Essential The Official Boxing Random Thoughts Thread...All boxing heads ENTER.

[morris]

 

[patscorpio]

Triller solidified their lane with boxing and music tonight. Now you hope they dont fukk it up lol

 

[Big Boss]

Shakur is gonna dance around Herring for 12 rds trying to avoid that uppercut and ATL nikkas will be booing throughout the fight giving all of us 2nd hand embarrassment.

especially after watching Tank fights in ATL

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

i can only imagine how ATL came to pass for this location of this fight

Bob - Gotdammit!!

Todd - what is it sir?
Bob - fukking MSG...they won't host Herring vs Tupac
Todd - Tupac?
Bob - That olympic kid from Jersey..shakur is it?
Todd - You mean Shakur stevenson?
Bob - Tupac..shakur..whatever I can't book him at MSG. they say he needs to fight someone that has a chance of beating him..knocking him out
Todd - well Jamel Herring did KO Carl Frampton earlier this year
Bob - Yeah? and i knocked out Jimmy Brown on the set of "Dirty Dozen" in 66. that's why he retired from football you know
Todd - what?
Bob - You're not the only one that can say outlandish things Todd. anyways cut the bullshyt. what's a place that has a big population of neg..err...bla...err African Americans?
Todd - I don't know sir..i would have thought both men coming from the tri state we can look elsewhere
Bob - *mimicking* we can look elsewhere.....you're useless Todd...wait i know a place!!
Todd - where?
Bob - What's that city that Ali fought in? The first fight from exile where he faced that bleeding mick Quarry?
Todd - Atlanta?
Bob - Yes!! Atlanta!! that was a fun city. they were all out with their loud clothes and big puffy fros and foxy mamas. I had my first piece of brown sugar there if you know what i mean?
Todd - Yes sir
Bob - Contact the guys at the stadiums where the Falcons and Hawks play..see if they have open dates available...tell em we are delivering champions...not like they know anything about that
Bob and Todd both laugh - "HAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Bob - After that I need you to call Paco and tell em to call off the purse bid. If I don't, Don King might try to take this fight from me
Todd - Mr. King is irrelevant sir he has no fighters
Bob - You're gotdamn right he's irrelevant but I need that bid called off
Todd - Yes sir
Bob - and also tell him he really owes me for staging this fight
Todd - what does he owe?
Bob - the WBO Middleweight Title...I want it
Todd - the WBO Middleweight title?
Bob - Is there an echo in here? Yes the fukking belt. I signed ali's grandkid to Top Rank. Tell you the truth I've never seen him fight but he's an Ali. I want to make him a champion within his first 5 fights
Todd - Sir we could just get the belt off Murata?
Bob - Do I own the fukking WBA? Plus if I job him his people might release more Covid to our country
Todd - he's japanese not chinese
Bob - THEY ARE ALL THE SAME TO ME!!! Just tell Paco I want that belt back. he knows what to do. that smug english toffee Hearn isn't doing anything with that Rhode Island kid Andrade anyways. i bet you ill find him some opponents
Todd - Yes sir
Bob- Good...what was I just talking about?
Todd - *sigh*

I can't breath.

 

[patscorpio]

I can't breath.

I might turn that into a recurring parody..some boxing fiction to put on the RGR site..with a shytload of disclaimers haha. I have another Bob and Todd story brewing in my head that I might write later this month.

 

[aceboon]

If the fight gets made for Atlanta I want one of these youtubers or media folks to ask Bob why this fight is being held there, they're probably too scared to ask but I want to see him explain it for the comedy.

 

[reservoirdogs]

If the fight gets made for Atlanta I want one of these youtubers or media folks to ask Bob why this fight is being held there, they're probably too scared to ask but I want to see him explain it for the comedy.

What’s the problem with it? Ain’t it the same when they hold fights with Mexican-Americans in California or Texas? It makes sense. Idk if it works out for them, probably could have found other venues too but idk what’s wrong with the basis of it.

