Each Thursday, FightHype makes some area 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 Could. 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 suppose both struggle 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 part 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 suppose that we’re silly sufficient to offer 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 joyful to have the scraps tossed at their toes, cucked into submission with hardly any effort in any respect. Oh nicely…
As for the fights?
Garcia will homicide Rolly, possibly actually. Garcia is an insufferable shit-head, however he nonetheless has in his possession considered one 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 typically 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? Which will have been a special story.
As for Haney-Ramirez?
Haney will probably 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 will probably be wobbly and Ramirez, regardless of being previous his prime, can nonetheless come ahead and apply strain. I wouldn’t be shocked 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 struggle.
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.
Nevertheless, I wouldn’t be shocked in any respect if Garcia fucks issues up for this complete state of affairs by doing one thing to kill the proposed Could struggle.
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 big battle of curiosity.
– Damon
Hey Damon.
Properly, 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 could possibly’ve referred to as most of them publicists nicely earlier than Turki purchased them off).
As I wrote on Monday:
“Within the coming months, as said by Alalshikh himself, the purpose is for Ring Journal to change into a de facto promoter, sponsoring boxing occasions which his workers 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 broad”) 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 workers to promote the occasions and their faux rankings/titles like their jobs depend upon it (they may).
Sustaining ethical/moral excessive floor in the course of 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. Below Turki, these folks will probably be made to place out, just like the you-know-whats that they’re.”
In case you’re a journalist (or somebody who values journalism), it is 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 a detailed fight– that I assumed Bivol received. My boxing enterprise sense tells me that “they” will discover a method to have Bivol win this time and drive 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 of extra exercise within the first struggle 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 struggle, which leads me to consider that he’ll be even much less daring within the rematch.
Whoever wins, I wouldn’t maintain my breath on him dealing with the winner of Benavidez-Morrell subsequent. It SHOULD occur. It MIGHT occur. However there’s a lot that would fall of the rails between at times.
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