Adrien Broner when the "problem" becomes our problem.
Maidana melted the Wicked Witch of Cincinnati. The kid with the big mouth, no humility and a bad habit of writing checks with his mouth that his ass could not cash!
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Schadenfreude has never felt so good in boxing land. Boxing land is a place where duplicity and being duped go together like peanut butter and chocolate. It is a place where a man like Floyd Mayweather Junior who could not sell a drink of water to a dessert rat, emerged from the De La Hoya fight as the man who makes it rain.
In his own words, “Love me or hate me either way you will pay me�
Read on after the break, or discuss in our boxing forum
From the fish netted coattails of De La Hoya, in a split decision win for Mayweather, a legend was birthed…No due diligence was required to confer such a place for Mayweather in boxing history because fans have a short attention span. Little Floyd went From zero to sixty, from the goat who was boring to watch, to some declaring him the G.O.A.T. His foibles became gist for the money mill: jail time for personal issues, sucker punching his way to a win over a crazy young fighter he could have perhaps bested legitimately in the ring andlately� Floyd never misses an opportunity to step on the throat of the IRS besieged Manny Pacquiao.
Why not? hate sells!
Mayweather is our new and improved PT Barnum! Line up for the lollipop suckers! Not only is he ready to dupe us all, but he tells us how we are to be duped. A wonderful poster on another site who shall remain anonymous described Floyd as creating big paydays and lavish promotions. There seems
to be an “understanding.�
Think the opposite of Gatti versus Ward and More like Jones versus Del Valle type action. The gravy train is rolling, little Floyd coming to a town near you! The payday for a young fighter is career altering, in fact a loss becomes academic. You get paid and promoted by the man making it rain�. You make sure the promotion is done right, you have the requisite stare downs, toss a few insults, but when the action starts its all polite, playing nice and “respectful like� in the ring, you know both: your place and who butters your bread…In a different context Slapsy Maxie the great light heavy weight, when asked why he had so few KO’s said: “I took it easy cause someone coulda got huyt in dere!�
Broner is smart enough to have observed how his mentor parts the dollars from the boxing public. Broner wanted some of that action and appointed himself Floyd’s main protege, his little brother. This was no idle boast, and in an age where characters like Charlie Z can walk into a gym and actually get
Floyd senior to smack him around…much less look at him…and where a Roach Groupie can emerge as the unlicensed accountant-slash- Bob Arum lackey, who may have financially destroyed Manny P to the tune of millions�.one must ask: who questions these self appointed tin throne demagogues? Not that Floyd didn’t encourage and was not supportive of this relationship�.But did some one at least question the Broner hype? Broner, for his part, drank the kool aid and convinced himself that trailing after Floyd grinning like a hyena and saying “easy work� would make it so�. Broner figured that the script would be like it was for big brother, a few shots and like Floyd, he would get his hand raised. Why not? It had happened before, Broner had seen the judges raise his hand even when Ponce, and others had obviously beaten him. Being little brother had its privileges and surely Maidana knew the score!
Meanwhile the gullible boxing public got the morality play they desired� Maidana punished Broner, the grinning parvenu, like a Singapore cop caning a reprobate gum chewer �.And they ate it up relishing the symbolic dry hump�.Poof! Broner’s manhood gone! Replaying the tortured positions
Broner lay in and around the ring, to loud guffaws. Some say Broner showed heart, I question that contention. He looked scared, and was looking for a way out after he first started to realize Maidana wasn’t playing nice like Floyd’s opponents as of late seem to do in the ring.
Broner looked psychologically broken after the fight and did not have the skills to keep Maidana off of him, skills that Floyd had developed with footwork and timing. What kept Broner going was perhaps the immortal words of Broner’s mentor “love me or hate me, either way you will pay me!� Broner also seems
very concerned with his marketability after the fight by some accounts. Should this have been such a concern? Priorities!
As sports fans we are supposed to distinguish and decide who deserves a chance, or not. When some self entitled near do well gets a grab at the brass ring we seem to respond like a laugh track during a bad seventies sitcom. When people with juice say it is so, the media glorifies an individual and we
seldom reflect on whether our support is actually warranted. Boxing fans talk about values, about the need for competitive fights, etc and we are more than willing to take the moral high ground when fighters have issues, yet we still, as a group, are told who will get to perform in the square circle, like it
or lump it.
