Savage Made…”Rick Reeno allegedly aka BigPoppaPump Left After Garry Jonas Acquisition!!!…What’s The Beef???…”

Rick Reeno is the founder and former owner of BoxingScene. He continued to run the site after selling it to CBS Sports Digital in 2018. Reeno left when CBS sold it to ProBox/Jonas last year. He then began working for Alalshikh and is now the chief operating officer of The Ring. “Every week,” Donovan asserted, “came a phone call or text from Rick Reeno, either asking me to take down a post or questioning its intention anytime Turki or our own social media team caught wind of something.” As just one example, Donovan was surprised to see Joseph Parker among the announced list of nominees for The Ring’s 2024 Fighter of the Year when Parker had fought only once that year (a close decision win over Zhilei Zhang). Parker had not been put forward during the editorial staff’s discussion of nominees for the award. Donovan posted on his X account that the “objective reporter in me wonders how Joseph Parker is up for Fighter of the Year.” He didn’t say it publicly, but he suspected Alalshikh’s people had forced Parker’s name onto the list. Parker is signed with Queensberry Promotions, and his past four fights have all been staged in Riyadh. Reeno wrote to him: “if possible, can you remove that Parker tweet, getting so much heat over that,” and Donovan did delete the post. Another source confirmed this structural approach, whereby Reeno is the messenger and therefore Alalshikh is able to keep his hands clean by not dealing directly with writers and editors. I sent two messages to Reeno last week seeking comment and received no response. https://www.boxingscene.com/articles/riyadh-season-has-boxing-media-independence-on-the-ropes