Each Thursday right here at FightHype, we show that there’s nonetheless a spot for a very good, old school written phrase cash shot from the depths of my bulbous, bulging sack. So, prepare for a few of that notorious Magno-rific gooey, salty, generally NSFW fact. This week, we’ve got feedback/questions concerning Shakur Stevenson vs. Turki, WBC vs. Turki, Bivol, Benavidez, and Boots Ennis vs. Eimantas Stanionis.
WTF is occurring with Shakur/Turki?
Hello Magno,
Sooo what the fuck is occurring with Turki and Shakur Stevenson? Stevenson, as soon as a Turki kiss ass, has now considerably turned his again on him on twitter over the weekend, and quoted Turki is being low-cost hastily. I assume when you hook up with Dana White, your monetary plans begin altering with regards to hiring labor (fighters). That is already wanting like a catastrophe for Turki seeing star energy stroll out on him.. (IMO, Shakur hasn’t impressed me shortly – undecided if he’s really star energy anymore however would like to know your ideas on this too.)
– Alexis Arango
Hey Alexis.
I touched on this in Monday’s Notes from the Boxing Underground column.
If Shakur was, certainly, low-balled for this Zepeda battle, it’s simply unhealthy, cynical enterprise ethics from Turki and the Saudis. I imply, you’ll be able to’t damage somebody’s marketability after which penalize him for his marketability being ruined. Properly, I assume, you CAN, but it surely’s form of shitty.
Then once more, Shakur solely has himself in charge if he finds himself on this predicament the place he has to make his personal offers, and is working up in opposition to his personal promoter in doing so. He made the choice to seize at that Saudi cash and align himself with Turki’s shoeshine boy, Eddie Hearn. He ought to’ve had the frequent sense to see the place this was so clearly headed. What sort of infantile pondering goes into the assumption that you would have an limitless provide of main paydays regardless of ruining your individual marketability, buried inside poor-selling undercards, preventing for detached followers on the opposite aspect of the world?
I feel this Shakur-Turki stuff might get settled, as a result of it’s too early within the takeover for Turki and the Saudis to tip their labor-busting hand and Shakur is just too loud to be hidden. However the pulling again of handbags might be an actual challenge, mark my phrases. Quickly sufficient, when the grooming stage is over, Saudi-controlled fighters will discover the Saudi bucks not as free-flowing as they as soon as have been.
WBC/Turki/Bivol/David Benavidez
Hello Magno.
Very long time reader, first time mail sack contributor.
I’ve been watching the WBC’s strikes in latest days and the way they’ve been subtly pushing again in opposition to Turki Alalshikh. The stripping of Dmitry Bivol and awarding of the WBC belt to David Benavidez appears to be simply the newest installment of a public energy play.
Am I loopy in pondering this? Am I imagining issues? The place do you suppose that is headed?
Thanks for all the time maintaining issues actual. In a world the place each author appears to be on the market, you’ve all the time been an equal alternative shit talker. We’d like extra of that.
– Jason N.
Hey Jason.
I posted this on my Twitter account (@boxing_tribune) the opposite day:
“The WBC’s latest passive-aggressive stabs at Turki, who plans on working them into irrelevance, are amusing…It is like watching the prelude to a Dahmer vs. Gacy knife battle…”In opposition to each” is the proper aspect to take with this one…”
The passive-aggressive beef actually began after Turki and his gobblers introduced that they might be teaming up with TKO/Dana White and that their purpose was to determine their very own champions (and “crush” opposition). Not like different boxing enterprise individuals, who swallowed the “we’re gonna run you out of city” implications and went about their enterprise, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman appears to have, understandably, crawled into his feelies a bit.
Attempting to power Bivol into a compulsory protection in opposition to Benavidez was a big-time “daddy, take note of me” transfer. Stripping Bivol of the belt and giving it to Benavidez was extra of a “daddy, I hate you now…take note of me” transfer. And let’s not overlook Sulaiman leaping to (re)order Shakur Stevenson-William Zepeda after Stevenson went public along with his cash points involving Turki.
In the end, WBC vs. Turki is hustler vs. hustler (though Turki represents the extra damaging of the 2 hustlers). I’m solely mildly as a result of I discover the posturing considerably amusing.
I do really feel unhealthy for the fighters, although, who’re caught within the center. Bivol shouldn’t have needed to vacate. I feel it’s honest to permit him the Beterbiev rubber match. Benavidez, in the meantime, doesn’t deserve any derision for taking what was handed to him. He’s gone about his enterprise and has carried out issues precisely as they need to be carried out. He’s simply run afoul of enterprise maneuverings which have stored him from the alternatives he must be having.
When bullshitters hurl shit at each other, everybody round them tends to get splattered
Jaron Ennis vs. Eimantas Stanionis
Paulie Mags!
Give me your ideas on Boots vs. Stanionis this Saturday and I’ll lay a bundle on what you choose. You bought to be leaning on Boots, proper?
– Clyde
Hey Clyde.
Geeez, I don’t need that form of stress. I’ll simply make an off-the-cuff suggestion and you are able to do what you need with it.
Jaron Ennis SHOULD win on Saturday. He’s extra gifted, extra expert, and simply all-around higher. He’s going through a man in Stanionis who’s solely fought as soon as in about three years. Every little thing, together with momentum and the all-important residence discipline (residence promotion) benefit is working in Boots’ favor.
However…
The betting odds have Stanionis as a +400 underdog and I completely do NOT really feel that he’s that a lot of an underdog.
Stanionis has the form of lively, in-your-face type that may give Ennis some points, particularly because the battle wears on. Ennis has had issues with these sorts of fighters, at the least in spots.
Ennis is one of the best fighter Stanionis has confronted, but it surely may be argued that Stanionis is one of the best Ennis has confronted. It must be an in depth battle. You probably have a couple of dollars you don’t thoughts risking, I’d put a modest wager on the upset. The percentages, at the least proper now, are near being too good to go up.
For shits and giggles, I’d put a couple of dollars on Stanionis by resolution.
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