On this nook of the Universo Pugilistico, it is all about my sack– my bulging, bulbous, aching sack– and the gooey, salty reality contained inside. So…sit again, shut your eyes, pull again your hair, and prepare for this week’s cash shot of knowledge. This week now we have feedback/questions concerning Tank Davis, Tank/Floyd/PBC beef, the UFC, and Pay-Per-All the pieces
Tank, Floyd, And many others…
Hey Paul,
Remark – First, I need to say that final Saturday night time’s card was stacked and fairly entertaining so far as PPV playing cards go. Secondly, Tank Davis is an issue! Every of his fights I see a bit of one thing completely different. Most of us followers are impressed by his energy, however his ring IQ is soooooo underrated. And he is fought so many types. He at all times appear to be calm and relaxed irrespective of how a lot warmth is being thrown at him, ready for the right alternative to counter or assault. Pit Bull gave him a fairly good scrap, and Shakur primarily based on his boxing expertise might pose a couple of moments, however I actually do not see anybody competing with him in or round his weight.
Query – Behind the scene there seems to be one thing happening between PBC (Al Haymon), Floyd, Leonard and Tank that has not come out but. Not too long ago there was loads of trash discuss, accusations, restructuring, and flat out trolling.
What’s your take?
– Reggie Cannon
Hey Reggie.
I utterly agree together with your feedback. As I wrote on Monday, Tank is particular. He brings that savvy boxing intuition and bettering ring IQ and than throws in a real killer intuition behind it. Anybody diminishing his accomplishments is both an fool or somebody driving a weirdo anti-Tank agenda. I don’t see anybody at 135 beating him and solely possibly two folks even giving him some issues.
As on your query…I feel loads of the meat we see on social media and see percolating within the enterprise enviornment is as a consequence of Floyd Mayweather’s ego. That’s simply my utterly uniformed, not-so-educated guess. There may additionally be some crucial restructuring inside all of their enterprise pursuits. In the long term, I don’t suppose something actually modifications for any of them.
A Counter to My UFC Declare
Hello Paul,
Glad to see you continue to on the market persevering with to pump out good work and conserving folks accountable.
Concerning your Notes printed on the seventeenth, I do not disagree with nearly all of what you wrote. I feel lots of your apprehensions concerning the potential Saudi takeover of boxing may result in a variety of points.
One factor I feel you might be incorrect about nonetheless is that this line: “one the place the identical names are shuffled round time and again and incoming new expertise is of diminished high quality as a result of, beneath the UFC, the expertise is coming from strip mall dojos and from no matter could possibly be stolen from very secondary MMA corporations.” (emphasis added)
I feel this level is demonstrably false. Whereas I am undoubtedly a boxing man first, I observe the UFC reasonably carefully and am near individuals who observe it extraordinarily carefully. The expertise degree within the UFC has by no means been larger and that is seen most vividly within the new expertise. Lots of the folks outdoors of the highest 10, together with a number of folks with a restricted variety of skilled fights, would run circles round champions from simply 10-15 years in the past. It’s because the game has developed a lot in a brief time frame.
One instance of that is the brand new coaching program situated close to the Penn State campus. Penn State wrestling, which has gained 11 workforce nationwide championships since 2011, and is the host of a few of the greatest nationwide workforce members, now has connections to that MMA coaching facility constructed proper subsequent door. Since wrestling might be the very best beginning background for somebody getting into MMA, and there is a giant inflow of former top-level wrestlers getting into the game (within the early days of the UFC, it was wrestlers from D2&3 guys dominating the Octagon), I do not suppose it may be pretty mentioned that within the UFC the “incoming expertise is of diminished high quality.”
Thanks once more on your work and carry on rockin’.
– Jeremiah Davis
Hey Jeremiah.
I’m not a UFC/MMA man. I used to be simply going by the unanimous laments of each UFC/MMA man I do know that the product is diminished lately and that actual breakthrough stars have been a lot tougher to come back by. I could possibly be fallacious. However the “UFC mannequin” because it’s manifested via the proposed Saudi boxing league would undoubtedly result in a diminished high quality of the product. There’d be little-to-no “minor leagues” for growth and no actual likelihood for any of the younger stars to face a fringe High 10 or High 15 man to enhance his sport on the best way up. I’m not conscious of any actual developmental proving floor for UFC fighters, the place they will face some UFC-level guys in precise fight as they develop and develop, honing their expertise towards high-end fighters earlier than hitting the highest tier. Possibly I’m simply not conscious of that, although. Boxing, nonetheless, does have that developmental construction in place. It wouldn’t have a lot of that beneath the Saudi proposal.
Pay-Per-All the pieces (Revisited)
Hello, Paul, as at all times wishing you and your loved ones the very best!!! Completely agree together with your article concerning PPV, in my case, though I think about myself to be a hardcore boxing fan, I’ve realized to pay just for the most important fights on PPV. I’m completely superb with watching the highlights or any youtube video of another struggle posted the subsequent day. To date, this yr I’ve solely paid for 2 pay-per-views. The following one would be the Crawford struggle in August, the entire card pursuits me. So far as subscription, I’m superb with the ESPN Plus value, and subscribe to DAZN primarily based on the fights. For instance, I’ll subscribe to DAZN, June 15, 2024 and cancel the subsequent day. That may enable me to observe Matias vs Paro, Bam Bam vs Estrada and Jarron Ennis for the value of 1 month. Most likely will not subscribe until the top of the yr if one thing pursuits me. By the best way, the three fights that had me hyped in the course of the first half of this yr was Beterbiev vs Bivol, that was ESPN Plus, Amanda Serrano vs Taylor, on Netflix and Virgil Ortiz Vs Tzyu, simply my luck that each one of those fights have been both postponed or cancelled. That’s boxing!! Take care.
– Benjamin from Puerto Rico.
Hey Benjamin.
Customers will likely be customers. We are going to decide and select what’s of worth to us primarily based on value and high quality of content material. Boxing followers are savvy in that regard, as you’ve simply proven. Sadly, if the die-hards are selecting to go on many– of not most– exhibits, that implies that the not-so-die-hards and curious casuals are in all probability not shopping for into a lot of something. How can we construct a fan base for the long run if all of our greatest fights and fighters are behind paywalls? This sport is paying its payments by promoting off its furnishings and there’ll come day the place nothing is left however an empty home. We have to construct for the long run, however I don’t see anybody actually making an attempt. I simply see lots of people grabbing at pennies on the expense of future dimes.
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