Comments Thread For: Riyadh Season has boxing media independence on the ropes

[James Hunt]

You've been writing hit-pieces regarding Turki/Saudi boxing involvement, yet somehow you expect them to fulfil all of your wishes? Realy?!
Btw, why would you even want to be present at the events you consider to be "sportswashing"? Makes no sense.
I'm glad you got what you've been asking for.

[James Hunt]

Let me know when we have prisons full of political dissenters being tortured and killed , let me know when we can't vote or protest , when we have a KING , can't have a ****tail or ten . There might be an Orange ******* trying to accomplish what you are claiming but we can resist without being murdered or imprisoned. We are far from being Saudi Arabia. If you can't figure out how a Democracy is better than a Theocratic Kingdom , I don't know what to tell you. Maybe try thinking sometime instead of being so dramatic and emotional. Does Turki pay you for the defense of the Kingdom ?


You can respond or don't , I don't really care. I'm not going to read it anyway.

You forgot to mention the genocide that your beloved country is enabling in Gaza, the West Bank, and arround.
Oh, you also forgot to mention millions of people who live worse than street dogs in your beloved heaven of a country.

[pollywog]

Fück him and the camel he rode in on!

[Madison]

You've been writing hit-pieces regarding Turki/Saudi boxing involvement, yet somehow you expect them to fulfil all of your wishes? Realy?!
Btw, why would you even want to be present at the events you consider to be "sportswashing"? Makes no sense.
I'm glad you got what you've been asking for.

very good point...

[Butt stuff]

Interesting sentiment about censorship and propaganda, yet on this comment section you can write Israel yet not *********.

“We are the champions of free speech, except of course when it’s speech we do not like”

I understand the writers are not those who make the rules of the website, but unfortunately they’re complicit if they continue to produce content for boxingscene.

[Mushashi]

You've been writing hit-pieces regarding Turki/Saudi boxing involvement, yet somehow you expect them to fulfil all of your wishes? Realy?!
Btw, why would you even want to be present at the events you consider to be "sportswashing"? Makes no sense.
I'm glad you got what you've been asking for.

That's the point, to be an impartial observer one way or another whether the journalist agrees with Saudi's involvement or not

Point out the good and the bad without fear of suppression. There's plenty of good things to say about SELA & Riyadh Season's involvement in boxing from a fans perspective but equally there's a lot of negatives too.

You should expect to hear both sides unless you want to consume PR from one side only

[Madison]

Let me know when we have prisons full of political dissenters being tortured and killed , let me know when we can't vote or protest , when we have a KING , can't have a ****tail or ten . There might be an Orange ******* trying to accomplish what you are claiming but we can resist without being murdered or imprisoned. We are far from being Saudi Arabia. If you can't figure out how a Democracy is better than a Theocratic Kingdom , I don't know what to tell you. Maybe try thinking sometime instead of being so dramatic and emotional. Does Turki pay you for the defense of the Kingdom ?


You can respond or don't , I don't really care. I'm not going to read it anyway.

yeah cause things are so great in america lol, 'the land of the free' where political figures are getting shot in broad daylight and refugees getting knifed in the neck on trains by career criminals....

[Coverdale]

Interesting sentiment about censorship and propaganda, yet on this comment section you can write Israel yet not *********.

“We are the champions of free speech, except of course when it’s speech we do not like”

I understand the writers are not those who make the rules of the website, but unfortunately they’re complicit if they continue to produce content for boxingscene.

You're knowingly conflating two distinct issues in order to make yourself out to be some sort of victim.

There are ample places for you to have your asinine culture war which don't involve a boxing forum.

[t_dirtydizzawg]

Hasn't Dana White been doing this type of thing for a long time now? It might be new to Raskin in the boxing realm, but it should come as no surprise that Turki and Dana share the same vision when it comes to silencing critics in an attempt to control the narrative.

[The Big Dunn]

You've been writing hit-pieces regarding Turki/Saudi boxing involvement, yet somehow you expect them to fulfil all of your wishes? Realy?!
Btw, why would you even want to be present at the events you consider to be "sportswashing"? Makes no sense.
I'm glad you got what you've been asking for.

Fair point made by this poster.