Hey and welcome to a different Thursday version of Magno’s Bulging Mail Sack, the one boxing mailbag column penned by a author blocked by lots of your most popular web sites and media personalities. This week, we’ve feedback/questions concerning Inoue and the Saudis, Tim Tszyu: The Comeback, and PBC, RIP.
A Monster in Saudi Arabia
Hello Paul.
Love your work and, most of all, your honesty. You simply don’t get a complete lot of that in boxing media today.
Anyway, I’d like to get your ideas on Naoya Inoue signing a cope with the Saudis and what this implies to boxing. It looks as if they’re scooping up the whole lot and everybody and simply laying the groundwork to personal the game totally. What do you consider the Monster aligning with the Saudis?
Sustain the nice work.
– Dave
Hey Dave.
Truthfully, I don’t assume Inoue’s deal means a rattling factor to boxing. It solely issues to Inoue fan boys and a small subsection of boxing nerdom, however it doesn’t actually transfer the needle in any path. It’s good for Inoue and it’s good for the Saudis, within the sense that they get one other toy, however it doesn’t imply something to the massive image. Inoue could have an occasional struggle in Saudi Arabia now, however he’s not leaving Japan and the deal gained’t change the struggle selections he makes. So, actually, it’s simply costly publicity.
Tim Tszyu: The Comeback?
Hey Paul.
I’m an enormous Tim Tszyu fan and I used to be actually stunned with the way in which he bought blown out by the Russian. Seeing one thing like that actually makes you wonder if you overestimated him all alongside. Do you see a profitable comeback sooner or later for Tim? Can he overcome this setback? Or has he been uncovered as somebody not fairly nearly as good as hyped?
– Paul G.
Hey Paul.
Boxing historical past is affected by the discarded shells of as soon as mighty offensive beasts who had been humbled and, finally, tamed. It’s arduous for somebody who’s based mostly his whole identification on being a fearsome beast to return again after being dealt with. Lucas Matthysse, as an illustration, was a destroyer earlier than being taken to highschool by Danny Garcia. He was by no means the identical after that. Tszyu may very well be the exception, however there’s not a big physique of labor that even reveals him as a lot of a beast. His precise “beastdom” is restricted to a few performances and, earlier than that, there have been quite a lot of uneven performances as he got here up the ranks. So, we actually don’t know what the longer term holds and the way nicely he bounces again. My hunch, although, is that it’ll be extraordinarily troublesome to get again to the place he was. He’s going to should be matched rigorously and, even then, we’d see Tszyu settle right into a rest-of-career run as an Australian attraction combating third-tier opposition to adoring house crowds, like Danny Inexperienced or Anthony Mundine.
PBC: MIA or DOA or RIP?
Magno.
I do know you’ve been a PBC boy for a very long time, however even you need to admit now that PBC is useless, completed, finito. They aren’t even the Titanic, however extra just like the dinghy that fell off the Titanic when it bought hit by the iceberg. This has to sting as somebody who’s been carrying their water for therefore lengthy. Me, personally, I can’t wait to faucet dance on their grave and rejoice the few fighters they’ve transferring over to actual boxing firms.
– LOL
Hey LOL.
Your bizarre obsession with a boxing firm is simply barely much less shitty than your standing as a fan who roots AGAINST boxing success. However, no matter…I imagine all of us know what motivates folks such as you to go after one particular boxing firm owned by one particular kind of particular person and– [Spoiler Alert]– it ain’t boxing.
I’ve stated this earlier than and I’ll say it once more. I don’t give a rat’s ass about any particular firm or promotion and I’m not rooting for or towards any of them. Really, I hope all of them succeed– if that success is in the very best long-term curiosity of the game, after all. So, PBC’s downward flip means nothing to me. In case you’ve adopted my work, you’d know that I’ve been vital of them earlier than, when merited, and I’ve been very vital of them in latest months. So, no matter. I simply write about what occurs, I’ve no stake in the way it occurs.
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