Comments Thread For: Khan Advises Tyson Fury To Cut Down The Trash Talk

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Can't wait to hear Fury's response.

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Great post. Green k,

Im not a fan of trash talking as a means of self promotion. But it obviously works, and Tyson says such utterly ****** things people actually love him for it. Even though they all think he is a terrible boxer.

Unfortunately, even if a fighter annoys and irritates people, it still translates to ticket sales.

Thanks, man.

That's definitely the case. Even those who you'd expect more from seem to be caught up in this rising tide of emotionalism and are aiding rampant self promoters. The print journalist Kevin Mitchell did a piece not long ago were he ripped into Adrian Broner, who had clearly irritated him. The article had nothing whatsoever to do with Broner. There wasn't even a tenuous link. Mid paragraph he interrupted what he was writing about to state how annoyed he was by Adrian's antics.

Rather than provide rational analysis on the topic he was writing, he stops mid flow and rewards a man that clearly irritates him by giving him extra column inches and exposure which creates interest and like you rightly said, translates to ticket sales.

Unfortunately even some sections of main stream sports journalism, whilst stating that they find that level of self promotion to be crass, are encouraging it by reporting on fighters more infantile actions as if it's of real relevance to the sport of boxing.

[miniq]

"Listen here Amir you big stiff idiot, you're gonna need 10 plumbers to do you when i'm done with you also you're getting it for sure! Call me any names and you are getting it and you know your gay lover Manny Pacquiao? " *cuts off*