Comments Thread For: Dmitry Bivol Manager Says Money For Beterbiev Fight Is 'Coming Together', Brushes Off 'Politics'

[SteveM]

Do we overlook Saudi Arabia sportswashing just so that this fight finally gets made? An interesting moral dilemma.

The military industrial complex with all its hundreds of billions of arm sales is responsible for far more warfare and deaths over the last ??? decades than whatever Saudi Arabia has done; Saudia Arabia's complicity is but a scratch on a fetid bloated corpse in comparison - so we shouldn't conveniently choose WHICH politics gets injected into sports - it's either NO politics or ALL politics. All politics would mean the end of organised sport.

[SteveM]

Isn't Beterbiev RUSSIAN and has the WBC belt? How the **** can they not sanction thr fight.

Beterbiev can just go fight in Saudi Arabia - tear up his contract with TR - and retire winner or loser and take the 15 million he'd hopefully make. Better the Saudi's money in a boxer's pockets

[chicken-]

Isn't Beterbiev RUSSIAN and has the WBC belt? How the **** can they not sanction thr fight.

You should probably read the content before commenting.

[Canvas]

The military industrial complex with all its hundreds of billions of arm sales is responsible for far more warfare and deaths over the last ??? decades than whatever Saudi Arabia has done; Saudia Arabia's complicity is but a scratch on a fetid bloated corpse in comparison - so we shouldn't conveniently choose WHICH politics gets injected into sports - it's either NO politics or ALL politics. All politics would mean the end of organised sport.

If we started holding individual athletes to blame for the actions of their country, US citizens would be persecuted all over the world constantly. The US is by far the worlds biggest aggressor and sponsor of terrorism. Very few coups of ********ically elected governments in the last 40 years weren't executed by US funding and support. Britain has lots of blood on their hands too. These issues are nuanced.

The WBC is a joke, and Arum is a sleazy partisan of a corrupt, war mongering political party.

[Joseph]

I’ll believe it at the sound of the opening bell. Tired of getting my balls tickled but my willy completely ignored over this clash. This is THE fight I want to see most.

[TheOneAboveAll]

Let the Arabs remind the boxing powers that be that money talks and bull**** walks. Mo Sulaiman's position will change real quick as soon as some sheikh greases his palms with some of that oil money.

[TheOneAboveAll]

I’ll believe it at the sound of the opening bell. Tired of getting my balls tickled but my willy completely ignored over this clash. This is THE fight I want to see most.

Colorful way of saying you don't want to get your hopes up.

[JakeTheBoxer]

If Saudis can make this fight without WBC belt on the line, I am full in it.

This is the fight I want to see the most. Both guys can probably get a nice money in Middle east.

[The Big Dunn]

Do we overlook Saudi Arabia sportswashing just so that this fight finally gets made? An interesting moral dilemma.

Since The boxers are not US citizens and the WBC is not a US based organization I actually didn’t even factor that into how I felt.

TBH, I think these 2 deserve a massive payday for a fight of this magnitude. If they can only get it from the Saudi’s so be it.

[STREET CLEANER]

Isn't Beterbiev RUSSIAN and has the WBC belt? How the **** can they not sanction thr fight.

His a Russian fighting out of Canada.