There is an old principle that states when you don’t use power you give it away. Fans give so much power away and we seldom look carefully at the takers. We enrich promoters like Bob Arum…an alleged friend of Manny Pacquiao, a friend who will not step aside so his IRS debt laden
friend can challenge Floyd to a fight that the public has a real interest In viewing. We give millions, letting Mayweather decide who he will bless with a payday, instead of demanding he engage opponents that are worthy in our estimation. And Broner feels entitled to keep fighting against competition that
he has arguably not earned the right to fight. When has Broner beaten a great fighter in a clear and convincing fashion? Thats what champions
generally do.
Why does Broner get another crack at a champion? Why does Broner get this payday? Because we accept it, that is why. Broner the uncouth individual who could not even shake Paulie’s hand, Broner the self appointed one, shoved down fans throats with the immortal words of big brother Floyd “love me hate me, you will pay to see me.�
And that is the “problem� and not the problem with the “problem� Broner, that is the problem with boxing fans. We have given up so much power that we will pay to see a guy who has not proven jack in the ring because he has potential, connections and virtually for all purpose, the same self appointed
status as a Charlie Z. We will let Arum tell us who we can watch fight, along with the other promoters�.We let boxing commissions censor fighters like Tyson Fury for telling the truth and if that is not enough? We let the British Boxing Commission almost stop the best heavyweight fight in years!
We look at a young hard working fighter who is getting better every fight, like Derrick Chisora and call him a wife beater and thug�.yet endorse a truly morally reprehensible unworthy like Broner because he has tithed himself off the church of Floyd courtesy of the the electric kool aid and the hand
extended by De La Hoya (a hand Floyd will perhaps never extend to Pacquiao).
So where does it end with Broner? How many chances does he get? Is he the only guy in the middle divisions with talent? How far will his connections take him? How many threads and discussions will revolve around hoping that the judges are not corrupt enough to raise Broner’s hand unless it should
be raised? When will boxing fans remember that paying to see this numbskull get a beat down is still paying him? Wanna pay Broner for that? Lets all pitch in a few bucks, get a pot together and have Kimbo and Broner go at it in a backyard somewhere�.winner take all.
I only say this because I know Kimbo is equal to the task� I would never deny Kimbo, a guy who works hard, a payday. With all due respect Broner picked a great name. He is indeed a problem, he is in a word�.our problem.
Maidana melted the Wicked Witch of Cincinnati. The kid with the big mouth, no humility and a bad habit of writing checks with his mouth that his ass could not cash!
image
Schadenfreude has never felt so good in boxing land. Boxing land is a place where duplicity and being duped go together like peanut butter and chocolate. It is a place where a man like Floyd Mayweather Junior who could not sell a drink of water to a dessert rat, emerged from the De La Hoya fight as the man who makes it rain.
In his own words, “Love me or hate me either way you will pay me�
Read on after the break, or discuss in our boxing forum
From the fish netted coattails of De La Hoya, in a split decision win for Mayweather, a legend was birthed…No due diligence was required to confer such a place for Mayweather in boxing history because fans have a short attention span. Little Floyd went From zero to sixty, from the goat who was boring to watch, to some declaring him the G.O.A.T. His foibles became gist for the money mill: jail time for personal issues, sucker punching his way to a win over a crazy young fighter he could have perhaps bested legitimately in the ring andlately� Floyd never misses an opportunity to step on the throat of the IRS besieged Manny Pacquiao.
Why not? hate sells!
Mayweather is our new and improved PT Barnum! Line up for the lollipop suckers! Not only is he ready to dupe us all, but he tells us how we are to be duped. A wonderful poster on another site who shall remain anonymous described Floyd as creating big paydays and lavish promotions. There seems
to be an “understanding.�
Think the opposite of Gatti versus Ward and More like Jones versus Del Valle type action. The gravy train is rolling, little Floyd coming to a town near you! The payday for a young fighter is career altering, in fact a loss becomes academic. You get paid and promoted by the man making it rain�. You make sure the promotion is done right, you have the requisite stare downs, toss a few insults, but when the action starts its all polite, playing nice and “respectful like� in the ring, you know both: your place and who butters your bread…In a different context Slapsy Maxie the great light heavy weight, when asked why he had so few KO’s said: “I took it easy cause someone coulda got huyt in dere!�
Broner is smart enough to have observed how his mentor parts the dollars from the boxing public. Broner wanted some of that action and appointed himself Floyd’s main protege, his little brother. This was no idle boast, and in an age where characters like Charlie Z can walk into a gym and actually get
Floyd senior to smack him around…much less look at him…and where a Roach Groupie can emerge as the unlicensed accountant-slash- Bob Arum lackey, who may have financially destroyed Manny P to the tune of millions�.one must ask: who questions these self appointed tin throne demagogues? Not that Floyd didn’t encourage and was not supportive of this relationship�.But did some one at least question the Broner hype? Broner, for his part, drank the kool aid and convinced himself that trailing after Floyd grinning like a hyena and saying “easy work� would make it so�. Broner figured that the script would be like it was for big brother, a few shots and like Floyd, he would get his hand raised. Why not? It had happened before, Broner had seen the judges raise his hand even when Ponce, and others had obviously beaten him. Being little brother had its privileges and surely Maidana knew the score!
