This Thursday, like each Thursday, I ask you to drag up a seat alongside my bulging, bulbous sack and watch me shoot a load of gooey, salty fact proper into the faces of boxing’s purveyors of ignorance. This week, we have now questions/feedback relating to Dana White in boxing, PBC, and Devin Haney.
Dana White in Boxing?
Hello Paul.
Thanks to your continued nice work.
What are your ideas on Dana White’s newest point out of an incursion into professional boxing. Is that this time for actual?
With help from Turki and the Saudi’s, a mentioned fighter league (just like the UFC mannequin), an curiosity in fighters like Callum Walsh and streaming instruments like UFC Combat Move White appears to have some items in place to maneuver ahead.
Or is that this simply extra sizzling air?
Take care.
– John
Hey John.
Thanks.
Within the eyes of Turki Alalshikh, Dana White’s greatest asset is Dana White, himself. I feel the pseudo powerful man picture and the bullying over his fighters, holding them of their place, is what appeals to a man like Alalshikh. If the Saudis are to go forward with their plan and wrangle a bunch of unruly boxing folks right into a binding, no-escape league, they’ll want a strongman– a strongman who’s a little bit of an outsider, who doesn’t have any horses within the race, and whose solely loyalty is to the bosses. That’s White. The streaming platform and White’s marginal curiosity in a small handful of boxers just isn’t that necessary. The Saudis might simply put collectively all of the instruments and incidentals and I feel Alalshikh has already expressed his curiosity in making DAZN the printed platform for his plans. However White’s dictatorial, labor-busting popularity, alongside along with his excessive profile, is what makes him an excellent entrance man for the Saudi boxing efforts.
PBC, Not Prepared for Prime Time?
Hello Magno.
I do know I’m not the one one who’s mentioning that PBC’s run on Amazon Prime has been whole trash. I’m not a PBC hater, I’m only a boxing fan of 40 years who desires the very best fights and needs them made out there to me at a good worth. I don’t care in any respect about who’s producing the exhibits. PBC has been terrible and this Gervonta Davis vs. Lamont Roach struggle introduced is rubbish. To date of their Amazon Prime deal, they haven’t placed on one struggle I’d pay to see they usually clearly don’t plan on placing out something definitely worth the cash within the fast future both. I could be okay with their exhibits in the event that they weren’t all PPVs, however placing all that junk on PPV is insulting. It does make my choice to not watch simpler, although.
What’s your opinion of PBC on Amazon Prime to date and do you see it getting any higher?
– Dennis from Dallas
Hello Dennis.
PBC on Prime hasn’t been superb. Yeah, there have been some good fights on the 4 playing cards PBC has performed to date and we’re lastly going to get a “free” card on October 19 when Tim Tszyu fights for Bakhram Murtazaliev’s IBF junior middleweight title. There’s additionally been some star energy on show as Canelo has fought twice and there was a Gervonta Davis/David Benavidez double characteristic. However, as an entire, the product has been subpar, particularly for a pay-per-view product.
There seems to be some organizational points inside the corporate with, reportedly, Al Haymon being out of the image for a bit tending to non-public points. Within the time between Showtime Boxing shutting down and the Prime deal kicking off, there was plenty of uncertainty they usually bought their asses kicked within the space of public relations, as on-line rumor mongers and weirdo anti-PBC tradition warriors had their method with the corporate’s popularity. For no matter cause, PBC execs refused to fireside again in opposition to the strategically planted tales of their demise. And though the critics have had them dying since earlier than they even started in 2015, this time, in between broadcast offers, the tales appeared to hold a point of legitimacy. Seeing inactive PBC fighters signal offers with non-PBC promoters and struggle on different, non-PBC, playing cards made the “they’re dying” buzz far more credible.
When the Prime exhibits formally started, they appeared empty, like one-shot specials in a world not meant for them and virtually buried inside the large Amazon Prime universe. Possibly having extra shows– extra FREE shows– will change that feeling and make it appear extra like PBC exists contained in the boxing world once more. Proper now, although, it doesn’t payment that method. The telecasts have been technically superior and a number of the fights have been superb, however there’s one thing lacking there.
All of it begins and stops with the matchmaking, although. Placing on good major occasions definitely worth the followers’ money and time is the cure-all. Proper now, we’re not getting that and Tank Davis-Lamont Roach is a primary instance (no pun supposed).
I actually don’t know if I see issues getting any higher. They want extra exhibits they usually want to return to constructing their very own fighters on these exhibits. As of proper now, I don’t see something from them apart from leaked rumors to pick media of huge, optimistic issues occurring sooner or later.
Is Devin Haney Achieved?
Hello Paul.
From the skin trying in, Devin Haney’s lawsuit in opposition to Ryan Garcia seems like a determined transfer to replenish his checking account and an admission that Haney is trying to money out. That’s how I see it anyway. Will Haney be capable to come again from that Ryan Garcia mess or is he psychologically performed?
–Luis
Hey Luis.
I’ve gotten a couple of variations of this query because the Haney-Garcia struggle and I’ve talked about it earlier than, however I feel it’s going to be very laborious for Haney to actually and really come again from this struggle. He was just about publicly depantsed by a man who didn’t take the struggle critically, regarded sloppy as fuck in spots, and who virtually everybody (together with Devin and his crew) assumed could be dominated. Neglect that the consequence was reversed, that was a humiliating outing and there will probably be important psychological scarring from this. Haney was using excessive coming into the Garcia struggle and he bought introduced right down to earth laborious. That was past humbling and it’s going to take some cautious rebuilding to recover from what occurred that evening. Bodily, Haney will probably be effective for a comeback, however the actual injury was inside the child’s head. The lawsuit could also be a option to try to pad his checking account, however I feel it’s extra an effort to additional get that “Garcia cheated, that’s why he beat me up” narrative flowing inside Devin’s head so he can get his thoughts proper for a comeback.
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