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Thats valid. I think PBC needs someone who's a voice for them. I suspect it'll be Slick Ricky when he shows his cards in the near future from the sounds of it. I tend to believe thats been a job destined for him from the get go & its been left vacant until he jumped back in the game. Thats my assumption anyway. If Slick Ricky ends up just being a Lou DiBella character who's getting the better fights & end up being a vocal PBC promoter I think its a void that PBC isn't helping itself by leaving void.
I think this is less valid. I don't think you get into a competitive environment like pro boxing & show all plans to "takeover the sport" or garner some huge TV deal to all your competitors. For the most part I think everyone already knows the end goal anyway. Money & a more logical structure to boxing eventually, but mainly for the near future just money. And there are only 3 ways to get money in boxing that I see as plausible for PBC. 1)The most likely & the one my money is on. The live sports TV money that is getting thrown around like candy during a Memorial Day parade lately. 2)And less likely. PPV like everyone else. PBC has shown lil to no interest in PPV, but who knows maybe you build these boxers up on regular TV & basic cable & you do better PPV numbers. 3)And even less likely mainly cuz its less proven. A streaming boxing network like WWE Network or UFC Fight Pass.
No one is changing the clusterf#ck of boxing quickly. And no one in the boxing business gives much of a damn about the PBC haters or PBC fanboys. People always wanna mention the extremes in boxing, but far more people are in the middle & far more people than that have an interest in boxing that hasn't been fulfilled by most people operating in the boxing business the last few decades with its lack of mainstream appeal for people without the desire to spend $50+ to watch a fight or without premium cable. And the fact that that has been the reality for a couple decades & boxing is trying to bring old boxing fans back to boxing and create new boxing fans in a world where people are talking about microaggressions is no quick or easy task.
Sure, you have haters out there (Steve Kim, others) who bask in the opportunity to bash anything PBC does regardless if it is positive or negative. However, even a positively biased observer can't make heads or tails out of how the PBC is 'making money' or hopes to. Some are right in that there is definitely more to this then just the publicly released numbers show, but from the beginning people questioned how this investment and model would make money and payoff in the end, and there still aren't any answers.
Unfortunately while the goal appeared to be to centralize boxing talent and the sport itself, it so far has only seemed to further fractionalize it as now we have PBC 'haters' and PBC 'fanbois'.
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