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

If the fight gets made for Atlanta I want one of these youtubers or media folks to ask Bob why this fight is being held there, they're probably too scared to ask but I want to see him explain it for the comedy.

Bob Arum in 2021 is a terrible promoter. He may have been good in the past but he is terrible now. All these P4P fighters he has on his roster and none of them have broken through and become stars.

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

What’s the problem with it? Ain’t it the same when they hold fights with Mexican-Americans in California or Texas? It makes sense. Idk if it works out for them, probably could have found other venues too but idk what’s wrong with the basis of it.

He thinks just because it is two black fighters, fighting in Atlanta it will sell with minimal marketing and he is in for a rude awakening. Tank Davis is a star, Stevenson and Herring are not, if anything this fight should be on a Tank undercard.

There is a reason why we all say that Arum has no idea how to promote or sell black fighters and this is a perfect example of it. Then he is going to blame the poor performance of this on 'blacks don't support other blacks' like black people aren't the #1 group in the US that support and watch boxing.

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

Bob Arum in 2021 is a terrible promoter. He may have been good in the past but he is terrible now. All these P4P fighters he has on his roster and none of them have broken through and become stars.

Facts

but I said this before, they know how to get you developed and popping to a world title, but after that its a wrap. They can't make stars.

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

He thinks just because it is two black fighters, fighting in Atlanta it will sell with minimal marketing and he is in for a rude awakening. Tank Davis is a star, Stevenson and Herring are not, if anything this fight should be on a Tank undercard.

There is a reason why we all say that Arum has no idea how to promote or sell black fighters and this is a perfect example of it. Then he is going to blame the poor performance of this on 'blacks don't support other blacks' like black people aren't the #1 group in the US that support and watch boxing.

All facts when we know guys like Cory spinks sold tickets and didn't really have the most exciting style.

With black boxers you gotta maximize their hometown following, but too many times promoter send these nikkas to fight in the most random places in the country. Not everyone can do that shyt.

You gotta build them up into stars before you can start sending nikkas to fight in random select mode locations. Not everyone is Roy Jones in the 90s

 

[aceboon]

What’s the problem with it? Ain’t it the same when they hold fights with Mexican-Americans in California or Texas? It makes sense. Idk if it works out for them, probably could have found other venues too but idk what’s wrong with the basis of it.

Bob and his fellow Top Rank (white) cronies saw Tank just have two successful shows in Atlanta and thinks that just because you put Black fighters there it will sell, it doesn't work like that. ATL is Tank's home now and he has built up support there in the celebrity/influencer community, Herring and Shakur have none of that.

 

[GzUp]

Bob Arum in 2021 is a terrible promoter. He may have been good in the past but he is terrible now. All these P4P fighters he has on his roster and none of them have broken through and become stars.

He’s like 90 years old, don’t have the energy anymore

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

Bob better have the most fire co main event he can muster if he puts Shakur n Herring on in Atlanta

 

[reservoirdogs]

He thinks just because it is two black fighters, fighting in Atlanta it will sell with minimal marketing and he is in for a rude awakening. Tank Davis is a star, Stevenson and Herring are not, if anything this fight should be on a Tank undercard.

There is a reason why we all say that Arum has no idea how to promote or sell black fighters and this is a perfect example of it. Then he is going to blame the poor performance of this on 'blacks don't support other blacks' like black people aren't the #1 group in the US that support and watch boxing.

Bob and his fellow Top Rank (white) cronies saw Tank just have two successful shows in Atlanta and thinks that just because you put Black fighters there it will sell, it doesn't work like that. ATL is Tank's home now and he has built up support there in the celebrity/influencer community, Herring and Shakur have none of that.

If he gonna do that, it's wrong but until then I don't see the moral problem, it isn't protected by copyright laws and shyt just because they didn't have the idea first to do a show there, this isn't a creative competition.

Financially it might not work for them, they will learn on their own then, I get why you're sceptic that it would work just don't get the anger about it like since when do you guys care about how tickets sell for a TR show?