occasions on July 19 and August 16? Should followers pay for Usyk-Dubois and Manny-Barrios on July 19 and Tank-Roach and Teo-Haney on Aug. 16? Loopy stuff.
Thanks and take care.
– John
Hey John.
I’ll sort out these so as:
– Yeah, ESPN is finished with High Rank and their contract with them is over this summer time. There’s wildly conflicting data floating round concerning the place the Bob Arum firm might land. Some are saying that they’ll’t discover a broadcast companion. A latest report got here out saying that, per Arum, there’s a deal in place which is able to see them placed on as much as 40 exhibits a yr by way of three separate retailers. So, who is aware of?
Personally, I lean in the direction of the latter greater than the previous, simply because I discover it laborious to imagine that with so many content-starved streaming companies, there wouldn’t be not less than one sucker, er, purchaser. The “three separate retailers” half, nevertheless, leads me to imagine that the published preparations are usually not very huge or profitable. In spite of everything, would a severe powerhouse broadcaster providing a powerhouse deal be okay with sharing their acquisition with two different retailers?
Both means, we should always know quickly sufficient about High Rank’s plans.
– Effectively, it certain appears as if the one plan happening over there in Turkiland facilities round Turki Alalshikh appearing out on his naive whims and the sure males round him agreeing that his each transfer is genius.
As of proper now, Turki has snatched the promotion from TKO Group and is protecting it Saudi-centric. The September 13 date has been secured, however not the placement or the venue. Not having a clearly-defined promoter is a boxing nerd/media lament, however not realizing the place the precise battle goes to be looks as if a extremely huge deal. It’s the start of June, however followers have to know fairly quickly the place the battle can be, to allow them to really make plans to journey there.
And that is one in all many issues with the Saudi boxing takeover. Turki and his individuals don’t appear tuned in, in any respect, relating to the needs, wants, and requirements of the followers (the customers). This Canelo-Crawford procrastination is tone deaf in the identical means that having three pay-per-views within the span of eight days was tone deaf. It’s tone deaf in the identical means that having a NY Instances Sq. card, however fencing it off totally so solely 300 VIPs may attend, was tone deaf. It’s as if this enterprise is being run for the only enjoyment of 1 person– Turki– and with out regard to really turning a revenue or making the enterprise long-term sustainable. And that would very properly be the case.
The Saudi cash will purchase lots of deference and, apparently, a transparent path to do regardless of the hell they need within the brief time period. However that cash is nowhere close to as sturdy or as limitless as individuals have been result in imagine. In some unspecified time in the future their boxing enterprise must function like a enterprise. They’ll have to show earnings and really care in regards to the customers past the present Turki-think of “Hey, take a look at this factor I purchased, how cool am I?” That’s the place they may flounder and fall as a result of the person in cost (Turki) is an impetuous man-child who has zero tolerance for anybody telling him something he prefers to not hear.
– Boxing is silly and self-destructive. What else is there to say? Staging competing huge ticket occasions on the identical day– usually on the similar time– makes completely no sense. This sport is silly to the purpose of being a misplaced trigger. It’s completely superb that we haven’t run ourselves into oblivion, though we certain appear to be making an effort to take action at present.
Jaime Munguia Pops Soiled
Hey Magno.
What a shock that Jaime Munguia begins coaching with Eddy Reynoso and he immediately comes up soiled for PEDs! Individuals must be speaking about this may increasingly greater than they’re and by that I imply media must be speaking about it, in addition to commissions and sanctioning organizations as a result of the followers have been throughout this.
– Steven M.
Hey Steven.
I stated this just lately on Twitter, however actually, I am extra stunned when fighters DON’T check constructive for one thing. You’d should be terminally naive to assume that essentially the most poorly regulated “actual” sport, the place the majority of the intense PEDs testing is performed on a voluntary foundation based on the whims and circumstances of the fighters and promoters, is just not brimming with juiced up athletes.
Whether or not Munguia is a cheat or Reynoso is complicit in his fighters’ soiled checks is irrelevant. The difficulty is that boxing isn’t severe about antidoping measures and by no means has been. There was some extent, across the preliminary Mayweather-Pacquiao discussions, the place the time might have been proper for a severe run at true PEDs testing. However insiders with a vested curiosity in not having actual testing performed sure media members like suckers, altering the route of the general public discourse and, thereby, main the best way to the ridiculous concept that voluntary further testing was the precise method to go.
Now, with the youngsters primarily operating the proverbial sweet store by dealing with a lot of their very own testing, there’s no method to actually know who’s soiled and who’s not.
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