Meanwhile the gullible boxing public got the morality play they desired� Maidana punished Broner, the grinning parvenu, like a Singapore cop caning a reprobate gum chewer �.And they ate it up relishing the symbolic dry hump�.Poof! Broner’s manhood gone! Replaying the tortured positions
Broner lay in and around the ring, to loud guffaws. Some say Broner showed heart, I question that contention. He looked scared, and was looking for a way out after he first started to realize Maidana wasn’t playing nice like Floyd’s opponents as of late seem to do in the ring.
Broner looked psychologically broken after the fight and did not have the skills to keep Maidana off of him, skills that Floyd had developed with footwork and timing. What kept Broner going was perhaps the immortal words of Broner’s mentor “love me or hate me, either way you will pay me!� Broner also seems
very concerned with his marketability after the fight by some accounts. Should this have been such a concern? Priorities!
As sports fans we are supposed to distinguish and decide who deserves a chance, or not. When some self entitled near do well gets a grab at the brass ring we seem to respond like a laugh track during a bad seventies sitcom. When people with juice say it is so, the media glorifies an individual and we
seldom reflect on whether our support is actually warranted. Boxing fans talk about values, about the need for competitive fights, etc and we are more than willing to take the moral high ground when fighters have issues, yet we still, as a group, are told who will get to perform in the square circle, like it
or lump it.
There is an old principle that states when you don’t use power you give it away. Fans give so much power away and we seldom look carefully at the takers. We enrich promoters like Bob Arum…an alleged friend of Manny Pacquiao, a friend who will not step aside so his IRS debt laden
friend can challenge Floyd to a fight that the public has a real interest In viewing. We give millions, letting Mayweather decide who he will bless with a payday, instead of demanding he engage opponents that are worthy in our estimation. And Broner feels entitled to keep fighting against competition that
he has arguably not earned the right to fight. When has Broner beaten a great fighter in a clear and convincing fashion? Thats what champions
generally do.
Why does Broner get another crack at a champion? Why does Broner get this payday? Because we accept it, that is why. Broner the uncouth individual who could not even shake Paulie’s hand, Broner the self appointed one, shoved down fans throats with the immortal words of big brother Floyd “love me hate me, you will pay to see me.�
And that is the “problem� and not the problem with the “problem� Broner, that is the problem with boxing fans. We have given up so much power that we will pay to see a guy who has not proven jack in the ring because he has potential, connections and virtually for all purpose, the same self appointed
status as a Charlie Z. We will let Arum tell us who we can watch fight, along with the other promoters�.We let boxing commissions censor fighters like Tyson Fury for telling the truth and if that is not enough? We let the British Boxing Commission almost stop the best heavyweight fight in years!
We look at a young hard working fighter who is getting better every fight, like Derrick Chisora and call him a wife beater and thug�.yet endorse a truly morally reprehensible unworthy like Broner because he has tithed himself off the church of Floyd courtesy of the the electric kool aid and the hand
extended by De La Hoya (a hand Floyd will perhaps never extend to Pacquiao).
So where does it end with Broner? How many chances does he get? Is he the only guy in the middle divisions with talent? How far will his connections take him? How many threads and discussions will revolve around hoping that the judges are not corrupt enough to raise Broner’s hand unless it should
be raised? When will boxing fans remember that paying to see this numbskull get a beat down is still paying him? Wanna pay Broner for that? Lets all pitch in a few bucks, get a pot together and have Kimbo and Broner go at it in a backyard somewhere�.winner take all.
I only say this because I know Kimbo is equal to the task� I would never deny Kimbo, a guy who works hard, a payday. With all due respect Broner picked a great name. He is indeed a problem, he is in a word�.our problem.
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