Comments Thread For: Middle Class Promoters Trying To Survive During Coronavirus Pandemic

[TheMyspaceDayz]

People won’t be attending fights like before right out of the gate. This leads me to believe that most A level matchups will be put off for B or B+ level matchups. One of the few I see being put on sooner than later is Canelo-GGG 3. Everyone knows that if you put it off any longer then the product will suffer due to Golovkin’s age.

[Dramacyde]

Lou Dibella is far from middle class. He owns a mansion in Staten Island, owns 2 minor league baseball teams & 50% of Brooklyn Boxing

[Oldskoolg]

Well Lou....choices have consequences.

[hectari]

Damn, Dan Rafael does articles here now.

When did ESPN fire him?

[Dasmius Shinobi]

This FÛÇKING Corona Virus is playing us all. This is a FÛÇKING mess.

This is very sad to read. I hope all promoters on this level recover and don't fall. If one fall, to me is a loss to the boxing community, so I don't want this to happen. My goodness and well wishes to the boxers under these promoters and hope they have money to defend well against this Pandemic. You are all in my prayers.

[elfag]

Dan Rafael was ESPN.com's senior boxing writer for fifteen years, and covered the sport for five years at USA Today. He was the 2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism.






***ing lol fat dan writes for boxingscene now.

[elfag]

I want to see a BoxingScene logo on the fleece

Its gonna take a while, those are special order big and tall fleeces, you cant get fat dan sizes just off the rack

[Inspired]

Everyone in this pandemic is losing money in boxing including the promoters themselves. Hopefully, the fighters have saved up enough of their money in order to survive during this crisis because if they can't fight then they can't eat.

However, my one only worry and concern is for the unknown blue collar fighter who is popular among boxing fans but just haven't quite crossed over or have a mainstream following among the casual fan.

I don't know how they are surviving this pandemic under these current stay at home orders.

boxers are either self-employed or they have companies and take a salary/dividend from it.

it's likely they can get the Job retention scheme. Furthermore, there are plenty of jobs available...but people dont want to do them.

That welsh boxer who recently fought again Julio Cesar Martniez, Jay Harris, works full time at an Amazon warehouse.

Boxers are fit athletes, if they're struggling to make ends meet, plenty of warehouse work going.

im not about to feel sorry for them.
it's the people who arent healthy enough to hold down active jobs that i feel sorry for.

[OctoberRed]

When did ESPN fire him?

He wasn't fired. His contract was not renewed, big difference.

[hectari]

He wasn't fired. His contract was not renewed, big difference.

Didnt he used to diss Boxingscene before, now he is writing for them.

I remember Big dan used to make fun of youtube boxing bloggers now those guys like Elie are making bank.