Bust out the laborious medicines and the women of sick reputation, I’m on trip.
For one wonderful week, I cease studying the boxing media’s press releases, er, journalism and unplug from the tedium of watching dimwits and racists on social media discuss issues they, actually, don’t know something about.
However boxing by no means, ever actually leaves my thoughts. So, as I’m ready for this newest batch of medication to kick in, listed below are some random ideas relating to the remainder of this boxing yr.
Hey, did you occur to listen to that Showtime Boxing is being killed off after the top of this yr? You might need heard just a few temporary mentions of this right here and there on social media over the past a number of days.
For us followers and shoppers, the information ought to affect us little or no. The following thought after “Showtime Boxing is completed” needs to be “Okay, which channel will we now have to show to in 2024?”
For a choose few unhappy sacks, although, the demise of Showtime Boxing introduced on a wave of orgasmic pleasure. The losers with their burning case of AHDS (Al Haymon Derangement Syndrome), participating in a race/tradition struggle in opposition to all issues PBC, led by race-antagonizing boxing media slugs who’ve been on extra promoter payrolls than the Tecate women, felt vindicated by the information. “Hurray for issues we actually don’t find out about, occurring for causes we don’t actually know!”
The Haymon-in-boxing/PBC years have been a visit, although. Actually, it’s been like one gigantic sociological experiment. Take a black businessman who brings freeman enterprise philosophy to a sport constructed on indentured servitude, which additionally simply occurs to be one of many final bastions of overtly racist/classist thought within the sporting world, and let’s see what occurs!
Among the serial PBC/Haymon critics have been disturbingly obsessive about the demise of the evilness they imagined. I’m nearly comfortable the PBC-aligned Showtime Boxing DID get axed. That gentle victory of their minds could have stored them from snapping and mutilating a neighbor’s pet or beating up their mother (who most of them nonetheless reside with).
I don’t even attempt to have interaction with these folks anymore. Dumb + Loopy + Hateful makes for skulls too thick to penetrate.
Talking of penetration, kudos to Victor Conte publication author Steve Kim for type of spearheading this sociological flip in boxing, injecting race and tradition warfare, together with weirdo proper wing politics, into the game and endlessly muddying the waters of public discourse. Now, thanks in nice half to his landmark innovation in girlish hating and his skill to trick hateful dimwits into using alongside on the hate wagon, we received human skid marks from each side of the fence going at it– in an equal and reverse silly response dynamic– with precise boxing discuss taking a again seat to us vs. them bickering. What a legacy!
– I don’t care what number of “actual” boxing followers and “purists” get mad at me for saying this, however I hope Francis Ngannou manages to land one thing massive and out of the blue on October 28 to drop and cease Tyson Fury. I don’t want Fury any lasting bodily hurt, I simply need him to lose. As a result of, solely by way of a mega-humbling loss, will the Tyson Fury Present finish and we will all regain some sanity relating to the pure circulation of the heavyweight division. I do know we’re SUPPOSED to be getting the Fury-Usyk unification after this coming sideshow with Ngannou, however I’ll imagine that after I see it. Fury must get again right down to earth and again to precise boxing. The one approach for that to occur, IMO, is through excruciating embarrassment.
– Shakur Stevenson has not been shy about saying that he’ll discover free company to the fullest extent when his contract is up with Prime Rank subsequent yr. He’d be loopy to not. I’m simply questioning if all these folks parroting Prime Rank “most feared man” and “better of the most effective” speaking factors will nonetheless be doing that when he’s on the open market, exploring offers with Prime Rank enterprise rivals. I’m guessing not.
– Prime Rank bossman Bob Arum is an absolute genius relating to interesting to the hearts and minds of boxing media and fuddy-duddy battle followers. The person has been pulling the identical hustles and cons for 50 years and these folks fall for them time and again. Essentially the most feared man…The “the NEXT battle goes to be the one you’ve been clamoring for” bait and change…The “the opposite man is the one avoiding the battle with my man” redirection…The “trample on my fighter’s repute and perhaps get him beat as his contract expires as a result of it doesn’t seem that he’ll re-sign” exit plan. Arum’s Biggest Hits by no means get outdated to sure individuals who, by the best way, usually wish to boast about how nice they’re at being “on to” the hustles and cons of different boxing folks.
I’m not “taking sides” when saying this, by the best way. All boxing bossmen have their hustles and cons relating to doing enterprise and hyping fights. It’s simply that solely a few of these folks get referred to as out for them, whereas others get the free go.
– Are the David Benavidez-Demetrius Andrade, Devin Haney-Regis Prograis, Keith Thurman-Eimantas Stanionis/Erislandy Lara-Danny Garcia pay-per-view reveals value their pay-per-view value? My reply is all the time the identical with “is that this present value it” questions– they’re definitely worth the value if you wish to pay the worth.
There are factors to be made when folks say that erecting paywalls round fights caps the game’s progress potential. However, realistically, relating to boxing’s progress potential, that ship sailed a very long time in the past, most likely from the primary second guys like Arum took simple cash to place all their reveals behind premium cable paywalls.
I do bear in mind, although, the identical followers and media who now bemoan “all the pieces being on pay-per-view” additionally mocking a sure boxing firm once they tried placing fights on free TV..
Effectively, that’s it for now. Gotta get again to the debauchery. See y’all subsequent week…if I survive.
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