Beyond Boxing

You can't promise history and then expect us to praise effort.

This whole Usyk-Dubois experience has felt like a massive ponzi scheme, with only the boing fans losing out again...

My sense is that Usyk learned from the first fight, make adjustments based on what he saw and felt, delivering a completely different performance.

We saw the Same DDD two years later, maybe at a lower level.

We have to ask why.

Usyk is the greatest heavyweight of this generation and maybe the greatest boxer of this generation.

That’s the headline.

Boxing is a cruel game, made even worse when you. Arty the burden of the family name on your back. But, we are now seeing that you cannot escape the fundamentals of boxing - sacrifice, skill, strength and grit - no matter who your dad is.

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My two oence, I think Campbell Hatton had the hardest job, replacing a man that many still remember fighting and the first Brit to have their career enshrined on social media.

It was always going to be hard.

Benn-Eubank II and Canelo-Crawford are cartoon fights.

These are fights that are just there to keep revenue ticking over. These are not fights the fans really care about - maybe the hardcores at a push, but that's about it.

Boxing will struggle until boxing fans demand real fights over action movies.

You can’t say you’re a free agent on your promoter’s show.

It was a poor decision by Richardaon Hitchins and maybe it reflect the overall lowering of standards in boxing.

The Fabio Wardley fairytale continues.

The Callum Simpson trim nearly detailed

Boxxer are set for a full reboot.

…Only in boxing

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The main question this pod is…WHO IS RUNNING BOXING?

Boxing is such a cruel sport.

By winning. Dave Allen has increased his earning potential significantly and in losing Johnny Fisher has very tough career choices to make.

It is a reminder that as much as Boxing is something that we has fans look at as fun, to those in the ring it is deadly serious and because it is deadly serious it is very important to have the right team around you.

That includes your trainer and in many cases, and it’s not just Johnny Fisher, boxers have been trained by people who will never be good enough to help them fulfil their potential and maybe that is the biggest danger we face in boxing right now.

Did the pandemic of 2020 do more to hurt boxing than simply deprive boxing fans of fights that they wanted to see?

As time goes on it’s clear that there’s a lost generation within Boxing a group of amateurs who missed 2.5 years of vital development that would’ve helped their career immeasurably.

As a result what we’re seeing amongst this generation is many of these boxes trying to play catch-up without being given the opportunities to catch up.

Make sure you listen to EP258 first.

There is only so much money you can throw at boxing before you get diminishing returns.

At the moment, it looks like boxers are just boxing to get paid, and have no desire to entertain the fans. The contrast between Eubank-Benn and the boxing in New York, Vegas and Saudi Arabia couldn't be more obvious.

I think we will see the Saudi's focus on the fighters that entertain and not the ones with the names. They are determined to maximise their value from boxing.