Hi there combat followers and welcome to a different Thursday gathered round my bulging sack, ready on my weekly load of gooey, salty reality. This week, we have now questions/feedback concerning Saudi boxing plans, Deontay Wilder, and stolen concepts.
Lower-Charge Turki Sub?
What’s good P Magazine?
Hope all is effectively with you and the household. A pair issues in regards to the Saudis. First, Turki made headlines by saying he’s going to drop PPV costs drastically. The upcoming Bivol/Beterbiev combat will likely be £20 within the UK 20 bucks for the U.S. On the entrance for followers, it looks like a good suggestion, on the again finish it’d spell bother. How does this impact fighters purses?
Secondly, every time it’s talked about that Turki is taking large monetary losses on these occasions, it’s met with “the Saudi’s print their very own cash they usually do not care loses corresponding to gate loses, PPV gross sales and so on).” How lengthy can this mannequin maintain itself realistically?
– Huge Rob.
Hey Rob.
Simply from a really fundamental economics perspective, how on the planet are you able to decrease client costs AND preserve excessive fighter pay? You possibly can’t. So, whereas the Saudis could offset the monetary losses early on of their endeavor to get a agency maintain on the game, one thing must give as soon as they really get that maintain. Most probably, given their historical past in different endeavors, they’ll drive labor (on this case, the fighters) to take pay cuts. That is straight from the Making a Monopoly 101 textbook– overspend and below cost to grab market management after which do regardless of the fuck you need as soon as you’re the solely present within the boxing city and in charge of most, if not all, the bankable fighters. That is precisely what folks get after they cry about boxing changing into extra just like the UFC. It’s a nightmare for the athletes, relative to what’s going on in different sports activities round them, and never even the followers profit all that a lot, as a result of, as soon as that monopoly is established, the costs all the time come creeping again up as a result of, effectively, there’s just one present on the town.
Folks with built-in BS detectors ought to have their alarms blaring. This is sort of a deadbeat useless promising his child an X-Field AND a Ps for Christmas. It sounds good, however who the fuck goes to pay for it?
Per my Notes from the Boxing Underground column a pair weeks again, the Saudis have been pulling again from investments which might be shedding them cash, not producing sufficient cash, and/or not assembly their nation’s particular wants. So, cash most undoubtedly issues to them. It’s preposterous to suppose that anybody, irrespective of how wealthy they’re, is okay with shedding cash indefinitely. And the individuals who discuss how the Saudis can print their very own cash, clearly don’t know how world economics work. I’m positive the Saudis will likely be tremendous with wildly devaluing their very own foreign money by printing extra, so the world can get Shakur-Zepeda, lol.
Stealing My Sack?
Greetings. What are your ideas on ESPN Boxing incorporating a “Boxing Mailbag,” seeing that you are the originator?
– Van Davis
Hey Van.
As a lot as I’d wish to take credit score for being the originator of the mailbag, the idea is an outdated one, courting again to the magazines and operating proper via the web age. The mailbag is anybody’s to take. Allow them to have at it. However, simply bear in mind, if you’d like responses not delivered by media members owned and/or sponsored by the folks they cowl, Magno’s Bulging Mail Sack is the one place to go.
However, to veer off the purpose a bit, I’ve been having concepts and full ideas ripped off from me and posted by hack writers as their very own on “main” websites for happening 17 years now. I’m used to that shit. It does beg the query, although, of why, if I’m irrelevant and never worthy of a significant platform, do they maintain stealing my stuff. Fuck ‘em.
Deontay…No…
Hey Paul.
Please inform me that the rumors I hear of Deontay Wilder returning to the ring should not true. If there was ever a spent shell, it’s Wilder. He was an entertaining fighter and I used to be a fan, however he shouldn’t be allowed wherever close to a hoop ever once more.
– Stan
Hey Stan.
There’ve been hints of an “I may be again” and experiences of a wanted surgical procedure to appropriate some boxing-related points. There’s nothing concrete, although. I agree with you, Deontay’s finished. He’s seemed completely docile in current performances and has misplaced 4 of his final five– three of these losses, brutally. He wants to maneuver on, however the cash will likely be there for him if he desires it. It’ll be arduous to show down the provides coming his manner.
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