Boxing fans are on life support because of guys like Charlo Alvarez Golovkin.
Charlo Alvarez Golovkin. Some people can’t understand why the sport of boxing for all its glitz and glamour is a fraction of what it was in its glory years.
Jermell Charlo, Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez are no Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns. And I must add Roberto Duran also. These guys are not even close.
Real boxing fans miss the days when the best fought the best. Two great warriors doing battle.
Today there is absolutely no belt pride. Guys throw belts in the garbage for a couple of extra dollars. I don’t know where this selfish attitude of it’s all about money came from.
When did this cancer sneak into boxing. Boxing has never been about the money. It was about becoming a Champion. Being able to unequivocally say I AM THE BEST!!!
There where a multitude of fighters who didn’t get rich moneywise, but where RICH!
Guys would be broke living in a rooming house, but if you checked their closet there would be the one thing in the world they were proud of in there.
An old rusted Championship belt. That’s called belt pride.
Some of these men carried the scars of a brutal career on their faces, and the wars had taken terrible tolls on there bodies and minds.
But if you got close enough to them to listen to their raspy voice, they would whisper to you “Hey Son, Check This Out; and pull an old faded, ancient newspaper clipping from out of their pocket and proudly show you a picture of them in their heyday.
You see they had something better than money. They had memories of a time when they were the best, the CHAMPION!!
WHY THE BUSINESS WORLD IS RUINING BOXING TRADITION.
Todays group of fighters, (and I use that word loosely) are more businessman than warrior. When the hell did the Harvard business template become the accepted modus operandi for the measure of a successful boxing career?
Words like Masters degree, MBA, Marketing, Finance, Business Analytics, Target Audience, Demographics have NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO place in boxing, or dam well should not have.
Every young kid in boxing now is more concerned about getting famous on social media than actually learning how to fight.
Promoters give the fighters tickets to sell now to their own fights now. What kind of bull$hit is that? Kids fight 3 or 4 fights now and brag about being 4-0 with 4 kos.
These same kids think they deserve to be in stadiums that hold 70,000 people, when they cant sell 4 tickets.
WHY THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS NOBODY WILL FIGHT DEMETRIUS ANDRADE
When I hear Charlo, Alvarez, and Golovkin talk about how they are the best it aggravates me.
Not because they will not face Demetrius Andrade. But because being a ex-pro fighter, I can’t for the sake of me understand how they can sleep at night.
Take Canelo for instance. He would rather vacate his belt, which really means throw it in the trash than fight a man who called him a bitch on YouTube over and over for years.
Now I know you can counter with sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. But we are not in the 4th grade.
If art imitates life. Then when Apollo Creed called Rocky a chicken in Rocky 2, and that got Rocky in the ring, then calling a supposed proud champion a bitch should be enough to do the trick.
Is it gonna take Demetrius resorting to Clubber Lang tactics and inviting his woman to a romp in the sack with the line “BRING YOUR PRETTY LITTLE SELF TO MY PAD AND LET ME SHOW YOU A REAL MAN” before he grow some cojones and tells his master Im fighting, I don’t care what you say.
Hey pretty lady, Let me show you a real man
Clubber Lane
Canelo, it’s time you stood up to Oscar. He is doing the same thing to Demetrius that Bob Arum did to Floyd Mayweather back in the day.
Arum knew you were the golden boy gold medalist which made you marketable. And as sad as this is to say, the black community does not come to fill seats for their fighters like the Hispanic community supports theirs.
So he chose the money. YOU are choosing the money now.
WHY IS IT DON KING PUT ON QUALITY FIGHTS
Which brings me to Charlo and his puppet master Al Haymon.
This guy was on record recently saying when Eddie Hearn sent him an offer, he sent it to Big Al at headquarters, and was told to ignore the offer.
And to answer reporters by saying it is not enough money. What is enough money?
The excuse that he is not known enough translated means, the fight is not worth enough money.
Whatever happened to let’s fight because I’m the Champ? He has a belt.
He is the most dangerous fighter out there. Did Ray Leonard duck Tommy Hearns? Boxing is dying because there was a time when the fan base dictated who fights who.
Fans can holler……let me scratch that, REAL fans can holler and are ignored. These days boxing is like politics in that, politicians can be jackasses and the people have no power to change anything anymore.
They basically say, WE HAVE THE POWER so shut up. We will do whatever we like. You don’t like it, too bad.
WHO IS AL HAYMON
Al Haymon (born April 21, 1955) is an American businessman and boxing manager. He was the manager to Floyd Mayweather Jr. and has won the Boxing Writers of America Manager of the Year Award a total of five times.
WHY DEMETRIUS ANDRADE IS BLACKBALLED IN BOXING
I can’t prove this. And it’s just a theory of mine, but I sincerely think this whole blacklist of Demetrius Andrade is do to nothing but hurt feelings and stubbornness.
I remember Demetrius was fresh out the Olympics. Everybody knew he was the man and wanted to sign him. Al Haymon offered him a deal to fight one of the Charlos with the intention of making him a superstar.
He was supposed to fight on a network. Demetrius was contacted by Roc Nation Sports. They offered him a ton of money. Problem was he had an obligation to Al.
Contracts are a hell of a thing. Demetrius made the mistake of believing Roc Nation and reneged on the fight deal with Al, and pulled out the fight.
By the way this would technically make Charlo absolutely correct when he says Demetrius pulled out of a fight with him. Well Roc Nation pulled their offer off the table.
And Demetrius has been left in purgatory every since. He had to sue Roc Nation, and Al went on to make Charlo a star. Charlo Alvarez Golovkin all went on to superstardom.
Now it’s all water under the bridge. The casual fans are clamoring for the fight, and die-hard fans are retarded with desire to see this match-up.
People make mistakes and feelings and egos get bruised. But this is NOT a reason to ruin a guys career, or deprive the ordinary Joes the opportunity to see great fights.
Some of the people that spend $100 dollars to watch these fights on pay-per-view, are people that struggle to put a chicken leg on the dinner table.
I’m one of these people. Where is my respect?
WHY MARVIN HAGLER WOULD BEAT CHARLO, ALVAREZ AND GOLOVKIN
The only thing I really got to say about Golovkin is, his team doesnt think its enough money in the fight so they are really not interested.
And that all goes back to the money thing. What’s more important, money or legacy.
To all four of these great warriors thank you for giving us the opportunity to enjoy watching what years of dedication ultimately turns into.
The artistry of the greatest sport on this planet. Hats off to all four of our Champions!!
CHARLO, ALVAREZ, GOLOVKIN. WHO IS CANELO ALVAREZ?
Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán (American Spanish: [saˈul ˈalβaɾes]; born 18 July 1990), popularly known as Canelo Álvarez, is a Mexican professional boxer. He has won multiple world championships in four weight classes from light middleweight to light heavyweight, including unified titles in three of those weight classes and lineal titles in two. Álvarez is the first boxer in history to become undisputed champion at super middleweight, having held the WBA (Super), WBC and Ring magazine titles since 2020, the WBO title since May 2021, and the IBF title since November 2021.
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