On this nook of the Universo Pugilistico, it is all about my sack– my bulging, bulbous, aching sack– and the gooey, salty fact contained inside. So…sit again, shut your eyes, pull again your hair, and prepare for this week’s cash shot of knowledge. This week now we have feedback/questions concerning Tank Davis, Tank/Floyd/PBC beef, the UFC, and Pay-Per-Every little thing
Tank, Floyd, And many others…
Hey Paul,
Remark – First, I wish to say that final Saturday night time’s card was stacked and fairly entertaining so far as PPV playing cards go. Secondly, Tank Davis is an issue! Every of his fights I see just a little one thing completely different. Most of us followers are impressed by his energy, however his ring IQ is soooooo underrated. And he is fought so many kinds. He all the time appear to be calm and relaxed irrespective of how a lot warmth is being thrown at him, ready for the right alternative to counter or assault. Pit Bull gave him a reasonably good scrap, and Shakur primarily based on his boxing abilities might pose just a few moments, however I actually do not see anybody competing with him in or round his weight.
Query – Behind the scene there seems to be one thing happening between PBC (Al Haymon), Floyd, Leonard and Tank that has not come out but. Just lately there was a number of trash speak, accusations, restructuring, and flat out trolling.
What’s your take?
– Reggie Cannon
Hey Reggie.
I utterly agree along with your feedback. As I wrote on Monday, Tank is particular. He brings that savvy boxing intuition and bettering ring IQ and than throws in a real killer intuition behind it. Anybody diminishing his accomplishments is both an fool or somebody driving a weirdo anti-Tank agenda. I don’t see anybody at 135 beating him and solely perhaps two individuals even giving him some problems.
As to your query…I feel a number of the meat we see on social media and see percolating within the enterprise enviornment is as a consequence of Floyd Mayweather’s ego. That’s simply my utterly uniformed, not-so-educated guess. There can also be some mandatory restructuring inside all of their enterprise pursuits. In the long term, I don’t assume something actually modifications for any of them.
A Counter to My UFC Declare
Hello Paul,
Glad to see you continue to on the market persevering with to pump out good work and preserving individuals accountable.
Concerning your Notes printed on the seventeenth, I do not disagree with nearly all of what you wrote. I feel lots of your apprehensions in regards to the potential Saudi takeover of boxing may result in plenty of points.
One factor I feel you might be incorrect about nonetheless is that this line: “one the place the identical names are shuffled round many times and incoming new expertise is of diminished high quality as a result of, beneath the UFC, the expertise is coming from strip mall dojos and from no matter may very well be stolen from very secondary MMA firms.” (emphasis added)
I feel this level is demonstrably false. Whereas I am undoubtedly a boxing man first, I observe the UFC reasonably carefully and am near individuals who observe it extraordinarily carefully. The expertise degree within the UFC has by no means been greater and that is seen most vividly within the new expertise. Lots of the individuals outdoors of the highest 10, together with a number of individuals with a restricted variety of skilled fights, would run circles round champions from simply 10-15 years in the past. It is because the game has developed a lot in a brief time period.
One instance of that is the brand new coaching program positioned close to the Penn State campus. Penn State wrestling, which has gained 11 staff nationwide championships since 2011, and is the host of among the finest nationwide staff members, now has connections to that MMA coaching facility constructed proper subsequent door. Since wrestling might be the most effective beginning background for somebody getting into MMA, and there is a giant inflow of former top-level wrestlers getting into the game (within the early days of the UFC, it was wrestlers from D2&3 guys dominating the Octagon), I do not assume it may be pretty stated that within the UFC the “incoming expertise is of diminished high quality.”
Thanks once more to your work and carry on rockin’.
– Jeremiah Davis
Hey Jeremiah.
I’m not a UFC/MMA man. I used to be simply going by the unanimous laments of each UFC/MMA man I do know that the product is diminished lately and that actual breakthrough stars have been a lot more durable to return by. I may very well be fallacious. However the “UFC mannequin” because it’s manifested by way of the proposed Saudi boxing league would undoubtedly result in a diminished high quality of the product. There’d be little-to-no “minor leagues” for growth and no actual probability for any of the younger stars to face a fringe Prime 10 or Prime 15 man to enhance his sport on the best way up. I’m not conscious of any actual developmental proving floor for UFC fighters, the place they’ll face some UFC-level guys in precise fight as they develop and develop, honing their abilities towards high-end fighters earlier than hitting the highest tier. Possibly I’m simply not conscious of that, although. Boxing, nonetheless, does have that developmental construction in place. It wouldn’t have a lot of that underneath the Saudi proposal.
Pay-Per-Every little thing (Revisited)
Hello, Paul, as all the time wishing you and your loved ones the most effective!!! Completely agree along with your article concerning PPV, in my case, despite the fact that I think about myself to be a hardcore boxing fan, I’ve discovered to pay just for the largest fights on PPV. I’m completely superb with watching the highlights or any youtube video of some other combat posted the subsequent day. To date, this 12 months I’ve solely paid for 2 pay-per-views. The subsequent one would be the Crawford combat in August, the entire card pursuits me. So far as subscription, I’m superb with the ESPN Plus value, and subscribe to DAZN primarily based on the fights. For instance, I’ll subscribe to DAZN, June 15, 2024 and cancel the subsequent day. That may enable me to look at Matias vs Paro, Bam Bam vs Estrada and Jarron Ennis for the value of 1 month. Most likely will not subscribe until the top of the 12 months if one thing pursuits me. By the best way, the three fights that had me hyped throughout the first half of this 12 months was Beterbiev vs Bivol, that was ESPN Plus, Amanda Serrano vs Taylor, on Netflix and Virgil Ortiz Vs Tzyu, simply my luck that each one of those fights have been both postponed or cancelled. That’s boxing!! Take care.
– Benjamin from Puerto Rico.
Hey Benjamin.
Shoppers will likely be customers. We are going to decide and select what’s of worth to us primarily based on value and high quality of content material. Boxing followers are savvy in that regard, as you’ve simply proven. Sadly, if the die-hards are selecting to cross on many– of not most– exhibits, that signifies that the not-so-die-hards and curious casuals are most likely not shopping for into a lot of something. How can we construct a fan base for the longer term if all of our greatest fights and fighters are behind paywalls? This sport is paying its payments by promoting off its furnishings and there’ll come day the place nothing is left however an empty home. We have to construct for the longer term, however I don’t see anybody actually attempting. I simply see lots of people grabbing at pennies on the expense of future dimes.
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