Comments Thread For: Teddy Atlas: Turki Alalshikh Is The Face Of Boxing

[DClefthook]

Teddy Atlas, a NYC native comes off as so righteous, but he seems to have forgotten that 15 of the 19, 9/11 hijackers were Saudi Nationals. I guess money will do that.

Preach on MI brudda...preach on!

[DClefthook]

Teddy Atlas is the face of VODKA

Teddy Atlas is the face of dyslexia.

[DClefthook]

Teddy Atlas is the face of down syndrome

[DClefthook]

Teddy Atlas is the face of a drug deal gone bad between the Gambino family and the Latin kings....somewhere in Long Island.

[crimsonfalcon07]

If I never hear the phrase "face of boxing" again, it will be too soon.

[DClefthook]

Only beating the best will give you the big money fights and ofcourse being entertaining. Not be feather-fisted like Haney and Shakur.

Yea feather fisted fighters aren't that entertaining but they sure are more pleasing to watch than some ******, no skilled, concrete feet, stiff neck clown who thinks that rock-em-sock-em robot is a great fighting style. 99% of whom come from the southwestern portion of the country. WINK WINK!

[DClefthook]

I like these cards a lot, but this may be a better short term thing.

Imho may and pac level money started the fighters not wanting to do anything but coast into a golden ticket fight with the cash cow. Alvarez has kept that torch burning nicely.

I'm afraid if the Saudis pull out at some point it's going to crash hard. It's almost like a new crappy layer of the promotional battles ffs. Canelo will fight DB, but only for saudi money is an example.

Again, in my opinion, we need to address fighters making/expecting too much money. Not saying if they earn it they shouldn't get it, but Alvarez and ggg made dazn lose money. I think pbc may be regretting the canelo signing now. Alvarez and ggg should make huge amounts fighting each other, that's where the interest is, not steve rolls or jermell.

Boxing was always a business, but until the Mayweather era it was never even close to this bad. Hell, if you divide his career in two, the first half is what boxing should be.

Your first 3 paragraphs were great but then you totally went off the rails with the last two. 3G should've never been a PPV fighter. He was only relevant due to the power of HBO. Without them 3G would've been another Janibek Alimkhanuly which is an unknown obscure eastern Euro. Stop!

[ELPacman]

Teddy isn't far off with this comment. The man at the moment putting on the best fights, the best cards, is not Goldenboy Promotions or Top Rank. It's a dude in the desert who has crazy money to blow and at the end of the day, money talks. He is doing something, the "usual" boxing promoters could never do on their own. Between the politics and financials involved, they would drag on and on. Turki is like, politics? Here is 50 million dollars. Now get in the ring.

[Phase III]

You’re wrong crazy Teddy. When can you call blood money ( memba Khashoggi dummy) the face of boxing, it shows how crazy Teddy doesn’t read.

[theface07]

Teddy Atlas, a NYC native comes off as so righteous, but he seems to have forgotten that 15 of the 19, 9/11 hijackers were Saudi Nationals. I guess money will do that.

What in the world does that have to do with boxing? I don't care who is responsible for getting the best against the best in the ring and having a deep, rich undercard with legitimate contenders and world title holders on it. It's not like America hasn't committed it's fair share of atrocities in its history but no one is stopping massive events from happening there.