Good day boxing followers and devoted haters. Right here’s one other week’s price of my bulbous sack, bulging with gooey, salty reality, in your face. Get pleasure from. This week, we have now feedback/questions relating to Tank Davis within the Corridor of Fame, De La Hoya promoting out to the Saudis, and the WBC insulting our intelligence.
Is Tank Davis HOF-worthy?
Hey Magno,
First, let me say that I’m an enormous fan. I can rely on one hand essentially the most sincere boxing reporters/consultants in as we speak’s world and you’re undoubtedly on the prime. I actually recognize you for that as a result of that is very unusual lately so Thank You for that.
I’m very sincere and unbiased in my boxing opinions as effectively and my query for you is, if Tank actually retires with out having that one profession defining combat, does he actually belong within the Corridor of Fame? Now, I am talking from a resume standpoint. Instance, nobody on Tank’s resume stands out as an all-time nice. I am saying nobody as a result of everyone knows Leo Santa Cruz was wayyy out of his weight class and Tank got here down from 135 to combat him at 130. I can not give him the credit score for that. At that actual time he selected to combat Leo, at 135 was Loma, Teo, Haney. He selected to not combat any of these guys after which Shakur comes into the load, wins a brilliant title and he hasn’t fought him both. Tank grew to become an e-mail champ when Haney vacated his titles. He went as much as 140 and fought Barrios, however Barrios was simply an interim champ as a result of Josh Taylor was undisputed on the time. And he places weight restrictions on nearly everybody. Ryan Garcia, Pitbull Cruz, Frank Martin, Rolly Romero on the time that Tank fought them weren’t champions and have by no means even fought for a title earlier than preventing Tank.
So, the place I’m getting is Tank fights a whole lot of prospects or guys who’re wayyy at an obstacle because of weight restrictions. Clearly whether or not it is him or his crew he avoids the highest guys within the weight class. Does he actually need to get within the Corridor of Fame simply because he is undefeated by beating guys wayyy overmatched that he ought to beat? I say no however I do know he’ll. In your opinion do you assume he ought to get in with a weak resume like that and why?
– Jamel Adams
Hey Jamel.
Thanks for the type phrases. I recognize that.
First, I’ve to preface all of this Corridor of Fame discuss with the truth that Vinny Pazienza was simply voted into the Corridor of Fame. So, it doesn’t matter what you consider Tank Davis’ physique of labor, he’s most likely a lock to get in.
Now, as to your fairly harsh evaluation of Tank’s resume…
I might undoubtedly agree that he’s but to have that defining combat in opposition to an elite-level opponent in his weight class. For my part, that weighs closely on his legacy. There are authentic causes for sure fights not getting made. Bob Arum flat-out (and vocally) dominated out a Tank combat for Lomachenko for years and when he did wish to log off on one, Lomachenko backed out. It’s additionally just about an open-book truth now that Tank’s crew approached Shakur Stevenson for a combat, however Stevenson walked away over a disagreement associated to future combat choices (He reportedly needed a multi-fight deal, whereas PBC needed a one-and-done deal for the Tank combat). However I’m a black and white man on the subject of resume– a fighter both has the names on his resume or he doesn’t, and he’s judged accordingly. And, as of proper now, Tank doesn’t. His resume just isn’t as flimsy as folks make it out to be, however there are not any actual legacy-defining fights and, for a 30-year-old fighter with 13 world title fights underneath his belt, that’s a fairly damning actuality.
As for the load stipulation stuff, I completely don’t maintain that in opposition to him. All fighters ought to insist on opposition competing at a good weight. If Tank is preventing in opposition to bigger males and/or identified weight bullies, he has each proper to demand that they’re held accountable for competing on a fair taking part in discipline. If these guys wish to compete as bigger males, they shouldn’t be making an attempt to make fights in opposition to smaller males.
Oscar’s Golden Sellout
What’s up P Magazine.
Hope all is effectively with you and the household. Glad to see you are still hammering on the Saudi sculpture whereas everybody else is shopping for into the nonsense they’re promoting. Talking of which…
How did Oscar [De La Hoya] go from (paraphrasing) “Ain’t no person going to come back into by yard and arrange store” (with reference to Turki doing the Crawford-Mardimov combat in Los Angeles) to “partnering” with Turki, to assist induct him within the Nevada Boxing Corridor of Fame having NEVER placed on a present there, to promoting the Ring Journal?
– Massive Rob
Hey Massive Rob.
Nicely, to be blunt– Oscar’s stance modified as a result of he was given some huge cash to alter it. It’s actually that straightforward. Taking $10 million for that money-losing mess Ring Journal was like hitting the lottery for Oscar. All the pieces in his firm’s “partnership” with the Saudis has been finished within the spirit of sucking as much as the cash-rich Saudis. Oscar is the stripper on the Tijuana strip membership and Turki is the wealthy international man strolling into the membership, seated at a desk by the stage. Oscar’s working the perceived cash marks, however, in actuality, he’s the one being labored. He’ll discover that out in the long term, simply because the others speeding to promote out to the Saudis will.
Dumb and Dumber
Hello Chief!
I took this from a Boxingscene story:
“Earlier within the night, Alalshikh was named the WBC’s Man of the 12 months, an award beforehand gained by Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and Pope Francis.”
On a associated be aware, phrase within the streets is {that a} Vatican committee investigates whether or not an incident the place a boxer mysteriously healed is certainly a miracle carried out by His Almighty Excellency.
P.S. hahahahaajjajajaj! Do you assume the WBC REALLY assume that the boxing followers are that silly? Are boxing followers that silly????
– Carlos, from Hermosillo, Mexico.
Hey Carlos.
The reply to your two questions are “sure” and “sure.”
By no means underestimate the facility of a unified corrupt, for-sale media to promote a story. And by no means overestimate the collective will and savvy of the general public to withstand being offered a story.
The unmitigated, shameless sleaziness of all of it is humorous, however it’s additionally not.
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