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    A HUGE problem within our sport…

    It’s ironic because I literally just saw this play out over the last week with the guy. I kind of know.

    One of the worst things EVER in boxing… is when you get someone who really doesn’t know the sport inside and out, but they open a gym and have fighters who they are responsible for (because the process of becoming a licensed coach is a joke) and end up leading them to slaughter purely out of their own ignorance.

    They have no idea what they are doing, and are easily fooled and misled by booking agents, matchmakers and promoters on the professional level who literally play them like violins in order to do one thing and one thing only and that is to use their fighters as sacrificial lambs… these complete idiots find out how easy it is to turn one of their amateur boxers professional but once they sign that paper, they become sitting ducks for people in the game who are just waiting to brutally use them up without a care in the world for them.

    The gym owner/“trainer” thinks he’s this big shot mover and shaker now because he got a guy on a card somewhere -maybe even on the televised undercard- and he plays the role of the big shot all over the Internet, bragging about the upcoming fight without having any idea that they have been pulled right into their own destruction.

    Their unsuspecting young “fighter” (who should never go pro in a million years!!) who foolishly and na�vely trusts this CLOWN to take care of him, is going to get brutalized because his career is in the hands of someone who has no idea what they are doing and is nothing but a wanna be in the sport.

    In one regard, our sport IS in fact a JOKE. Only in boxing can you get a license with your name on it as a “professional” even when the fact is, you are nothing even close to being one.

    #YouCantWaitBecauseYOUarentTheOneFighting​

    #2
    Everybody has to walk their own path. Who are we to judge?

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      #3
      Scully’s point is completely valid. This isn’t the type of craft you wanna’ go into half-assing it.

      It’s not like when you go to college to try out and see if X or Y is right for you to major in. Or deciding to try and pick up skateboarding.

      You’re getting hit in the head…and being ill-prepared by a guy who’s fluffing you up just to get a piece of the pie is, quite frankly, someone who should at the bare minimum should have SOME experience in the ring or some accolades in the business.

      This sport business is slimy and dangerous. NBA/NFL/MLB/NHL have regulations…this one is just a bunch of independent parties carrying a stable of fighters and hoping their horse wins. Only there’s no ball…it’s your head getting bashed for peanuts in the early going for a starting out “professional” boxer.

      It looks absolutely glamorous on HBO (back in the HBO days) and on all these high production cards today, but this is some high-pressure, highly tense job when you punch the clock.

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        #4
        Originally posted by TintaBoricua View Post
        Scully’s point is completely valid. This isn’t the type of craft you wanna’ go into half-assing it.

        It’s not like when you go to college to try out and see if X or Y is right for you to major in. Or deciding to try and pick up skateboarding.

        You’re getting hit in the head…and being ill-prepared by a guy who’s fluffing you up just to get a piece of the pie is, quite frankly, someone who should at the bare minimum should have SOME experience in the ring or some accolades in the business.

        This sport business is slimy and dangerous. NBA/NFL/MLB/NHL have regulations…this one is just a bunch of independent parties carrying a stable of fighters and hoping their horse wins. Only there’s no ball…it’s your head getting bashed for peanuts in the early going for a starting out “professional” boxer.

        It looks absolutely glamorous on HBO (back in the HBO days) and on all these high production cards today, but this is some high-pressure, highly tense job when you punch the clock.
        1000000 pct. The New York Yankees, the Boston Celtics, the Los Angeles Dodgers would NEVER allow someone within their organization as incompetent and inexperienced as we allow in ours.

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          #5
          yeah the pay is very very low too and the health risks are massive. it has to be a very careful decision or you are just going to be a bum to pad someones record and get paid peanuts for it

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            #6
            The guys who handled George Tahdooahnippah come to mind - George was an up-and-coming KO artist in Oklahoma. He'd fought nothing but F-list opponents, and went from that to one day being booked to fight Delvin Rodriguez on ESPN.

            His promoter posted on Facebook asking what round was George gonna KO Delvin, and got pissed when I responded "Delvin by KO." We were friendly with each other, and he was pretty surprised by my reply. Asked how could I pick our undefeated Oklahoma guy to lose against a guy with six losses?

            At that moment I realized the guy had no clue what he was doing. Most of Delvin's losses had been robberies or SDs, and he'd recently ended the Pawel Wolak hype train. Delvin had a rock-solid chin and a gastank to go for 12 rounds - all wrong for an inexperienced KO artist. Putting a guy who had never fought anything resembling a challenge in with Delvin was insanity. Did he not know who Delvin was? If not, had he not researched???

            Of course, Delvin gave him a career-altering beatdown. Pretty eye opening to see firsthand... dude just got thrown to the wolves.
            Last edited by paulf; 07-02-2025, 01:54 AM.

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              #7
              This isn't happening in a vacuum. US culture generally is designed to encourage grifters. Lack of regulation plus greed leads to these outcomes.

              I've noticed with some amusement that during this psychedelic renaissance the space has become flooded with American males attempting to sell branded packets of crap for something that can be grown cheaply and naturally by anyone.

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