Comments Thread For: Despite Turki Alalshikh's claim, Aug. 3 show was sellout in name only

[factsarenice]

It's all a sportswashing effort from the Saudi "royal" family. They are doing exactly the same thing with LIV golf because they can.
They CAN'T do it with the NFL, MLB, or NBA (at least not yet) because those aren't as easily penetrated and simply bought off. But boxing is an amorphous, largely unregulated, uncoordinated, freewheeling blob that is ripe for the probing, influence-injecting Saudi entry. I have my bias as to whether this is a good or bad thing, but here I'm just explaining the phenomenon. Do we get some exciting cards out of it? Yeah, that's indisputable. Is it without question the primary motivation of the Saudi "royal court" to clean up boxing? Absolutely not.

Fear not, when that awful Turki leaves we can get back to hyped matches, hand picked opponents and fights that are 95 % predictable. Or even better, skip the no hope PPV and watch a guy beat a dog with a stick.

[factsarenice]

Canelo will make his big guarantees until he decides he’s done. He brings sponsors, live gates, and TV money from Mexico other fighters can’t. Every time he’s available DAZN and Haymon have no problem meeting his price.

This Turki clown just had to give away thousands of seats despite a “supercard” featuring popular local fighters. He had the top P4P fighter at the top of the card and couldn’t do 100K buys. And he still wants to disrespect Canelo who is his only hope of making money on Bud? All he is doing is making the price go up. He has lost all his leverage with that trash event he put on.

Some people don't like competitive fights, but they love a good cherry pick, no hope for easy money. Like you, they dig Jake Paul vs anyone, Floyd vs Gotti and Canelo vs every hand picked loser he can find.

And you're in for a treat....for only $90.00 you can watch a guy take a beating like a drunk bum fight on a street corner. After that there's always the guy on youtube that beats his dog until he stops moving. It's not really a fight but none of these are, and the best part is he gets paid a lot to do it.

[Left Hook Louie]

Fear not, when that awful Turki leaves we can get back to hyped matches, hand picked opponents and fights that are 95 % predictable. Or even better, skip the no hope PPV and watch a guy beat a dog with a stick.

Pick your poison, I say.

[QballLobo]

Some people don't like competitive fights, but they love a good cherry pick, no hope for easy money. Like you, they dig Jake Paul vs anyone, Floyd vs Gotti and Canelo vs every hand picked loser he can find.

And you're in for a treat....for only $90.00 you can watch a guy take a beating like a drunk bum fight on a street corner. After that there's always the guy on youtube that beats his dog until he stops moving. It's not really a fight but none of these are, and the best part is he gets paid a lot to do it.

$90 sounds like a significant amount of money for you. I spend more than that most nights I go out.

Feel sorry for your broke ass.

[Sheikh]

It is just a matter of time until the networks cut and flee boxing. The rating simply aren't there and why are they going to be there when the fights are all predictable and not competitive. Dazn and espn will both be gone in 12-18 months

[PBR Streetgang]

So far Boxing is befitting and so is everyone that truly loves the sport. The status quo are making money but they aren't happy so they shake his hand and behind closed doors instigate push back because what they fear most is the possibility of change, of losing their iron grip of corruption on the sport. But fear not, eventually all things end and when Turki leaves we can get back to matches that are 95 % predictable... like the Kardashians.

I enjoy the Saudi cards for what they are. They are good competitive fights and I appreciate that. I wish that boxing had substantive change to make it more entertaining and more relevant in a sustaining way. I doubt I will ever see that. The Saudis aren't the savior for the sport but they are giving us some good cards for as long as it lasts.

[factsarenice]

I enjoy the Saudi cards for what they are. They are good competitive fights and I appreciate that. I wish that boxing had substantive change to make it more entertaining and more relevant in a sustaining way. I doubt I will ever see that. The Saudis aren't the savior for the sport but they are giving us some good cards for as long as it lasts.

I agree, the Saudis aren't the savior and I'm grateful for as long as it can last but I'm already seeing push back from people acting against their best interest and the best interest of the sport.

Nothing will change until there is a league with rules that everyone abides by. Unfortunately, the commitment, financing and progression it takes is about as popular as public funded politics in America. The push back from the current power structure will gladly burn everything to the ground before they allow a playing field they can't manipulate.

[PBR Streetgang]

I agree, the Saudis aren't the savior and I'm grateful for as long as it can last but I'm already seeing push back from people acting against their best interest and the best interest of the sport.

Nothing will change until there is a league with rules that everyone abides by. Unfortunately, the commitment, financing and progression it takes is about as popular as public funded politics in America. The push back from the current power structure will gladly burn everything to the ground before they allow a playing field they can't manipulate.

100%. Especially the bold. If tennis or any other sport can have it then there is no reason why boxing can't as well.