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

[Butt stuff]

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.

Ok great, let’s answer this.

Firstly, I’m not a victim in the slightest - I’m not affected personally by either sides of the conflict (counting my blessings). Neither does the suppression of this issue affect my life. I am lucky to live where I do, and where my loved ones are safe.

Secondly, whilst Boxingscene/Saudi and Boxingscene Website Censorship are two disctinct issues, they are also the same issue at the core. Censorship.

Saudi/Turki have not taken well to Boxingscene’s reporting on them, so they have been excluded from the event. This, is in essence, censorship. Boxingscene have now published an article crying suppression of free speech etc.

You can call out hypocrisy without being a victim of it.

And for what it’s worth, I agree with the article, I just believe the site owners should take that onboard themselves. I can understand wanting to block hate speech, but it seems strange to censor the name of a whole people on one side of a conflict.

[Bob]

Had to stop reading, entitled to diatribe.

Perhaps if bs spoke out strongly about the corruption in boxing & whats wrong with it, worked with tko instead of oking everything & sweeping it under the carpet so you get free tickets for fights which tko are trying to do, make the sport better you'd be invited.

You care more about clicks than the sport.

[factsarenice]

for those of you who still live in a illusion.
https://www.you tube.com/shorts/Vn-Iw27Hw04
just delete space after "you".

Bwhahahahah...................I needed that.

[factsarenice]

Had to stop reading, entitled to diatribe.

Perhaps if bs spoke out strongly about the corruption in boxing & whats wrong with it, worked with tko instead of oking everything & sweeping it under the carpet so you get free tickets for fights which tko are trying to do, make the sport better you'd be invited.

You care more about clicks than the sport.

Right to the point, well sad, thank you.

[factsarenice]

Not a word when the WBC,WBA, WBO,IBF turned into a protection racket. Silence when promoters/managers starved fighters into signing long term contracts. Nothing was said when fighters matched no hopes so the puppeteers could make more money. These puppeteers have a strangle hold on what was a sport and they're slowing turning into a Celebrity Death Match .

Turki Al-Sheikh is offering an alternative that doesn't bleed out the sport for financial gain and personally, I'm thankful to for any attempt to return boxing to it's 2,712 year old roots.

Eric Raskin sees things the way he does because he's an insider that adamantly supports the status quo....and that's cool. Eric is
entitled to his opinion but not entitled to access and free tickets to an event he despises.

[PeanutRay]

I am shocked by the number of comments that agree with the Turk and TKO. Sounds exactly like that is going on at Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.