Let's say Wilder floors the dude like he did the Polish fella, Breazeale is taken to the hospital, put in a coma, and gets taken off life support 3 days later. What happens to boxing after a guy SAYS he wants to kill a guy and then actually does it? You can fully expect an argument would be made that we're actually paying men to kill other men on TV, for sport.
Does boxing yet pulled off network TV?
Do major advertisers flee?
Does congress get involved?
Or, does it just look real bad but society moves on, like when a celeb gets away with killing their spouse (Simpson, Blake, etc)?
Randomly another underrated angle to this is how much do Law Of Attraction books get bought in the aftermath of Breazeale's death if Wilder spoke it into existence?
Or how much does Law Of Attraction take a hit if Wilder fails to kill Breazeale on Saturday?
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Oh, gawd. I can only imagine how ^that would get spliced in with clips of the punches that ended Breazeale's life.
While I don't think there's much of a chance of any of this happening, it's interesting to speculate the fallout of something like this because there's always the possibility.
Plenty of people have died in the ring. The question is how would it effect Wilder? I dont think he as sadistic as a Sergey. Wudnt be suprised if it fcked him up mentally. Wilder at heart is a good guy.
Would be a segment on ESPN. Then the sports world goes back to caring about the NBA playoffs. Some may be overestimating how relevant boxing and the athletes involved are.
Oh boy, I hadn't actually considered this. ****, my initial reaction was, not that much would probably change after being headline news for a week or 2. But the more I think about it and the general shift towards safety in American sports, I think it may honestly be the end of boxing in the US if that happens. Certainly the worst case scenario for the sport and I bet all the powers in boxing would come together to try to shift all the negative press directly on Wilder to save their own tails. I honestly believe you would see a huge push from the general public to have the sport banned in this country if that happened.
This is boxing and everyone who steps in that ring knows the danger.
That said, I never want that to happen but it's a reality of the sport.
The issue is Wilder was on ESPN etc talking about it, so if something does happen it'll hurt boxing.
That's the American HW Champion.
Nothing, deaths in the ring happen.
I doubt it happens anyway. Breaze is probably big, strong, powerful enough to withstand a TKO loss by Wilder. He is a 6'7", 250+ lb professional boxer with 20 wins and 18 KO's, with 1 loss to the best ranked HW, Anthony Joshua. He will make it. This is no longer the HW division that Wlad ruled, being the bigger, taller man in every fight. We now have top 3 HW's who are pretty similar in size/height/reach. Joshua, Wilder, Fury. While Breaze is not in the top 10, I think he can take a beating and stand back up, he's a big guy. This isn't Khan going up to fight Canelo, or Brook going to fight GGG, or Mikey going up to fight Spence. Breaze is a full-fledged, big HW. Wilder is probably going to KO him, but he's not going to kill him lol.
Realistically, the media will cry in outrage for a day while non-boxing fans post smartass comments on Twitter about how Breazeale was asking for it since boxing is all about punching people in the head. Then a Kardashian gives birth or Trump says literally anything and the media will move on to its next story.
No they won't.
Non boxing fans will call for the sport to be banned worldwide.
There's so much money involved in boxing, I wouldn't be surprised if the outcry for boxing's neck was dismissed after a couple of weeks.
He'd be force to apologize, suspended for sometime and pay a hefty fine. A year or two later, he's back punching people in the heavyweight division.
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Realistically, the media will cry in outrage for a day while non-boxing fans post smartass comments on Twitter about how Breazeale was asking for it since boxing is all about punching people in the head. Then a Kardashian gives birth or Trump says literally anything and the media will move on to its next story.
That’s accurate af
Realistically, the media will cry in outrage for a day while non-boxing fans post smartass comments on Twitter about how Breazeale was asking for it since boxing is all about punching people in the head. Then a Kardashian gives birth or Trump says literally anything and the media will move on to its next story.