Each Thursday, FightHype makes some house amongst its video content material to host boxing’s most NSFW mail bag column– Mine. On this week’s Sack, I tackle feedback/questions concerning Garcia-Haney 2, The Garcia-Haney double-header, and Beterbiev-Bivol 2.
Garcia-Rolly, Haney-Ramirez
Hello Paul.
Simply needed your ideas on the introduced fights for Might. Ryan Garcia vs. Rolly Romero and Devin Haney vs. Jose Ramirez, with the winners (presumably Garcia and Ramirez) preventing each other later within the yr. I don’t assume both battle is nice by itself and even Garcia-Haney 2 doesn’t actually seize my consideration. What are your ideas on all of this?
– Carlos
Hey Carlos.
First, what a thumb-in-the-eye insult that the US will get the tune-ups and preludes whereas Saudi Arabia will get the winners bracket– with fights that includes American fighters! That, proper there, ought to let you know every little thing about this Saudi plan for boxing. Turki and his gobblers need the American market, which has all of the precise fan base, to assist construct the Garcia-Haney 2 product for a Saudi showcase. They know that they want that enhance they usually additionally assume that we’re silly sufficient to provide them that piggyback journey, thereby setting the stage for us perpetually constructing occasions for them to cash-in on. And, ridiculously, US boxing followers appear to be comfortable to have the scraps tossed at their toes, cucked into submission with hardly any effort in any respect. Oh effectively…
As for the fights?
Garcia will homicide Rolly, perhaps actually. Garcia is an insufferable shit-head, however he nonetheless has in his possession one in every of boxing’s greatest one-punch weapons– that rocket-like left hand. It was sufficient to beat Devin Haney in a bout the place he was under-trained and simply regarded usually sloppy as fuck and it’ll be greater than sufficient to decapitate the defensively inept Rolly. It’ll be over very early. Now, if Ryan had fought Pitbull Cruz? That will have been a special story.
As for Haney-Ramirez?
Haney shall be favored to win, however I’m giving Ramirez far more of an opportunity than I might’ve given him final yr, earlier than Haney was humiliated by Garcia. Haney’s confidence shall be wobbly and Ramirez, regardless of being previous his prime, can nonetheless come ahead and apply strain. I wouldn’t be stunned in any respect if Ramirez took this one. Really, proper now, I’ll exit on a limb and say that that is fairly rattling near being a 50-50 battle.
If Garcia and Haney each win and transfer to a rematch? Garcia will win once more and the present will do even poorer numbers than the primary time.
Nonetheless, I wouldn’t be stunned in any respect if Garcia fucks issues up for this complete state of affairs by doing one thing to kill the proposed Might battle.
Ring Journal Boxing?
Paul.
So, Ring Journal is a promoter now. Turki says they’re placing on playing cards and there are a pair already introduced. How will all this work? It simply looks as if a huge battle of curiosity.
– Damon
Hey Damon.
Effectively, what can I say that I didn’t already say on this previous Monday’s Notes from the Boxing Underground column? Ring Journal has been a deeply compromised embarrassment for a really very long time already, however their Turki period will take that embarrassment to new heights.
What a shocker that the Saudis don’t fairly grasp the idea of journalism!
With Ring Journal serving as a de facto promoter, it’s now official that each author working for them is a publicist (though you would’ve known as most of them publicists effectively earlier than Turki purchased them off).
As I wrote on Monday:
“Within the coming months, as said by Alalshikh himself, the aim is for Ring Journal to grow to be a de facto promoter, sponsoring boxing occasions which his employees will then cowl, glowingly. We already see them promoting the shit out of a cynical Conor Benn-Chris Eubank Jr. pairing (Per Idec: It “ought to fulfill boxing followers far and extensive”) and bukkake-basting Turki from all angles, always.
Issues will worsen as these Ring Journal/Turki/Saudi exhibits roll out and it turns into crucial for Ring employees to promote the occasions and their fake rankings/titles like their jobs depend upon it (they’ll).
Sustaining ethical/moral excessive floor through the days of the Oscar De La Hoya-owned Ring Journal was powerful, however writers have been fortunate that Oscar was wildly disinterested in mundane office-level supervision. Beneath Turki, these folks shall be made to place out, just like the you-know-whats that they’re.”
If you happen to’re a journalist (or somebody who values journalism), this can be a sack of piping-hot canine diarrhea.
Beterbiev-Bivol 2 and Past
Hey Magno.
How do you see the Beterbiev-Bivol rematch going? The primary one was actually shut, with Beterbiev only a whisker forward for my part. His aggression and more durable punching might result in one other factors victory this second time. If he does win, what do you see sooner or later for him, the winner of Benavidez-Morrell?
– Gregor P.
Hey Gregor.
It was an in depth fight– that I believed Bivol gained. My boxing enterprise sense tells me that “they” will discover a technique to have Bivol win this time and pressure a rubber match. However, who is aware of, boxing logic has been turned on its head. I feel there’s a large path there for Bivol to win. A bit extra exercise within the first battle would’ve gotten him the nod. However I additionally noticed a little bit of intimidation in his eyes in the direction of the tip of the primary battle, which leads me to imagine that he’ll be even much less daring within the rematch.
Whoever wins, I wouldn’t maintain my breath on him going through the winner of Benavidez-Morrell subsequent. It SHOULD occur. It MIGHT occur. However there’s a lot that might fall of the rails between at times.
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