Investigative boxing journalism

[Jsmooth9876]

Good luck getting any kind of info on the Alphabet organizations. Most of their main offices are located outside the United States and that's probably for a good reason in their minds.

There are no boxing journo's just a bunch of meat riding amateur guys who are about as casual as your typical Jake Paul PPV buyer.

[Eff Pandas]

Good luck getting any kind of info on the Alphabet organizations. Most of their main offices are located outside the United States and that's probably for a good reason in their minds.

You wouldn't necessarily need to break into a belt groups building & look through their file cabinets like a 70's detective sitcom or deal with them directly. You just need to find the ppl that have done "shady business" with the belt groups & talk to them & do some hidden cam kind of thing exposing them via those who come forward to you.

There are no boxing journo's just a bunch of meat riding amateur guys who are about as casual as your typical Jake Paul PPV buyer.

Well yea. Therein lies the real issue. I think someone who doesn't fook with boxing could do something like this better than anyone I'm aware of that does boxing media sh^t today. We don't have a legit Ariel Helwani-like or John Nash-like MMA guys who's capable of breaking news/sketchy bs with any regularity.

[dan-b]

This article from BS regarding Andy Cruz's manager/promoter situation is an example of some actual boxing journalism.

[QueensburyRules]

The last legit investigation was when that one guy exposed Mayweather for being on steroids against Pacquiao back in 2015. And froid has such a huge fanbase that nobody talks about it and acts like it never happened

- - Investigations disappear up Crack Daddy floydy crack pipe.

[dan-b]

In this story published by BS today regarding unclaimed boxing pensions, it's notable that the LA Times did the investigative legwork. You won't find YouTube channels doing something tangible for boxers like this.

[dan-b]

The Weeks/Lawson controversy is another example of why boxing desperately needs actual boxing journalists rather than guys running around with smartphones and reposting screenshots of social media posts.

[dan-b]

garfios - you see, if we had proper boxing journalism we could find out why the WBC, WBA and IBF have not begun stripping Canelo. Even Dan Rafael, one of boxing's better journalists, seems afraid to ask and serves as a bit of a cheerleader for Canelo.

[garfios]

garfios - you see, if we had proper boxing journalism we could find out why the WBC, WBA and IBF have not begun stripping Canelo. Even Dan Rafael, one of boxing's better journalists, seems afraid to ask and serves as a bit of a cheerleader for Canelo.

I have always said, that the media is as corrupt as the promoters and alphabet soups. They never ask the right questions because most of the time they live from gifts and free passes to the fights handed down by promoters and the organizations. So everyone is hiding in plain sight, and there's no change on the horizon, and new fans are in love with their idol, they know the guy is a bully and a piece of $h1t, but they don't care.

[MusoMeanderings]

There is no such thing as investigative journalism.

Investigations are made by the police and othet proper authorities.

And for boxing to stop being corrupt look no further than Soviet and Cuban amateur boxing programs.

[tomhawq]

It's a very complicated sport and a business that anyone would go crazy investigating it. No one still have no answer why there's so much inactivity when new promotional outfits are now all over the place. (This site has a new owner for a start.) What is preventing these inactive fighters on crossing the street and why are they wasting their primes?