Brian Kenny: Top Rank Tool?

[Ray*]

My problem isnt the fact that he wanted to called out Mayweather on certain things which he thinks he want/need to address but why doesnt he do the same to everyone of the boxers that come on ESPN???

He was all loved up when Mosley was on there, You cant be biase if you're a respected Journalist if you are then you have zero credibility.

[fdotorres]

you ARE supposed to fight any and everybody that calls you out...right??

nope, wrong

[WhoreUs]

as for the top rank thing.

when kenny suggested that floyd should fight baldomir and hatton back in 2006 , was either with top rank?

i could be wrong but i don't think either was with top rank.

it was common sense. zab judah had just lost a fight why fight him? baldomir was the 147 lineal champ and hatton was the 140 lineal champ.

it's natural that he brings these 2 names up as possible opponents.

in the recent interview he suggested floyd fight pacquiao and mosley.

who hasn't suggested a floyd fight with pacquiao or mosley?

common sense. he's just asking questions everyone would ask.

[WhoreUs]

My problem isnt the fact that he wanted to called out Mayweather on certain things which he thinks he want/need to address but why doesnt he do the same to everyone of the boxers that come on ESPN???

He was all loved up when Mosley was on there, You cant be biase if you're a respected Journalist if you are then you have zero credibility.

he called out a lot of people before especially on FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS.

and it's not calling out , it's asking questions.

you obviously don't see much ESPN.

[WhoreUs]

Am amaze he hasnt been called out on that to be honest...They should playback the video to him where he accuse Mayweather of ducking Baldomir and Hatton like one of these little dumb "boxing" fan on boxingscene.

he asked why not fight baldomir and hatton instead of zab.

the fact that floyd fought those 2 afterwards showed he was right in asking the question.

lmfao

floyd stans are so dumb.

[krispy kreme]

By Paul Magno





I have long yearned for a journalist with the bravery, integrity, and drive to go after all the evil aspects and shady characters in the sport. Brian Kenny looked and sounded the part during his most recent interview with Floyd Mayweather Jr.

However, Kenny missed one key point: He has to be aggressive and self-righteous with all of his guests and not just one guy on two brief occasions in several years as co-anchor of ESPN's Friday Night Fights.

To just go for the neck against one guy in a career of Regis-style glad-handing and sucking up looks more than shady. It makes Mr. Kenny look like he has a personal axe to grind with Mayweather and it puts into question everything Kenny says concerning all things Mayweather.

The tiff between Mayweather and Kenny started back in 2006. Mayweather was doing publicity for his fight with Zab Judah and Kenny questioned Floyd's lack of desire to fight Carlos Baldomir and Ricky Hatton.

Kenny went on the offensive in that interview and smugly challenged Mayweather, "...he's (Hatton) coming to Las Vegas for his next fight and he's probably going to fight for the Welterweight title...What will you do then?"

Kenny, in that same interview, would flatly state that Mayweather's win over Arturo Gatti for the WBC title at 140 was not a real world title win.

That was a ballsy statement to make to a fighter's face, but it was 100 percent disingenuous, since Kenny never makes those declarations against other guests holding, as he said, "paper championships."

Kenny has gushed over Pacquiao's win over "paper champion" David Diaz at 135 and has never challenged an interview subject with accusations of being a paper champion, if not holding the lineal title.

Now, in Brian Kenny's latest interview with Floyd Mayweather, Kenny has seemingly adopted Top Rank talking points, almost verbatim, when questioning Floyd.

Kenny questioned Mayweather's timing in announcing his comeback on the same day as the Pacquiao/Hatton bout on May 2; He pushed Shane Mosley between Mayweather and Pacquiao, almost as though using Mosley to run interference for Pacquiao.

He even, in the matter of just a few minutes, managed to insinuate Pacquiao as the new PPV king and push the Top Rank notion that Pacquiao's wins over Oscar De la Hoya and Ricky Hatton were infinitely more impressive than Mayweather's.

If you didn't know better, you would've thought that Bob Arum himself, and not Brian Kenny, was conducting the interview.

Mayweather was the same smug Mayweather throughout, but Kenny had obviously been dreaming of the day when he could have a rematch with Floyd and tell him that he was no longer pound-for-pound No. 1 because Mayweather had "informed Ring Magazine" that he was retiring.

This latest interview with Mayweather made Kenny look extremely bad. The damage it did to his reputation as a fair and even-handed journalist was further highlighted on his Friday Night Fights show, where the interview was shown again and Kenny used in-studio guest, Freddie Roach, to affirm his positions.

The contrasted cuts from a smug, passive-aggressive interview with Mayweather to loving glances at Roach, followed by softball questions, was damning evidence that Kenny is simply not someone ever willing to take a fair approach to any topic labeled "Mayweather."

Worst of all, Brian has to be executing these ambush jobs with the full understanding of what he's doing. Kenny is not some simple talking suit behind a desk, he does have a working knowledge of the sport.

So, when he attacks Mayweather for not fighting Pacquiao or Mosley immediately after a 19-month lay-off, he has to be doing so with the full understanding that nobody would be dumb enough to take on two of the best fighters in the world after such an inactive period without a tune-up first.

Even if Mayweather's ego doesn't permit him to admit that he needs a tune-up fight to shake off the rust of inactivity, Kenny should know that...Either that or maybe Floyd was right and Kenny knows nothing about the sport...Or, also plausible, maybe Kenny has found his way into a specific promoter's back pocket.

Nah, I think he is just a fight fan. He gives his opinion and some Mayweather fans don't like it.

[Ray*]

PLS what are you talkin about.
Margarito never had his chance to fight Mayweather.
Mayweather turn down 8 million to fight Margarito and he took a
fight with Zab for 2 million.

And who was his promoter when he supposely turn down $8 million to get $2 million for a judah fight??? Oh yes Bob Arum and he wasnt paid 2 million against Judah he was paid $6.75 million by Bob Arum.

[Deja_Vous]

nope, wrong

Floyd seems to be the only fighter that is required to fight everybody that casually mentions his name.

[TheGreatA]

I don't think Kenny was necessarily accusing Mayweather of ducking anybody. It's his job to ask boxers who they are going to fight (or not fight) next. Back then it wasn't known whether Mayweather was going to fight Baldomir and Hatton or not, the only thing people knew was that Mayweather would fight Judah for a paper title.

Lets not forget that he asked Mosley without hesitation whether he used steroids or not. I think that's a tough question to ask.

[Ray*]

he asked why not fight baldomir and hatton instead of zab.

the fact that floyd fought those 2 afterwards showed he was right in asking the question.

lmfao

floyd stans are so dumb.

Know he didnt ask, He accuse Mayweather of ducking and if you and Kinney dont know, It takes time for fights to happen in boxing, And it takes 2 to tango.

When the fight was right he fought both of them which mean Kenny was owned and he beat both again owned...I swear Floyd Haters are ******ed.