Welcome to a particular Thanksgiving version of Magno’s Bulging Mail Sack the place boxing’s dangerous guys are compelled to gobble, gobble on the gooey, salty, cranberry-infused fact coming straight from my bloated sack of giblets. This week now we have feedback/questions concerning Ryan Garcia’s exhibition, boxing’s transfer to Saudi Arabia, and my private completely satisfied boxing moments.
Movin’ to Saudi Arabia
What’s good P Magazine?
Comfortable Thanksgiving brotha to you and your loved ones. Evidently large fights are steadily shifting to Saudi Arabia and fewer in all places else. Plenty of followers appear okay with this so long as we get as they put it “we get good fights”. What are you your ideas?
– Rob
Hey Rob.
They’re SAYING they’re okay with it. Their actions, although, don’t present their happiness with “getting good fights” beneath these phrases and situations. Pay-per-view gross sales for these Saudi reveals have been weak. Boxing web site visitors has been dropping immensely, indicating a shrinking quantity of curiosity. Even social media trending numbers are down.
The reality of the matter is that boxing followers need good fights, however additionally they need their fights at a handy time of the day, in an thrilling atmosphere, and on reveals which can be truly partaking. Additionally they need to have the ability to exit and see an enormous struggle in particular person sometimes. The Saudis aren’t delivering any of that. Boxing followers devour their product on a way more private degree than different sports activities followers do. They’ve a private connections with the fighters and the matchups. The game being pulled from the fan base is taking the lifeblood from the American boxing scene and all knowledge is exhibiting that, even when the bought-off press and a few vocal followers are telling the precise reverse story.
I don’t see anyone ecstatic about tuning right into a present at 11 am on a Saturday, sitting by way of hours of filler across the matches, after which seeing the fights in a sterile, lifeless area that has about as a lot vitality as a school Humanities 101 lecture corridor. Golden Boy’s current Latino Night time card, for instance, would’ve been rocking an area arduous in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. In Saudi Arabia, it got here off as a pandemic present with cardboard cutouts within the crowd. That type of stuff DOES matter to followers, even when they don’t vocalize it (and even consciously notice it). The dearth of buzz for that typically good card ought to’ve been eye-opening on the subject of the perils of eradicating fan vitality from a sport that’s basically constructed ON fan vitality.
In an 8-month span between the Tank Davis/David Benavidez twin invoice this previous June and the Benavidez-Morrell card in February, the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson card will go down as the one main boxing occasion on US soil by an American promoter. That type of stagnation is pure loss of life. It’s a sluggish necrosis in boxing’s limbs, headed in the direction of its trunk.
What’s misplaced on this orgy of immediate Saudi boxing gratification is the truth that that is very a lot a takeover of the game for the Saudis’ personal functions. It’s a transfer to personal boxing and make it their very own private sport for exhibition in their very own land. These high-profile fights being made and the cash dished out to boxing business persons are simply the lures to attract us to the hooks. I’ve been making my case on this subject for awhile now, and just about getting nowhere. However individuals can learn my case towards a Saudi-run boxing on this previous Monday’s Notes from the Boxing Underground column proper right here at FightHype.
Ryan Garcia, The Comeback Earlier than The Comeback
Hey Magno.
I simply noticed the place Ryan Garcia is returning to the ring in an exhibition in Japan, towards the man who did fairly nicely towards Manny Pacquiao in an exhibition. I’m no professional on the subject of the politics and enforcement of guidelines and laws, however wouldn’t this be a violation of his suspension for PEDs use? It doesn’t matter who would win this exhibition, however do you see somebody stepping in to cease the struggle earlier than it even occurs?
– John
Hey John.
If I have been king of boxing, this exhibition stunt by Garcia would value him one other 12 months of suspension. After all, he’s giving an enormous center finger to the NYSAC and to boxing regulation usually by earning money fighting– throughout a suspension for a violation he by no means actually accepted accountability for, by the best way.
From the newest information, nevertheless, it seems to be as if Golden Boy could put the kibosh on Garcia’s exhibition. Oscar De La Hoya launched a social media assertion on Tuesday saying that his firm owns unique rights to all Ryan Garcia fights and that this one isn’t Golden Boy-authorized and, subsequently, isn’t one thing that will probably be taking place. This may increasingly change if Oscar will get his beak moist from the occasion organizers in Japan. However, as of proper now, I’d say this exhibition isn’t a certain factor to occur by any means.
P.S, My dislike for Devin Haney grows every day for not eliminating this dip shit.
Heat, Fuzzies
Hello Paul.
Comfortable Thanksgiving to you and yours. Right here’s a vacation softball on your mail sack.
What’s your happiest boxing reminiscence?
Take care. You’re appreciated.
– The Cincy Child
Hey Cincy Child.
I might get deeply cynical with this and say that I used to be by no means fairly as boxing-happy as when Yori Boy Campas beat the snot out of Tony Ayala Jr. and made him stop.
However I’ll go heat and fuzzy right here and say that I’ll in all probability by no means be as completely satisfied and content material with a boxing product as I used to be watching Combat Night time on the Discussion board and HBO’s Boxing After Darkish within the 90s. These reveals will at all times be completely satisfied locations in my boxing mind. Different completely satisfied boxing recollections focus on my private involvement within the sport– getting fighters paid their promised purses as a supervisor and, as a coach, watching youngsters turn into assured, basically first rate human beings beneath my watch.
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