This Thursday, like each Thursday, I ask you to drag up a seat alongside my bulging, bulbous sack and watch me shoot a load of gooey, salty fact proper into the faces of boxing’s purveyors of ignorance. This week, we’ve got questions/feedback concerning Dana White in boxing, PBC, and Devin Haney.
Dana White in Boxing?
Hello Paul.
Thanks in your continued nice work.
What are your ideas on Dana White’s newest point out of an incursion into professional boxing. Is that this time for actual?
With assist from Turki and the Saudi’s, a mentioned fighter league (much like the UFC mannequin), an curiosity in fighters like Callum Walsh and streaming instruments like UFC Struggle Go White appears to have some items in place to maneuver ahead.
Or is that this simply extra scorching air?
Take care.
– John
Hey John.
Thanks.
Within the eyes of Turki Alalshikh, Dana White’s largest asset is Dana White, himself. I believe the pseudo powerful man picture and the bullying over his fighters, conserving them of their place, is what appeals to a man like Alalshikh. If the Saudis are to go forward with their plan and wrangle a bunch of unruly boxing individuals right into a binding, no-escape league, they’ll want a strongman– a strongman who’s a little bit of an outsider, who doesn’t have any horses within the race, and whose solely loyalty is to the bosses. That’s White. The streaming platform and White’s marginal curiosity in a small handful of boxers will not be that vital. The Saudis may simply put collectively all of the instruments and incidentals and I believe Alalshikh has already expressed his curiosity in making DAZN the printed platform for his plans. However White’s dictatorial, labor-busting repute, alongside along with his excessive profile, is what makes him a super entrance man for the Saudi boxing efforts.
PBC, Not Prepared for Prime Time?
Hello Magno.
I do know I’m not the one one who’s declaring that PBC’s run on Amazon Prime has been whole trash. I’m not a PBC hater, I’m only a boxing fan of 40 years who needs the very best fights and needs them made out there to me at a good worth. I don’t care in any respect about who’s producing the exhibits. PBC has been terrible and this Gervonta Davis vs. Lamont Roach battle introduced is rubbish. To this point of their Amazon Prime deal, they haven’t placed on one battle I’d pay to see and so they clearly don’t plan on placing out something well worth the cash within the speedy future both. I could be okay with their exhibits in the event that they weren’t all PPVs, however placing all that junk on PPV is insulting. It does make my resolution to not watch simpler, although.
What’s your opinion of PBC on Amazon Prime thus far and do you see it getting any higher?
– Dennis from Dallas
Hello Dennis.
PBC on Prime hasn’t been excellent. Yeah, there have been some good fights on the 4 playing cards PBC has finished thus far and we’re lastly going to get a “free” card on October 19 when Tim Tszyu fights for Bakhram Murtazaliev’s IBF junior middleweight title. There’s additionally been some star energy on show as Canelo has fought twice and there was a Gervonta Davis/David Benavidez double function. However, as an entire, the product has been subpar, particularly for a pay-per-view product.
There seems to be some organizational points inside the corporate with, reportedly, Al Haymon being out of the image for a bit tending to non-public points. Within the time between Showtime Boxing shutting down and the Prime deal kicking off, there was a number of uncertainty and so they obtained their asses kicked within the space of public relations, as on-line rumor mongers and weirdo anti-PBC tradition warriors had their manner with the corporate’s repute. For no matter motive, PBC execs refused to fireside again in opposition to the strategically planted tales of their demise. And though the critics have had them dying since earlier than they even started in 2015, this time, in between broadcast offers, the tales appeared to hold some extent of legitimacy. Seeing inactive PBC fighters signal offers with non-PBC promoters and battle on different, non-PBC, playing cards made the “they’re dying” buzz far more credible.
When the Prime exhibits formally started, they appeared empty, like one-shot specials in a world not meant for them and nearly buried inside the huge Amazon Prime universe. Perhaps having extra shows– extra FREE shows– will change that feeling and make it appear extra like PBC exists contained in the boxing world once more. Proper now, although, it doesn’t price that manner. The telecasts have been technically superior and a few of the fights have been excellent, however there’s one thing lacking there.
All of it begins and stops with the matchmaking, although. Placing on good major occasions well worth the followers’ money and time is the cure-all. Proper now, we’re not getting that and Tank Davis-Lamont Roach is a major instance (no pun meant).
I actually don’t know if I see issues getting any higher. They want extra exhibits and so they want to return to constructing their very own fighters on these exhibits. As of proper now, I don’t see something from them apart from leaked rumors to pick media of massive, constructive issues taking place sooner or later.
Is Devin Haney Completed?
Hello Paul.
From the skin wanting in, Devin Haney’s lawsuit in opposition to Ryan Garcia appears to be like like a determined transfer to refill his checking account and an admission that Haney is trying to money out. That’s how I see it anyway. Will Haney be capable of come again from that Ryan Garcia mess or is he psychologically finished?
–Luis
Hey Luis.
I’ve gotten just a few variations of this query for the reason that Haney-Garcia battle and I’ve talked about it earlier than, however I believe it’s going to be very exhausting for Haney to essentially and really come again from this battle. He was just about publicly depantsed by a man who didn’t take the battle critically, seemed sloppy as fuck in spots, and who nearly everybody (together with Devin and his workforce) assumed can be dominated. Neglect that the end result was reversed, that was a humiliating outing and there shall be important psychological scarring from this. Haney was using excessive coming into the Garcia battle and he obtained introduced right down to earth exhausting. That was past humbling and it’s going to take some cautious rebuilding to recover from what occurred that evening. Bodily, Haney shall be positive for a comeback, however the actual harm was inside the child’s head. The lawsuit could also be a technique to attempt to pad his checking account, however I believe it’s extra an effort to additional get that “Garcia cheated, that’s why he beat me up” narrative flowing inside Devin’s head so he can get his thoughts proper for a comeback.
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