Welcome to a different Thursday right here at FightHype, AKA La Résistance, one of many few holdouts in a dystopian boxing world the place everybody’s greedy at Saudi Turki bucks and keen to offer away all the things to get them. Effectively, all I’m keen to offer away is a couple of quart of gooey, salty fact from the depths of my bulging Sack, proper within the eye of boxing’s unhealthy guys. So, yeah…This week, we now have questions/feedback concerning Turki/The Saudis/TKO/Dana White and the Tank-Roach (non) determination.
Can Turki/Saudi/TKO League/Promotion Work?
Hey Paul, I respect your work and love your writing. I do know we’re early, what’s your opinion of the idea of a boxing league like we’re listening to with Dana White, Turki Alalshikh and TKO promotion? Other than the Saudi shadow, can a boxing promotional league work in your opinion? I do know we now have seen it efficiently in different fight sports activities like Crew Fight League, UFC, BKFC, and so forth. however this appears harder to place collectively excessive degree boxers who’re signed already to promoters, managers, consultants and advisers. Thanks for all you do.
– Geoff
Hay Geoff.
Thanks for the type phrases and thanks for studying.
From what I’ve been studying and listening to, Dana and co. try to stroll again the “league” concept and emphasize that they’re simply speaking about being a promotional firm. I can’t blame them as a result of, proper now, in the event that they have been to place collectively an precise league that runs like a league, it might make them look like a small-time operation.
Given community and promotional entanglements, there can be lots of prime expertise not noted and, out of necessity, they’d must function with second and third-tier expertise, with only a few first-tier guys thrown in.
Normally, it’s going to be powerful to do lots of what Turki/Dana/TKO say they need to do, even with Saudi cash behind them. The thought of going again to the unique 9 weight lessons and ditching the sanctioning our bodies is pie within the sky stuff, particularly as promoters and the alphabets begin to understand that they’re being pushed out the door for good. What we’ll find yourself having is 2 divided factions with either side enjoying beneath totally different guidelines. It’ll be an even bigger mess than it’s now.
I believe they’ll understand that quickly sufficient and, somewhat than attempt to reinvent the wheel, they’ll simply content material themselves with being an ordinary promotional firm.
The Actual Takeover
Magno.
Mad respect to you, you’ve been the one boxing author on the market telling the reality and breaking down the place all this Turki takeover goes. You’ve been proper from day one. Turki and the royal household have come for the game and so they’re utilizing Dana White to do the soiled work for the following half, in all probability the place they run out of enterprise all these promoters and organizations who helped them, similar to you mentioned on this week’s Notes from the Boxing Underground.
My query to you is what is going to these folks do to combat again or will they only roll over and go away? What’s subsequent on this drama?
– Ok.L Lee
Hey Ok.L.
I believe the intuition with these guys will likely be to diplomatically play alongside, hoping to ingratiate themselves with this new world boxing order. Let’s be trustworthy right here. These people– the promoters, sanctioning bodies– are grifters and all they know tips on how to do is hustle for cash.
Then, after they understand that Turki/The Saudis/TKO/Dana are simply trying to personal all the things for themselves, they’ll lastly put up a combat. However will or not it’s too late? That’s the query. The promoters have let Turki work straight with their fighters and even matchmake for them. It’s like permitting a virus into your laptop system, letting it develop and corrupt packages for months, after which making an attempt to take a seat down and use that laptop once more.
There are a lot of causes the Saudi involvement in boxing is a damaging (as I’ve been mentioning for a protracted, very long time), however the institution boxing folks have additionally been a damaging for the game. Nevertheless, if I’ve to decide on between the 2, I’ll aspect with the institution, particularly if the Saudi push to take over makes them understand that they really must run the game like one thing they care about cultivating.
Tank-Roach Stays a Draw
Hey Paul.
Not surprisingly, the New York fee determined to not overturn the Gervonta Davis-Lamont Roach determination. Simply what we wanted, one other black eye for boxing. I wasn’t holding out hope that the fee would do the appropriate factor, I simply hate that I used to be proper (once more) about this sport being rotten and corrupt. What do you consider his all this got here down?
– Anthony
Hey Anthony.
There’s little doubt about it. Lamont Roach ought to’ve received that night time. He needs to be the WBA light-weight champ proper now. It’s at all times a travesty when the unsuitable determination is handed out and the rightful winner has to go away with a loss (or a draw on this case). However as soon as that draw was introduced, the die was solid. It was by no means going to be overturned, at the very least not for what will be labeled as an official’s judgment name.
And whereas I at all times need justice served, I’m not enraged concerning the NYSAC’s lack of motion. The shitty name and the unfair draw should stand, within the identify of the higher good. Now, hear me out. Are you able to think about the precedent it might set if commissions might return and “repair” outcomes of fights after the actual fact, on the request of a fighter/supervisor/promoter? It could be a multitude. Taking a win from a PEDs cheat is straightforward and clear. Messing with judgment calls from the referee or judges is an actual slippery slope.
It sucks for Roach, however I believe the closest he will get to justice for that debacle of an end result is a big-money rematch and a second likelihood to show himself.
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