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I still believe what $ they can generate depends greatly on what each fighter represents as a symbol. That both shall be superlative combatants is the other important detail. When each represents something bigger, the fight promotes itself.
These days there is a continual transparent effort from promoters to pretend certain fighters are household names, or represent millions of people. The most common fact, constantly abused and brought up for money, is Mexican heritage. Tie yourself to Mexican heritage and you are supposed to be tough. It doesn't matter if you are the Derrick Gainer of Mexicans. If anyone questions your toughness, you simply say with a deliberate scowl, "I am a Mexican." But if anyone questions your intelligence, then you say with the same scowl, "I am not a Mexican."
De La Hoya, and Canelo under his guidance, have yammered so much in the press about Mexican fighters, mixed in with the promotional lies, mis-insinuations, rationalizations and justifications, they have themselves believing their own dissembling. I say Canelo represents all Mexicans that look Irish. That must be quite a handful.
MMA chose the promotional style of professional wrestling rather than challenging boxing in its own corporate domain. The presentstion of its live shows has progressively grown more WWE-like. In UFC you have a ring announcer screaming as if microphones are a decade away or he has rabies, fight announcers screaming from teleprompters and emotion, or rabies. The music is so loud that standing next to a revving jet engine without earplugs is the nearest equivalent. Everyone and everything involved tries to act as if this is it! And it is driving them not to excitement, but to panting delerium. The whole thing is so put on it is sickening.
Few of boxing's more reserved and dignified traditions are retained. Gone are the days of cigar smoke-filled auditoriums, and press rows with the likes of Jimmy Cannon and Ring Lardner. Boxing tradition is not only older, but disproportionately richer than it should be comparitively, because MMA chose a vacuous, lowbrow model it could steal from wrestling. It took the easy way and it has a lack of history to show for that.
I find the format of a boxing presentation much more interesting and entertaining than paid halfwits yelling nonstop. The MMA crowd is younger than the boxing crowd. Everything is transient in their world of distraction and counter distraction. I find UFC tradition particularly vacuous and bereft of wider meaning or connotation. Theirs is strictly the comic book approach to tradition and promotion. Listen to one of their announcers call a highlight tape. He will sound more delerious than the most excited live caller of a boxing match you can ever think of.
They constantly try to make up a lasting anchor and tradition, by referring to their history a lot, yet it is a history filled with WWE type fanfare and ******ity more like distrubing the peace than announcing a fight.
Maybe they will come up with some angle that allows them to draw a huge gate. What they have will never do it. Perhaps the new Chinese owners realize this. I do not care myself. Their presentation is as frantic as The Price Is Right, and that drives me away.
These days there is a continual transparent effort from promoters to pretend certain fighters are household names, or represent millions of people. The most common fact, constantly abused and brought up for money, is Mexican heritage. Tie yourself to Mexican heritage and you are supposed to be tough. It doesn't matter if you are the Derrick Gainer of Mexicans. If anyone questions your toughness, you simply say with a deliberate scowl, "I am a Mexican." But if anyone questions your intelligence, then you say with the same scowl, "I am not a Mexican."
De La Hoya, and Canelo under his guidance, have yammered so much in the press about Mexican fighters, mixed in with the promotional lies, mis-insinuations, rationalizations and justifications, they have themselves believing their own dissembling. I say Canelo represents all Mexicans that look Irish. That must be quite a handful.
MMA chose the promotional style of professional wrestling rather than challenging boxing in its own corporate domain. The presentstion of its live shows has progressively grown more WWE-like. In UFC you have a ring announcer screaming as if microphones are a decade away or he has rabies, fight announcers screaming from teleprompters and emotion, or rabies. The music is so loud that standing next to a revving jet engine without earplugs is the nearest equivalent. Everyone and everything involved tries to act as if this is it! And it is driving them not to excitement, but to panting delerium. The whole thing is so put on it is sickening.
Few of boxing's more reserved and dignified traditions are retained. Gone are the days of cigar smoke-filled auditoriums, and press rows with the likes of Jimmy Cannon and Ring Lardner. Boxing tradition is not only older, but disproportionately richer than it should be comparitively, because MMA chose a vacuous, lowbrow model it could steal from wrestling. It took the easy way and it has a lack of history to show for that.
I find the format of a boxing presentation much more interesting and entertaining than paid halfwits yelling nonstop. The MMA crowd is younger than the boxing crowd. Everything is transient in their world of distraction and counter distraction. I find UFC tradition particularly vacuous and bereft of wider meaning or connotation. Theirs is strictly the comic book approach to tradition and promotion. Listen to one of their announcers call a highlight tape. He will sound more delerious than the most excited live caller of a boxing match you can ever think of.
They constantly try to make up a lasting anchor and tradition, by referring to their history a lot, yet it is a history filled with WWE type fanfare and ******ity more like distrubing the peace than announcing a fight.
Maybe they will come up with some angle that allows them to draw a huge gate. What they have will never do it. Perhaps the new Chinese owners realize this. I do not care myself. Their presentation is as frantic as The Price Is Right, and that drives me away.
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