Social media has made it actual arduous to carry on to frequent sense and preserve any diploma of consistency in requirements. There’s simply a number of crap hurled about by dummies, lazy thinkers, and agenda-wielding creeps. The general public discourse surrounding nearly any matter nowadays is about as clear as porta potty sludge. And even these with a transparent thoughts and earnest, trustworthy pondering can fall into the wasteland of pointless stupidity.
We noticed a little bit of that this previous Saturday when Tim Tszyu obtained completely kazooed by IBF junior middleweight champ Bakhram Murtazaliev, dropped 4 occasions en path to a third-round TKO.
The surprising curb stomping introduced a number of armchair experience to the forefront of the web Universo Pugilistico. And with that wave of consultants washing over social media got here a complete lot of hypocrisy.
Earlier than Saturday, Tszyu was the form of throwback fighter “we would have liked extra of.” He was praised for “wanting all of the smoke.” He was gonna lower down all of the sissies and prima donnas. Even the weirdo tradition warrior PBC haters had been begrudgingly giving him his props.
After Saturday, although, Tszyu is a shame, a bum, a hype job. The Al Haymon lynch mob diddled themselves on social media over the weekend, crowing about one other rubbish PBC fighter put into the trash bin, presumably whereas pinching their nipples and climaxing to pornographic Haymon photoshops.
There are a number of doable causes for Tszyu getting crushed.
Perhaps Tszyu was overrated all alongside, a strong fighter who benefited from some favorable matchmaking.
Perhaps Tszyu is a kind of fighters who can come into fights ill-prepared, who distracts himself along with his personal press clippings and/or chronically appears previous the opposition in entrance of him. We’ve seen that on a couple of events with him all through his profession and we DID see a number of trying previous Murtazaliev in the course of the lead-in to Saturday’s struggle.
It might be that Murtazaliev is simply THAT good.
It might be that Murtazaliev simply occurred to catch him with the fitting shot on the proper time, on the fitting spot, and Tszyu couldn’t regain his bearings.
The entire above might be true.
However what we do know for sure is that Tszyu is out of the top-tier image for now and, if he’s not, his workforce ought to take him out of it. He must work on his focus, his consistency and massive technical points involving his protection and the variation in his offensive assault.
We additionally know that Murtazaliev profitable was not good for anybody’s enterprise apart from his personal and his flat-lining promoter Essential Occasions’. It doesn’t matter what number of self-described hardcore followers flood the web with reward for a few of these Jap Bloc fighters, none of them can be attracts within the US or transfer the boxing needle one bit right here. Murtazaliev, Israil Madrimov, Serhii Bohachuk– and even established elite-level names like Beterbiev, Bivol, and Usyk– do virtually nothing for the massive image of boxing.
Sorry.
These guys might do effectively in sure pockets of the world and the Saudis are greater than welcome to maintain shedding cash on selling them, however the sport wants fighters who’re bankable within the US market.
Tszyu was somebody like that and we actually don’t have too lots of these sorts of fighters anymore. Celebrating his loss is a bit like celebrating an outbreak of salmonella at The Olive Backyard as you’re ending a giant bowl of pasta carbonara there.
However boxing will go on.
Saturday’s first “free” PBC present on Amazon Prime was actually strong. It had a great, virtually Boxing After Darkish vibe to it with nice pacing and a run time that didn’t drag on like a C-Span congressional listening to. Tapia-Saavedra was excellent, Tellez-Gonzalez was strong, and there was a noteworthy shocker in the primary occasion.
It’s too unhealthy that PBC doesn’t have any extra of those reveals deliberate within the foreseeable future. They may construct one thing very nice with playing cards like this, creating momentum for the pay-per-views whereas introducing doable new stars to the combo.
This Murtazaliev-Tszyu present, which didn’t actually look to be constructing in the direction of something regardless of who gained, appeared extra like a “See? We did do a free present” factor. But it surely was good nonetheless and that’s a plus for boxing.
It’s in all probability no secret that I’ve soured significantly on the PBC product these previous couple of months. I nonetheless like their preliminary imaginative and prescient and the group has some good, trustworthy individuals. I simply assume they’ve made some current missteps and have let themselves be disassembled to a substantial diploma by the focused lies and rumors they permit to go unchecked.
I nonetheless don’t see the PBC product having any kind of cohesion to it anymore. The corporate that after focused the creation of a league-like presence now looks as if it’s simply airing a bunch of random occasions and slapping a price ticket on all the pieces to remain afloat.
A PBC comeback could be a great factor for boxing, however I’m not holding my breath.
One factor is for sure, although…Tim Tszyu gained’t be a part of that comeback– a minimum of, not for now.
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