Regarding Haney, Turki Alalshikh and especially Broner: Controversial events will always interest us fans as some of us would comment. Our hope is Turki will build up boxing to new levels of entertainment or at least accelerate competitive matches. Consistently, like the old days. My compassion (an emotion) is to forgive Turki and his Excellency’s regime for any and all past actions we consider as wrong, bad, evil, controlling, arrogant, etc…
Reading a recent post from The New Arab Staff, apparently from journalists, it states”:
“…..,with a figure as powerful as Turki Alalshikh posting photos of him, it could point to Riyadh no longer worrying about any pushback on the murder of Khashoggi or any of its vast human rights abuses. (Khashoggi was a journalist)
Critics argue that Saudi Arabia is using sport to normalise many of its human rights abuses, including , as well as the .”
…
If we take the above to be factual, we may assume or worry that even the Turki regime can follow our sad bunch of promotors and managers who’ve targeted short term profit over serous competition in boxing. That competition was what our, “old days” provided. The future will always move forward, we can’t go back but it’s probable that funding our top players only with no concern for where they came from, what created and developed them, ie the sport itself likely will destroy what’s left of it.
For now, we can see that similar attitude, of abuse if not total annihilation of boxing as what apparently occurred to people or groups from scandalous activities of this regime historically…
on a positive note I personally hope that the Turki regime plans to actually come to the aid of boxing in general and not just squeeze the last bit of lemon juice from our juiciest lemons.
Reading a recent post from The New Arab Staff, apparently from journalists, it states”:
“…..,with a figure as powerful as Turki Alalshikh posting photos of him, it could point to Riyadh no longer worrying about any pushback on the murder of Khashoggi or any of its vast human rights abuses. (Khashoggi was a journalist)
Critics argue that Saudi Arabia is using sport to normalise many of its human rights abuses, including , as well as the .”
…
If we take the above to be factual, we may assume or worry that even the Turki regime can follow our sad bunch of promotors and managers who’ve targeted short term profit over serous competition in boxing. That competition was what our, “old days” provided. The future will always move forward, we can’t go back but it’s probable that funding our top players only with no concern for where they came from, what created and developed them, ie the sport itself likely will destroy what’s left of it.
For now, we can see that similar attitude, of abuse if not total annihilation of boxing as what apparently occurred to people or groups from scandalous activities of this regime historically…
on a positive note I personally hope that the Turki regime plans to actually come to the aid of boxing in general and not just squeeze the last bit of lemon juice from our juiciest lemons.
BrankoB
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