Whats up boxing followers and devoted haters. Right here’s one other week’s value of my bulbous sack, bulging with gooey, salty reality, in your face. Take pleasure in. This week, we have now feedback/questions relating to Prime Rank, Canelo-Crawford logistics, competing playing cards, and Jaime Munguia’s soiled take a look at.
Prime Rank/Canelo-Crawford Logistics/Competing Playing cards
Hello Paul.
I belief this finds you doing nicely.
A few ideas as Boxing strikes into its summer time season.
– What’s your tackle Prime 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 blended 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 all over the place?
– 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 completed with Prime Rank and their contract with them is over this summer time. There’s wildly conflicting info floating round relating to the place the Bob Arum firm might land. Some are saying that they will’t discover a broadcast accomplice. A current 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 shops. So, who is aware of?
Personally, I lean in direction of the latter greater than the previous, simply because I discover it arduous to consider that with so many content-starved streaming providers, there wouldn’t be at the very least one sucker, er, purchaser. The “three separate shops” half, nonetheless, leads me to consider that the published preparations aren’t very huge or profitable. In any case, would a severe powerhouse broadcaster providing a powerhouse deal be okay with sharing their acquisition with two different shops?
Both means, we must always know quickly sufficient about Prime Rank’s plans.
– Effectively, it positive 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 maintaining 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 figuring out the place the precise struggle goes to be looks as if a extremely huge deal. It’s the start of June, however followers must know fairly quickly the place the struggle might be, to allow them to really make plans to journey there.
And that is considered one of many issues with the Saudi boxing takeover. Turki and his individuals don’t appear tuned in, in any respect, in relation to the desires, wants, and requirements of the followers (the shoppers). 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 completely so solely 300 VIPs might attend, was tone deaf. It’s as if this enterprise is being run for the only real enjoyment of 1 person– Turki– and with out regard to truly turning a revenue or making the enterprise long-term sustainable. And that might very nicely be the case.
The Saudi cash will purchase plenty 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 strong or as limitless as individuals have been result in consider. Sooner or later their boxing enterprise must function like a enterprise. They’ll have to show earnings and really care concerning the shoppers past the present Turki-think of “Hey, have a look at this factor I purchased, how cool am I?” That’s the place they are going to 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 wonderful that we haven’t run ourselves into oblivion, though we positive appear to be making an effort to take action presently.
Jaime Munguia Pops Soiled
Hey Magno.
What a shock that Jaime Munguia begins coaching with Eddy Reynoso and he all of a sudden comes up soiled for PEDs! Individuals needs to be speaking about this may occasionally greater than they’re and by that I imply media needs to 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 mentioned this not too long ago on Twitter, however truthfully, I am extra stunned when fighters DON’T take a look at constructive for one thing. You’d should be terminally naive to assume that probably the most poorly regulated “actual” sport, the place the majority of the intense PEDs testing is carried out on a voluntary foundation in keeping with the whims and situations of the fighters and promoters, will not be brimming with juiced up athletes.
Whether or not Munguia is a cheat or Reynoso is complicit in his fighters’ soiled assessments is inappropriate. The problem 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 path of the general public discourse and, thereby, main the best way to the ridiculous concept that voluntary further testing was the best solution 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 solution to actually know who’s soiled and who’s not.
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