Hey 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 concerning Lomachenko’s P4P standing, Ring Journal, and a handbag bid insult to 2 former world champs.
Pound-for-Pound Lomachenko/Purse Bid Insult
Hey Paul,
I do know the P4P factor is legendary, however I’ve at all times been curious as to how Loma made it on most everybody’s listing with so few fights. Do you assume it’s due to his newbie background, or the extent of opposition within the professionals? I’m not discrediting him as a fighter. I feel he’s an elite degree expertise. He has good names on his resume– Gary Russell, Nick Walters, Luke Campbell, Rigondeaux, and Salido. I personally do not know one other fighter that has moved up so rapidly. What am I lacking?
I am additionally inquisitive about your tackle purse bids. A couple of month or so in the past, I learn the place some promotional firm gained a handbag bid for $2500.00 to stage a battle. I do know there’s a standards and tips to it, however that’s embarrassing, even for a primary battle skilled. I get that you need to pay your dues and work your means up the ranks, however as a fighter this could solely be thought of an funding in your self, and for what’s to return. Overlook about paying the trainers, managers, promotional firm and legal professionals. Hell, each fighters could find yourself out of pocket when its all stated and performed. I am simply saying.
Regards.
– Reggie Cannon
Hey Reggie.
Lomachenko bought into the pound-for-pound rankings (which I feel are utterly farcical bullshit, anyway) so rapidly as a result of the overwhelming majority of these within the boxing media (like virtually each certainly one of them) are a bunch of lemmings who purchase into their very own nonsense and hyperbole. They purchased into the hype of a mega-decorated newbie leaping straight into the deep finish of the professional recreation and ran with it. As soon as the story was laid out to them, they constructed their Lomachenko worldview round that story. Not that he wasn’t an elite-level expertise (as you stated) and didn’t deserve acclaim, in fact. He simply bought elevated so excessive, so rapidly as a result of that was the story and as soon as the media locked themselves into their echo chamber, that was going to be the story whether or not it was or it wasn’t.
Then, once they had elevated him so excessive and positioned him so firmly atop their fake pound-for-pound rankings, they have been caught when he bought beat by Teofimo Lopez. Teofimo clearly didn’t belong, simply but, within the pound-for-pound rankings, however he needed to be there as a result of he beat such a extremely ranked fighter, who, in flip, couldn’t be knocked too far down the rankings as a result of it could make the pound-for-pound nerd listing makers appear like idiots for having ranked him so extremely within the first place. A large number was what resulted, with Lopez ranked means too excessive and, in some rankings, not ranked in any respect, whereas the man he beat was nonetheless positioned above him. And now Lomachenko remains to be within the Ring Journal pound-for-pound rankings at no. 7 regardless of not having a really important win since 2018. There’s a number of goofiness round this stuff. Virtually by definition, pound-for-pound rankings are nonsense, however if you throw within the mixed-up experience of boxing media, P4P is assured rubbish.
Yeah, I didn’t get that $2500 purse bid win both. For an IBF flyweight title eliminator between two former world champs, Cristofer Rosales and Felix Alvarado, it was insulting. Basically, these guys, in the event that they undergo with the bout, shall be preventing without spending a dime or, as you stated, paying out of pocket for the privilege of competing. Simply as insulting was the truth that there was just one bid made on the battle, from MP Promotions/M&R Boxing, regardless of Rosales being promoted by Matchroom Boxing.
Reality and What Doesn’t Ring True
Paul,
Man, I actually get pleasure from studying the stuff that you just put out on Fighthype. I can see why you’re not mainstream. You place the reality out and the boxing institution is barely within the run of the mill nonsense that they printed on a regular basis. For instance: The Ring belt and rankings are handled like gospel, when the Ring Journal is owned by Oscar de la Hoya. I can’t think about a boxing promoter not placing his fingerprints on any enterprise that he owns, particularly contemplating how honorable and trustworthy boxing promoters are. As a brother from Detroit dwelling in central Mexico (Hidalgo) ( lengthy story) it’s cool to examine my favourite sport with out the fluff.
– Emory
Hey Emory.
Thanks for the type phrases. I attempt to preserve issues honest– intellectually and emotionally. That strategy just isn’t standard with my “colleagues” and it’s led to them just about blackballing me from the mainstream boxing discourse. Fortunately, Combat Hype has balls and wasn’t afraid to carry me aboard with full artistic management. So, the boxing world is caught with me for the lengthy haul.
Ring Journal/RingTV has prostituted itself so many instances that they could be unsalvageable. The present editor-in-chief (that good older girl with the ponytail) and her cronies operating that scorching mess characterize the worst Ring Journal crew the rag has ever had– and that’s saying so much! No one ought to take what’s written over there with any diploma of seriousness. There are a few first rate individuals at The Ring/RingTV, but it surely’s not sufficient to drag them from that nosedive. They’re deeply compromised as, primarily, public relations branches for Golden Boy and DAZN and they’re being led into the abyss by an editor-in-chief who wields some oddly obsessive, psychologically puzzling agendas. They should sandblast that complete place clear and begin over in the event that they ever wish to be a spot that serves any form of objective to the game and its followers.
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