Originally posted by The Big Dunn
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Also, Ward can't draw gate or ratings and HBO is getting tired of overpaying for garbage fights for him with no clear path in mind of where the hell his career is going. Despite his P4P credentials, he has no other money fights besides Kovalev. Similarly, Kovalev has no other big fight besides Stevenson which looks unlikely. Economics will force that one to happen IMO.
However, despite these surrounding facts & circumstances that I think makes both of those fights likely, in the abstract sense, you're right, I shouldn't excuse Kovalev-Pascal II or GGG-Wade (although that is a mando) on the theory that the good fights we all really want are just around the corner.
But I kind of did, didn't I, in my last post. I think a lot of other people do as well, consciously or not. And you'll often hear the Haymon cheerleaders get up in arms about double-standards but something just dawned on me:
This shows you how dumb it is to have a "no speaking to the media" policy. If you give starving people a pile of **** but you promise that if they eat it, you'll feed them real food, you'll probably get the poor bastards to eat ****.
And then you might come up with a good excuse as to why you weren't able to deliver the food after they ate the first bowl of ****, and you actually get them to eat another bowl before you finally feed them actual food. And when they finally get the food they're so happy they can forget about the **** they had to go through to get it.
Haymon just serves the very same starving people regular helpings of free ****, but without saying anything at all. The people say, "Jesus Al can't you see I'm starving, what good is a bowl of **** going to do me?" Al just stares back blankly and says nothing. There's no empathy with their plight.
Unlike rival promoters, or HBO, Haymon's bowl of **** doesn't come with a promise that good eats are coming soon if they'll just promise to eat a bowl of **** or two. And so the people just sit around and say, "Why does this mysterious stranger -- seemingly aware of my hunger -- keep giving me bowls of ****? ... and when is this **** EVER going to end?
Then when Al finally throws them some food it's too late -- the people have already grown to hate him and they're thinking, "Well Jesus, he ignored us for God knows how long -- I mean, after all this ****, it's about time ...
And then you might come up with a good excuse as to why you weren't able to deliver the food after they ate the first bowl of ****, and you actually get them to eat another bowl before you finally feed them actual food. And when they finally get the food they're so happy they can forget about the **** they had to go through to get it.
Haymon just serves the very same starving people regular helpings of free ****, but without saying anything at all. The people say, "Jesus Al can't you see I'm starving, what good is a bowl of **** going to do me?" Al just stares back blankly and says nothing. There's no empathy with their plight.
Unlike rival promoters, or HBO, Haymon's bowl of **** doesn't come with a promise that good eats are coming soon if they'll just promise to eat a bowl of **** or two. And so the people just sit around and say, "Why does this mysterious stranger -- seemingly aware of my hunger -- keep giving me bowls of ****? ... and when is this **** EVER going to end?
Then when Al finally throws them some food it's too late -- the people have already grown to hate him and they're thinking, "Well Jesus, he ignored us for God knows how long -- I mean, after all this ****, it's about time ...
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