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The media is so off on boxing. Just because they dont cover it doesnt mean it's dead. Hockey still gets covered by the mainstream media, and for what? If you compare boxing and hockey, it's not even close. Boxing makes more money, and has more fans worldwide.
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Yeah!!!!!
**** the media. They are all just a bunch of ****ing sheep who follow the flock and say what is fashionable. Right now it is fashionable to say that boxing is dying and needs to be saved and whatever the **** else.
Props to Greenberg for stepping up and defending the sport.Comment
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And the worst part is if you ask them a question about it, they couldnt tell you anything, so they will use that same ****** ass excuse, "it's dead."
The talent pool isn't down. The personalities are there. The exciting fights are there. Nothing is dead about it.Comment
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Its about damn time someone big stepped up and said something.Well done.Comment
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Much respect to Ross Greenburg. Finally somebody stood up for boxing. Sports Illustraded = no boxing.Comment
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johnathon banks and andy lee are fighting right down the street from me on november 15th... i have already gotten 12 people asking me about tickets and times from a ******* bulletin, and theyre not even serious fansComment
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This is the problem with the mainstream media. I'm pretty sure that they DID run those articles. They probably talked about Mayweather - De La Hoya being the last ever superfight before boxing dies permanently. I didn't actually read the articles from SI, but since all of the other mainstream sports media wrote this and like I said, they are all a bunch of ****ing sheep who plagarize each other, I'm pretty sure SI probably wrote it as well.
It was like that idiot from ESPN The Magazine. He wrote an article saying the same things about De La Hoya - Mayweather (because these nitwits have no orginal thoughts).
This ESPN guy, got to a point in his article where he was going to list the ten reasons to still watch boxing. I was thinking "OK, here we go, some positive publicity". This idiot makes a list of: 1) Oscar De La Hoya, and then says that there are no other reasons to watch boxing. If he did any research at all he would have found out that there are several fighters in the sport who are both more talented and more exciting that De La Hoya. If he was a decent writer with half a brain he would have dug up people like Juan Diaz, who is an ultra-talented, extremely exciting fighter, who is doing a freaking law degree on the side. Of course that would involve something called RESEARCH. This RESEARCH phenomenon is an ancient practice done my writers with an ounce of professionalism and journalistic integrity, which didn't apply to this moron. How in the **** was he writing for a prominent sports publication? I don't know. I guess it is a positive example to all the ****** and lazy people in the world that says don't worry, you can get a decent job afterall.
I went off topic with that rant. Lets just say I really share everybody's frustration with biased and uninformed writers.Comment
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Yes. That's why SI only trickles outside of North America...and in this case, I'm excluding Mexico from "North America". I don't think SI sells all that well in Mexico, which is part of North America.
Edit: I think the Dow and Bloomberg beat it in circulation/site hits outside of North America. And, there should not even be more people interested in US stock prices than in sports beyond the US and Canadian borders! This makes SI a "regional" publication. Definitely not one that has international scope.Last edited by grayfist; 10-23-2007, 01:50 AM.Comment
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HBO needs to make a special about how SPORTS WRITERS ARE A DYING BREED, then write a letter the SI and be like, "Our special on sports writers had more viewers than your magazine has had subscribers in the last 20 years."Comment
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