Welcome to a particular Thanksgiving version of Magno’s Bulging Mail Sack the place boxing’s unhealthy guys are pressured to gobble, gobble on the gooey, salty, cranberry-infused reality coming straight from my bloated sack of giblets. This week we’ve got feedback/questions concerning Ryan Garcia’s exhibition, boxing’s transfer to Saudi Arabia, and my private comfortable boxing moments.
Movin’ to Saudi Arabia
What’s good P Magazine?
Completely satisfied Thanksgiving brotha to you and your loved ones. It appears that evidently large fights are steadily shifting to Saudi Arabia and fewer in every single place else. Loads of followers appear okay with this so long as we get as they put it “we get good fights”. What are you your ideas?
– Rob
Hey Rob.
They’re SAYING they’re okay with it. Their actions, although, don’t present their happiness with “getting good fights” beneath these phrases and situations. Pay-per-view gross sales for these Saudi reveals have been weak. Boxing web site visitors has been dropping immensely, indicating a shrinking quantity of curiosity. Even social media trending numbers are down.
The reality of the matter is that boxing followers need good fights, however additionally they need their fights at a handy time of the day, in an thrilling atmosphere, and on reveals which might be truly participating. Additionally they need to have the ability to exit and see a giant struggle in individual sometimes. The Saudis aren’t delivering any of that. Boxing followers eat their product on a way more private degree than different sports activities followers do. They’ve a private connections with the fighters and the matchups. The game being pulled from the fan base is taking the lifeblood from the American boxing scene and all knowledge is displaying that, even when the bought-off press and a few vocal followers are telling the precise reverse story.
I don’t see anyone ecstatic about tuning right into a present at 11 am on a Saturday, sitting by hours of filler across the matches, after which seeing the fights in a sterile, lifeless enviornment that has about as a lot power as a university Humanities 101 lecture corridor. Golden Boy’s current Latino Evening card, for instance, would’ve been rocking an enviornment laborious in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. In Saudi Arabia, it got here off as a pandemic present with cardboard cutouts within the crowd. That form of stuff DOES matter to followers, even when they don’t vocalize it (and even consciously notice it). The shortage of buzz for that usually good card ought to’ve been eye-opening on the subject of the perils of eradicating fan power from a sport that’s basically constructed ON fan power.
In an 8-month span between the Tank Davis/David Benavidez twin invoice this previous June and the Benavidez-Morrell card in February, the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson card will go down as the one main boxing occasion on US soil by an American promoter. That form of stagnation is pure demise. It’s a gradual necrosis in boxing’s limbs, headed in direction of its trunk.
What’s misplaced on this orgy of instantaneous Saudi boxing gratification is the truth that that is very a lot a takeover of the game for the Saudis’ personal functions. It’s a transfer to personal boxing and make it their very own private sport for exhibition in their very own land. These high-profile fights being made and the cash dished out to boxing business individuals are simply the lures to attract us to the hooks. I’ve been making my case on this challenge for awhile now, and just about getting nowhere. However folks can learn my case towards a Saudi-run boxing on this previous Monday’s Notes from the Boxing Underground column proper right here at FightHype.
Ryan Garcia, The Comeback Earlier than The Comeback
Hey Magno.
I simply noticed the place Ryan Garcia is returning to the ring in an exhibition in Japan, towards the man who did fairly properly towards Manny Pacquiao in an exhibition. I’m no professional on the subject of the politics and enforcement of guidelines and rules, however wouldn’t this be a violation of his suspension for PEDs use? It doesn’t matter who would win this exhibition, however do you see somebody stepping in to cease the struggle earlier than it even occurs?
– John
Hey John.
If I had been king of boxing, this exhibition stunt by Garcia would price him one other 12 months of suspension. In fact, he’s giving a giant center finger to the NYSAC and to boxing regulation generally by creating wealth fighting– throughout a suspension for a violation he by no means actually accepted accountability for, by the best way.
From the newest information, nevertheless, it appears as if Golden Boy could put the kibosh on Garcia’s exhibition. Oscar De La Hoya launched a social media assertion on Tuesday saying that his firm owns unique rights to all Ryan Garcia fights and that this one will not be Golden Boy-authorized and, due to this fact, will not be one thing that might be occurring. This will change if Oscar will get his beak moist from the occasion organizers in Japan. However, as of proper now, I’d say this exhibition isn’t a positive factor to occur by any means.
P.S, My dislike for Devin Haney grows each day for not eliminating this dip shit.
Heat, Fuzzies
Hello Paul.
Completely satisfied Thanksgiving to you and yours. Right here’s a vacation softball to your mail sack.
What’s your happiest boxing reminiscence?
Take care. You’re appreciated.
– The Cincy Child
Hey Cincy Child.
I might get deeply cynical with this and say that I used to be by no means fairly as boxing-happy as when Yori Boy Campas beat the snot out of Tony Ayala Jr. and made him give up.
However I’ll go heat and fuzzy right here and say that I’ll most likely by no means be as comfortable and content material with a boxing product as I used to be watching Struggle Evening on the Discussion board and HBO’s Boxing After Darkish within the 90s. These reveals will at all times be comfortable locations in my boxing mind. Different comfortable boxing reminiscences focus on my private involvement within the sport– getting fighters paid their promised purses as a supervisor and, as a coach, watching youngsters grow to be assured, basically respectable human beings beneath my watch.
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