Right here at FightHype, we make an area among the many video content material for a great, old style 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 relating to Boots Ennis signing with Matchroom, Haney-Garcia, Hitchins-Lemos, and Paulie Malignaggi.
Haney vs. “Loopy”
Hello Paul.
Devin Haney vs. Ryan Garcia is lower than two weeks away and I’m not getting any actual feeling for the struggle. We’ve seen Garcia act loopy and unhinged. We’ve seen discuss poor ticket gross sales. We’ve seen “new face of boxing” speak from Devin’s dad. And we’ve seen means an excessive amount of discuss Tank Davis for a struggle not involving Tank Davis. However I don’t hear a lot speak concerning the precise struggle, which I feel might show to be the least attention-grabbing factor about this occasion. I do know you’ve touched on the nuts and bolts of the struggle earlier than, however do you share my view that this can be an actual snoozer, with Devin boxing his method to a protected, straightforward factors win?
– Damon
Hey Damon.
The protected, sane prediction for this struggle can be Haney UD by way of jab-and-grab and primary boxing. It’s the logical take and, trusting within the smarts of the Haneys, the most certainly struggle evening technique. For all of the bluster from dad/coach Invoice Haney, the Haney means is protected, conservative, and centered on taking part in to Devin’s strengths. Opening up would give Garcia an opportunity to land that rocket left hand– the one shot he has to win this struggle, IMO. Having stated all that, although, I do assume there’s a a lot larger likelihood of Garcia scoring the upset versus Haney than there was towards Tank Davis. Haney holds his head a bit increased, he’s extra vulnerable to a stiff counter, and he’s been buzzed earlier than, notably towards Jorge Linares. Garcia, for all his faults and flaws, has extraordinarily fast palms and his wildness/lack of refinement might be a difficulty for a well-trained fighter like Haney, who’s buried in orthodoxy. If Garcia lands one thing massive at any level, all that edge in talent shall be out the window and Haney shall be in uncharted territory. That’s what I discover intriguing about this struggle. Sooner or later, Garcia will contact Haney with one thing vital. Then, we’ll see what’s what.
All of the nonsense within the lead-up to this struggle has achieved nothing for selling the occasion. If something, it’s turned some hardcore followers off. It additionally discouraged many from planning to attend the cardboard as a result of there was some professional doubt as as to if the struggle would even undergo. For awhile, Garcia’s social media nuttiness was screaming “psychological well being points will get this struggle canceled” and who’s going to e book a flight, a resort room, and dish out for very overpriced tickets to an occasion that was 50-50 in getting scrubbed? A few of that has been mounted. Garcia is much less outstanding in his nuttiness and ticket costs have been slashed out of necessity, however it’s nonetheless going to be a tricky sale.
This Boots was Made for Walkin’
Yo, Paulie!
I simply noticed the information that Boots Ennis signed with Eddie Hearn and Matchroom and I instantly considered you. I needed to drop you this message to get your take. Will this be a foul or good transfer for Boots? Will strolling away from PBC harm his profession or harm PBC extra?
– D. from The D.
Hey D.
First, no offense, however why the hell would I be the primary particular person you considered after listening to the information? That’s a bit bizarre, however thanks…I assume. Second, Jaron Ennis was by no means a “PBC fighter,” he simply fought on some PBC reveals.
As for the signing, I don’t actually get the purpose except Matchroom frontloaded a ton of cash and supplied Boots a assure he couldn’t flip down. Who’s he presupposed to struggle behind the DAZN/Matchroom paywall? The one struggle even marginally marketable there’s with Conor Benn, however I severely doubt that Hearn would toss Benn to the lions (Boots) like that when he’s at the moment making an attempt to construct Benn into somebody who can promote. In truth, there’s not a complete lot on the market for Boots at 147, regardless of who he’s signed with. However that simply makes it odder that he’d signal an unique take care of a promotional firm. You’d assume free company can be excellent for him, permitting him the pliability to maneuver round and take greatest accessible gives wherever he can discover them. Transferring as much as 154, in the meantime, will see him in the identical spot by which he now finds himself at 147. I like him as a fighter and I hope he will get the massive fights he needs/wants, however I don’t see that taking place at Matchroom.
Hitchins-Lemos, Hatin’ Paulie
Hello Paul
So, I do not need to be certainly one of these know all of it guys, however I believed that Gustavo Lemos was going to be pure hell for Richardson Hitchins, Lemos was a come ahead quantity puncher with good energy and Hitchins’ solely asset is him sporting an Quartey-esque jab. This can be a massive drawback with fights these days. I noticed a really humorous but stuffed with knowledge remark that stated: “I smelled theft earlier than they even entered the ring.” We all know the best path for this may be Hitchins getting a rematch, however in as we speak’s customary they’ll discover a tender contact for him to look good for his subsequent struggle (Ala Teofimo).
Yet one more query I had for you, what do you consider Paulie Malignaggi the boxing critic? I’m asking you as a result of typically I really feel all the pieces that comes out of his mouth sounds adverse. He’s the portrayal of an individual certainly one of our highschool lecturers would discuss: “Es una persona que tiene un problema para cada solucion (he’s a person who has an issue for each resolution).
Greatest Regards.
– Miguel
Hey Miguel.
Boxing has an extended historical past of scripts being flipped within the ring, by way of upset, but the script being carried on as deliberate as if the loss by no means occurred. I’m not essentially saying that Hitchins ought to’ve misplaced the struggle, however we’ve been across the sport lengthy sufficient to know that it might’ve taken an act of God for the “rising star” home fighter to take an “L” on a card like this, towards an opponent like Lemos. And even when divine intervention managed to beat boxing politics, the script would’ve nonetheless been carried out as deliberate. Hitchins can be put proper again on his identical path to stardom and Lemos would’ve been solid apart as if he hadn’t achieved what he did.
This occurs rather a lot. The textbook case of this, maybe, was in 2008 when then-rising star Amir Khan was starched in a single spherical by Colombian Breidis Prescott. Khan would step proper again right into a minor title struggle a couple of months later after which be set as much as win his first world title lower than a 12 months after the upset KO loss. Prescott, in the meantime, was given the runaround, received no rub off the win as a fall man who didn’t do his (shedding) job, and was ultimately floor down by the enterprise till he grew to become the autumn man he was presupposed to be. I don’t want to inform anybody studying this {that a} fighter’s connections matter. Hitchins simply wasn’t going to lose that evening, even when he had really misplaced.
As for Malignaggi? He’s fallen into that Teddy Atlas gap the place he is aware of he’ll get consideration with negativity, so now he’s simply shoveling turds into the furnace to get reactions. I like his evaluation of technique and approach. His soapbox stuff is performed out and, IMO, not that credible when you understand the private biases and prejudices he has.
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