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

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

It's literally nothing more than a promotional arm now?

Uh yea. Exactly. Wtf are you talking about?.....the ring is doing a better job promoting the sport than any of these scumbag "promoters" ever did. That's the entire fukkin point

 

[Black_Jesus]

That's right, what's lost on 90% of the public re sanctioning bodies, is they provide boxers with 'options'.

When there's minimal belts, there's minimal choice to pivot, negotiate or take control of your own/teams career.

Ultimately, having just a Ring Magazine belt / Zuffa belt means they 'completely control the narrative' of who fights, for what price, when and where. aka The UFC. This is entirely by design.

Oh you don't like that fight? You don't like the 50k flat rate? Too bad, there's no other options, we run this as a company now, take the fight or leave it.

Only stupid motherfukkers can't see this.

If it comes with better fights more often then im for it.. When there was all these options and freedom boxing did nothing but continue to decline

 

[Bleed The Freak]

If it comes with better fights more often then im for it.. When there was all these options and freedom boxing did nothing but continue to decline

No one can defend the previous model.

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

Uh yea. Exactly. Wtf are you talking about?.....the ring is doing a better job promoting the sport than any of these scumbag "promoters" ever did. That's the entire fukkin point

No, as in it's a promotional arm for Ring, Zuffa, which is effectively Saudi Arabia, that's not journalism, which was your original point.

If you can't discern the difference between valuable, independent journalism and thinly disguised agitprop, then you belong where you are, a pawn treading water in the shallows.

You seriously expect us to believe that Max Kellerman is doing a better job than Ring Magazine prior to Alishikh's purchase?

Let me guess, you preferred Word Up magazine to The Source in 1996?

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

Man shut your whiny ass up

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

Man shut your whiny ass up

Damn, Max fukking Kellerman, respawned in MAGA glory. Say it aint so?

Sonned yourself.

 

[Derek Lee]

 

[TheNig]

 

[jj23]

him going to zuffa doesn't make any sense at all

Man showed Hearn - "this is business" that money had to be crazy.

Man stood by you through two drug failures. Didn't even get a conversation.

1 fight - $15 million is ridiculous though. I can't wrap my head around money like that, considering Benn isn't really known like that outside the UK.

 

[patscorpio]

 

[Bleed The Freak]

Good luck paying boxers 10+ million and UFC guys 50k

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

 

[desjardins]

This Benn Zuffa deal makes zero sense to me.
8 figures for 1 fight, no long term commitment for a price that could have got a lot of other better fighters. Most guys are probably locked into their promotional deals, every fighter out there is probably thinking about FAgency and at least considering Zuffa as a real option now

 

[Bleed The Freak]

This Benn Zuffa deal makes zero sense to me.
8 figures for 1 fight, no long term commitment for a price that could have got a lot of other better fighters. Most guys are probably locked into their promotional deals, every fighter out there is probably thinking about FAgency and at least considering Zuffa as a real option now

UFC gonna have a mutiny on their hands with fighter pay

Boxing can get 8 figures but their roster gets

They're paying this much to put Oscar, Al, Bob, Eddie and Frank and them out of business

 

[patscorpio]

This Benn Zuffa deal makes zero sense to me.
8 figures for 1 fight, no long term commitment for a price that could have got a lot of other better fighters. Most guys are probably locked into their promotional deals, every fighter out there is probably thinking about FAgency and at least considering Zuffa as a real option now

i can see if benn was a champion and zuffa wanted to do something big with maybe another champion...but benn is a mid fighter who has not won a world title or been in a world title fight....giving him more than 10 million dollars for 1 fight is one of the reasons why networks turned their back on boxing.