Each Thursday, FightHype makes some house amongst its video content material to host boxing’s most NSFW mail bag column– Mine. On this week’s Sack, I deal with feedback/questions relating to my tackle the Saudi takeover of boxing, Carl Froch on Preventing, and Tank Davis retiring.
Turki Hater
Asshole. I don’t get your fixed hate for the one man keen to speculate billions into boxing and actually save the game. What Turki has finished for boxing is greater than all the promoters mixed and with out his work the final couple of years would’ve been useless. You do notice you appear like a complete joke as the one fool crying about one thing that’s past query a constructive for boxing. When you hate boxing a lot, go away. Everyone seems to be laughing at you.
– A Boxing Fan
Shit head. What number of instances do I’ve to go over the identical issues earlier than realizing that some persons are simply too silly or too rotten to care? So, what else can I do however hold talking reality to the dummies, weirdos, creeps, and chronically shortsighted? When you’re critical about desirous to know why this Saudi takeover is a foul factor (your in all probability don’t), give this Notes from Boxing Underground a learn: http://www.fighthype.com/information/article45788.html.
However there’s one additional factor your assault put up touched on that I wished to handle. So, right here I am going in all probability losing my time and vitality once more.
So, you’re attempting to inform me that each one of those promoters wouldn’t have been placing on playing cards if not for Turki? They’d be sitting at him consuming Cheetos and watching recreation reveals, if not for the grace of Saudi Arabia paying them to run their enterprise? Get the fuck out of right here. That’s some extremely silly shit you have got swirling in your head house. They actually bought the hell out of the Saudi narrative to your gullible ass.
All that the Saudi cash did was line the pockets of promoters for fights that will’ve/may’ve/ought to’ve been made anyway. Nothing’s been fastened. The takeover will merely simply whittle away extra of the fan base and degrade issues further– making issues more durable for the comeback after Saudi Arabia strikes on from boxing. And if Saudi Arabia DOESN’T transfer away from boxing? Effectively, then it might as effectively be the tip of the game for a lot of anyway because the fights will probably be fairly inaccessible to the West. The standard will even ultimately undergo as developmental, star-building efforts will probably be vastly diminished below the Saudis, who’ve proven no real interest in prospect growth and received’t have a lot assist in that space as a result of they’re driving most of the specialists within the area both out of labor or into very subservient positions.
However, at this level, I’m virtually on the “no matter…allow them to discover out for themselves” stage.
Riyadh Season Card
Magno.
That Riyadh Season card in February is fireplace. You’ve been doing nothing however working your mouth about Turki and his reveals, however you bought to close your mouth now, proper? Thanks Your Excellency. Thank Magno for nothing.
– P. Morrow
Hey P.
Fuck you. When all is claimed and finished and issues play out as disastrously as they’re certain to play out, a few of you could notice that I used to be in all probability the one one amongst my colleagues that cared sufficient to not less than attempt to battle the nice battle. I obtained information for you, however quite a lot of these media folks 100% agree with my skeptical tackle the Saudi takeover of boxing, however have chosen to stay silent in deference to Saudi cash and what it means to their very own monetary backside line. THAT is how a lot the care. So, critically, fuck off together with your meat head logic.
Froch on Preventing
Hello Paul,
Thanks to your continued tilting at windmills and for offering us with some goal information and correct journalism in our favorite sport. I need to say that I used to be utterly unaware of the shenanigans and vested pursuits of the boxing media till I began studying your work a few years in the past.
It now appears that we’ve you and handful of different journalists which are goal and of all folks, Carl Froch that isn’t afraid to talk his thoughts and name out the sycophants. Have you ever seen his stuff on youtube and if that’s the case, what do you consider it?
Stick with it sir! You might be appreciated.
– Louis Cockeran
Hey Louis.
Thanks for the type phrases. I’ll sustain the nice battle for so long as potential.
I don’t watch an entire lot of YouTube boxing content material, however I’ve seen a few of Froch’s stuff and he’s normally proper on the cash. I additionally similar to his basic type. He looks as if a no BS sort of man and I respect that. We want increasingly more of his type within the sport.
Tank Retiring?
Hey Paul.
Very long time reader right here. I recognize you at all times been actual and sincere with the followers. You don’t get that with anybody else in boxing media lately.
What do you consider Tank Davis saying he’ll be retiring on the finish of 2025? Do you assume he’s critical? If he’s, I feel he’ll go down as one of many best wasted skills of all time. There was simply a lot he ought to’ve finished that he didn’t get an opportunity to. What’s do you assume?
– Mike from Brooklyn
Hey Mike.
If he’s actually and really critical concerning the retirement stuff, then I applaud him. Peace of thoughts is value greater than any belt or any big-money purse. Boxing is a darkish place with quite a lot of darkish and twisted (to not point out dumb) folks fucking together with your psychological and emotional well-being on a regular basis. It’s a tiring world wherein to dwell, even earlier than factoring within the bodily stress of coaching and combating. So, I utterly perceive somebody desirous to take away himself from that human meat grinder. He shouldn’t give two grams of a thought relating to legacy if leaving boxing behind is what’s finest for him.
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