Comments Thread For: 'New era' for The Ring, same ongoing mess for media

[paulf]

The Ring hasn't been relevant in about 25 years.

It doesn't matter. None of this nonsense matters.

[JULESLUPOWITZ]

Scheming has been part of sports early on. Unwritten rules included checks in hockey, elbows in basketball, face mask grabs in football, etc when not seen or caught. Boxing has its low blows, head buts, rabbit punches, etc which fall through the cracks. In that sense cheating can actually be considered a skill and part of the game. Just have to get away with it. In the long run, nobody Really gets away with it. A more experienced, knowledgeable audience can notice and talk about it. And, in that sense, media is no different. Information that is published can be slanted, downright corrupt. Anyone who knows Boxing well also knows all title belts and sanctioning bodies for practical purposes have been corrupt from the beginning. The Ring belt, from what I understand came about for that reason. But I agree with our writer: in the long run, you can’t necessarily stop that. Why? To me it apparently is part of human existence. Maybe when Darwin coined, “survival of the fittest” he may have known that does not mean the, “honest”.

[JULESLUPOWITZ]

I got mixed feelings on this turki dude. Its nice to see big fights happening more often, and im a big fan of the Ring ****zine hard copies. However, he is acting very authoritarian like.

People calling him "His excellency", man if you call him that you are weird asf.

Lot of folks are bending the knee to him, and now with him buying and controlling the media, he has bigger ambitions

I whole heartedly agree. We’re all for top competition w/ legit fighters. It’d be wonderful if Turki’s investments cleaned up boxing. And built it up. If revamping boxing legitimately is the goal and it really happens, we can celebrate. But with history (overall, in general, not just boxing) as we know it, many may sense some underlying ultimatum, maybe bigger that boxing or even sports… I personally believe in good prevailing over evil, ergo I am hopeful. For now we might as well be content with better boxing matches…