Comments Thread For: Three Coolest Things: Art of the Upset, Dirty Movies and an Old-Heads Face-Off

[BoxingUpdates]

Jason Langendorf scans the boxing scene for rare moments of bliss. This week, there were upsets in the air, a promotional film with some suspect backers and a bit of jawing between fifty-something frenemies.
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Yes, all this “Turki is the savior of boxing” talk should not obscure the dark acts of the Saudi regime.

[M111]

It doesn’t obscure it, politicians do. It’s a political football used to win votes. The opposition parties say we should stop dealing with them due to their human rights record whilst the party in power plays it down as they earn billions from arms sales to them. It’ll continue like that as money is always the deciding factor in these things and whatever party is in power will just spin things to their advantage.

Boxing organisations are utterly corrupt and just want their cut so they’ll do bog all about it.

Boxing hasn’t helped itself. It’s created a culture over decades where rules can be bent and money is king and now it’s come back on them. If it had boxing organisations with an ounce of integrity things such as sanctioning title fights in despot regimes, corrupt judging and non defence of belts would disappear. The issue is with the governing bodies. Scrap them and form a single independent non profit governing body and hey presto.

[SteveM]

The horrible horrible Saudis. Hypocritical westerners. Selling trillions (not billions of arms) of arms. Buying trillions from China with its much worse human rights record than Saudi.
And lastly ( but probably not) but not least invading/bombing other countries (Grenada, Vietnam, Serbia) , installing puppet regimes (Pinochet in Chile) and toppling unfavorable regimes (Panama, Grenada, Honduras) and just meddling ( Nicaragua, El Salvador, Libya, )

[SteveM]

It doesn’t obscure it, politicians do. It’s a political football used to win votes. The opposition parties say we should stop dealing with them due to their human rights record whilst the party in power plays it down as they earn billions from arms sales to them. It’ll continue like that as money is always the deciding factor in these things and whatever party is in power will just spin things to their advantage.

Boxing organisations are utterly corrupt and just want their cut so they’ll do bog all about it.

Boxing hasn’t helped itself. It’s created a culture over decades where rules can be bent and money is king and now it’s come back on them. If it had boxing organisations with an ounce of integrity things such as sanctioning title fights in despot regimes, corrupt judging and non defence of belts would disappear. The issue is with the governing bodies. Scrap them and form a single independent non profit governing body and hey presto.

You mean like in amateur boxing or football - look at the corruption in FIFA and boxing about to be booted out of Olympics

[ChamberOfTruth]

Well written. Looking forward to more of these.