Hi there boxing followers and devoted haters. Right here’s one other week’s price of my bulbous sack, bulging with gooey, salty fact, in your face. Get pleasure from. This week, now we have feedback/questions relating to High Rank, Canelo-Crawford logistics, competing playing cards, and Jaime Munguia’s soiled take a look at.
High Rank/Canelo-Crawford Logistics/Competing Playing cards
Hello Paul.
I belief this finds you doing effectively.
A few ideas as Boxing strikes into its summer season season.
– What’s your tackle High Rank’s seeming struggles to discover a media outlet for his or her Boxing programming? Are they overvaluing the product or holding out for an announcement later this summer season. My understanding is that their contract with ESPN expires on the finish of July?
– There appears to be some blended messages within the rollout and announcement of Canelo-Crawford. Who plans the promotional and organizational methods for Turki and the Saudis? Have they got a plan? Or do they only throw round cash in every single place?
– Why schedule dueling occasions on July 19 and August 16? Should followers pay for Usyk-Dubois and Manny-Barrios on July 19 and Tank-Roach and Teo-Haney on Aug. 16? Loopy stuff.
Thanks and take care.
– John
Hey John.
I’ll sort out these so as:
– Yeah, ESPN is completed with High Rank and their contract with them is over this summer season. There’s wildly conflicting info floating round relating to the place the Bob Arum firm could land. Some are saying that they’ll’t discover a broadcast companion. A current report got here out saying that, per Arum, there’s a deal in place which can see them placed on as much as 40 exhibits a 12 months through three separate retailers. So, who is aware of?
Personally, I lean in direction of the latter greater than the previous, simply because I discover it exhausting to consider that with so many content-starved streaming companies, there wouldn’t be at the least one sucker, er, purchaser. The “three separate retailers” half, nevertheless, leads me to consider that the published preparations should not very large or profitable. In any case, would a severe powerhouse broadcaster providing a powerhouse deal be okay with sharing their acquisition with two different retailers?
Both manner, we should always know quickly sufficient about High Rank’s plans.
– Effectively, it certain appears as if the one plan happening over there in Turkiland facilities round Turki Alalshikh appearing out on his naive whims and the sure males round him agreeing that his each transfer is genius.
As of proper now, Turki has snatched the promotion from TKO Group and is conserving it Saudi-centric. The September 13 date has been secured, however not the situation or the venue. Not having a clearly-defined promoter is a boxing nerd/media lament, however not realizing the place the precise struggle goes to be looks like a very large deal. It’s the start of June, however followers have to know fairly quickly the place the struggle shall be, to allow them to truly make plans to journey there.
And that is considered one of many issues with the Saudi boxing takeover. Turki and his individuals don’t appear tuned in, in any respect, relating to the desires, wants, and requirements of the followers (the customers). This Canelo-Crawford procrastination is tone deaf in the identical manner that having three pay-per-views within the span of eight days was tone deaf. It’s tone deaf in the identical manner that having a NY Instances Sq. card, however fencing it off solely so solely 300 VIPs might attend, was tone deaf. It’s as if this enterprise is being run for the only real enjoyment of 1 person– Turki– and with out regard to truly turning a revenue or making the enterprise long-term sustainable. And that would very effectively be the case.
The Saudi cash will purchase quite a lot of deference and, apparently, a transparent path to do regardless of the hell they need within the quick time period. However that cash is nowhere close to as sturdy or as limitless as individuals have been result in consider. In some unspecified time in the future their boxing enterprise should function like a enterprise. They’ll have to show earnings and truly care in regards to the customers past the present Turki-think of “Hey, take a look at this factor I purchased, how cool am I?” That’s the place they may flounder and fall as a result of the person in cost (Turki) is an impetuous man-child who has zero tolerance for anybody telling him something he prefers to not hear.
– Boxing is silly and self-destructive. What else is there to say? Staging competing large ticket occasions on the identical day– usually on the identical time– makes completely no sense. This sport is silly to the purpose of being a misplaced trigger. It’s completely superb that we haven’t run ourselves into oblivion, though we certain appear to be making an effort to take action presently.
Jaime Munguia Pops Soiled
Hey Magno.
What a shock that Jaime Munguia begins coaching with Eddy Reynoso and he all of a sudden comes up soiled for PEDs! Folks needs to be speaking about this will greater than they’re and by that I imply media needs to be speaking about it, in addition to commissions and sanctioning organizations as a result of the followers have been throughout this.
– Steven M.
Hey Steven.
I mentioned this lately on Twitter, however truthfully, I am extra stunned when fighters DON’T take a look at optimistic for one thing. You’d should be terminally naive to suppose that probably the most poorly regulated “actual” sport, the place the majority of the intense PEDs testing is performed on a voluntary foundation based on the whims and circumstances of the fighters and promoters, isn’t brimming with juiced up athletes.
Whether or not Munguia is a cheat or Reynoso is complicit in his fighters’ soiled assessments is irrelevant. The problem is that boxing isn’t severe about antidoping measures and by no means has been. There was a degree, across the preliminary Mayweather-Pacquiao discussions, the place the time could have been proper for a severe run at true PEDs testing. However insiders with a vested curiosity in not having actual testing performed sure media members like suckers, altering the path of the general public discourse and, thereby, main the way in which to the ridiculous concept that voluntary extra testing was the correct option to go.
Now, with the children basically operating the proverbial sweet store by dealing with a lot of their very own testing, there’s no option to actually know who’s soiled and who’s not.
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