The Wire for Boxing

[Tony Trick-Pony]

I've been watching the HBO series The Wire a good deal lately which did a great job of showing the corruption of a big city where people are often crushed.

Given last night's embarrassment to the sport with the judging and boxing's long history of corruption, I think a Wire type show would be a great series to watch- focusing specifically on the corruption and it effects the fighters, their families and all others involved. Of course, it would take a lot of people willing to talk, but if it can happen about the drug trade in Baltimore, it can probably happen in boxing as well. If boxing wants to keep up corruption, then let it be exposed for everybody to see. Would be brilliant.

[FrankieClutch]

Would Kovalev be Marlo?

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Would Kovalev be Marlo?

LOL. Maybe so. Bob Arum is Clay Davis. Haha.

[Madison Boxing]

yeah its corrupt. i said it before the fight, american boxing is at a real low and the easy way to correct that was to score andre ward winning this fight. as soon as i saw the judges and the ref were american, i knew exactly what was coming, cause its very rare and frowned upon usually to have all 3 judges of same nationality as a fighter in a big fight. will find me heavily advising people not to put money on kovalev on one of the betting threads. hope people listened

[*TonyMontana*]

Best TV series EVER
ward still won tho

[Mexican_Puppet]

Sh.its like yesterday are killing this great sports.

And too fans like the fans of this page with nationalism and ignorance, without ball to admitt the real winner was not his boy.

I'm mexican and I respect all the styles, I like guys like Floyd, Rigo or Lara but Ward was puuuuuuuuure sh.it.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Sh.its like yesterday are killing this great sports.

And too fans like the fans of this page with nationalism and ignorance, without ball to admitt the real winner was not his boy.

I'm mexican and I respect all the styles, I like guys like Floyd, Rigo or Lara but Ward was puuuuuuuuure sh.it.

Yeah, if I could focus on anything, it would be the nationalism and the desperate hold on having an American fighter as number one at all costs. Still pretty crazy last night though. Isn't Kovalev an American citizen now?

[Scipio2009]

I've been watching the HBO series The Wire a good deal lately which did a great job of showing the corruption of a big city where people are often crushed.

Given last night's embarrassment to the sport with the judging and boxing's long history of corruption, I think a Wire type show would be a great series to watch- focusing specifically on the corruption and it effects the fighters, their families and all others involved. Of course, it would take a lot of people willing to talk, but if it can happen about the drug trade in Baltimore, it can probably happen in boxing as well. If boxing wants to keep up corruption, then let it be exposed for everybody to see. Would be brilliant.

Where was the corruption in the Kovalev-Ward fight, lol? The fight was clearly close, Kovalev won the first 2 rounds, the fight was hotly contested basically 3-6, and Kovalev's late fade allowed Ward to dictate the back half of the fight with his lead hand, the body work, and negating what Kovalev was trying to do. It was a close fight, and Ward loss the fight close.

Also... you know that The Wire is a drama and not an actual story, right?

You could build a boxing drama from scratch; Don King (street guy turned numbers runner, turned small time promoter, who leveraged his personality and the ruthless focus on boxing's glamour division to build his business), "Oscar De La Hoya" (former fighter, turned company figurehead, turned actual fight promoter), Lou DiBella (Harvard educated TV exec who was buying fight cards, turned promoter rebuilding the fight scene in NYC/the world), Eddie Hearn (son of a successful promoter, who's seeking to take the old family business globally with the biggest and best fights possible), heck even Bob Arum (curmudgeonny, old lawyer, who'd seen nearly 40 years of history pass him by, knowing where "the bodies are buried" [since he's buried his fair share of them]) could all be looked at as inspirations for what the central character should end up being.

Once you get that central character out of the way, you fill in the rest of the show; cash cow of the stable, the manager for said fighter, the fighter's trainer and gym, the TV executive the promoter looks to work with, various prospects looking for their opportunities, rival promoters, "the next big thing" (hot prospect on the rise looking to knock off the cash cow), etc.

You can add talks of the commissions and all that, but I sincerely doubt that there are folks still getting handed bags of money to score fights a certain way before the fight even starts; doubt that the commision makes things all that interesting, but whatever.

[-PBP-]

It's Baltimore gentleman. The gods cannot save you.

[mlac]

LOL. Maybe so. Bob Arum is Clay Davis. Haha.

nah bob arum is that litte mad polak police chief who gets his van stolen by frank sobotka

Haymon is Clay davis.

Kovalev is chris partlow

John david jackson is 'cutty'

Ward is 'Snoop'