Right here at FightHype, we make an area among the many video content material for a superb, old school written phrase cash shot from the depths of my bulbous, bulging sack. So, prepare for a few of that notorious Magno-rific gooey, salty, generally NSFW reality. This week, now we have 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 combat. We’ve seen Garcia act loopy and unhinged. We’ve seen speak about poor ticket gross sales. We’ve seen “new face of boxing” discuss from Devin’s dad. And we’ve seen approach an excessive amount of speak about Tank Davis for a combat not involving Tank Davis. However I don’t hear a lot discuss concerning the precise combat, which I believe 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 combat earlier than, however do you share my view that this can be an actual snoozer, with Devin boxing his strategy to a protected, straightforward factors win?
– Damon
Hey Damon.
The protected, sane prediction for this combat 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 almost definitely combat night time technique. For all of the bluster from dad/coach Invoice Haney, the Haney approach 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 combat, IMO. Having mentioned all that, although, I do assume there’s a a lot larger likelihood of Garcia scoring the upset versus Haney than there was in opposition to Tank Davis. Haney holds his head a bit greater, he’s extra inclined to a stiff counter, and he’s been buzzed earlier than, notably in opposition to Jorge Linares. Garcia, for all his faults and flaws, has extraordinarily fast arms and his wildness/lack of refinement might be a problem 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 will likely be out the window and Haney will likely be in uncharted territory. That’s what I discover intriguing about this combat. In some unspecified time in the future, 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 combat has carried out 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 legit doubt as as to if the combat would even undergo. For awhile, Garcia’s social media nuttiness was screaming “psychological well being points will get this combat 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 fastened. Garcia is much less outstanding in his nuttiness and ticket costs have been slashed out of necessity, nevertheless it’s nonetheless going to be a troublesome 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 damage his profession or damage 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 exhibits.
As for the signing, I don’t actually get the purpose except Matchroom frontloaded a ton of cash and provided Boots a assure he couldn’t flip down. Who’s he alleged to combat behind the DAZN/Matchroom paywall? The one combat even marginally marketable there may be 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, irrespective of who he’s signed with. However that simply makes it odder that he’d signal an unique cope with a promotional firm. You’d assume free company can be preferrred for him, permitting him the pliability to maneuver round and take greatest out there affords wherever he can discover them. Shifting as much as 154, in the meantime, will see him in the identical spot wherein he now finds himself at 147. I like him as a fighter and I hope he will get the large fights he needs/wants, however I don’t see that occuring at Matchroom.
Hitchins-Lemos, Hatin’ Paulie
Hello Paul
So, I do not need to be one in all 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. It is a massive drawback with fights these days. I noticed a really humorous but stuffed with knowledge remark that mentioned: “I smelled theft earlier than they even entered the ring.” We all know the correct path for this could be Hitchins getting a rematch, however in at present’s commonplace they’ll discover a gentle contact for him to look good for his subsequent combat (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 generally I really feel the whole lot that comes out of his mouth sounds unfavourable. He’s the portrayal of an individual one in all our highschool lecturers would speak about: “Es una persona que tiene un problema para cada solucion (he’s a person who has an issue for each resolution).
Finest 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 combat, 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, in opposition to 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 forged apart as if he hadn’t carried out what he did.
This occurs quite a bit. 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 combat a number of months later after which be set as much as win his first world title lower than a yr after the upset KO loss. Prescott, in the meantime, was given the runaround, obtained 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 turned the autumn man he was alleged 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 night time, 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 method. His soapbox stuff is performed out and, IMO, not that credible when you recognize the non-public biases and prejudices he has.
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