Floyd-McGregor: Winners and Losers

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Boxing will not loose.No other boxer will follow suit.You won't see Andre Ward calling out Jon Jones.This is an event.Why is everyone crying about it all the time..if you don't like it then don't watch it.(I guarantee that you will)I can't stand cricket or horse racing so I don't watch it.Why get 30-40 million fighting Thurman or Spence when you get over 100 million fighting McGregor.?!Floyd has done enough in the sport of boxing and fought everyone you wanted him to fight..just accept it.

My problem has never been with Floyd. I don't blame MacGregor taking that sort of money either.My problem is with the people who run the "SPORT" for allowing it. And let's not forget, it is supposed to be a sport, and in Sport, you look for as even a matchup as you can get. My problem is also with the Public, who fuelled by the media have this crazed obsession with Floyd.Most of the people are obsessed because they want to see him lose! It's fucking ridiculous. And I won't be watching, I promise. I have no interest in it at all, and I don't know why anyone else is interested.You can almost see it already, after the Fight, which will result in Floyd toying with MacGregor and outclassing him, I guarantee you will get some dumbasses who turn around and say:1. It was boring, Floyd didn't want to attack.2. Floyd ran3. Floyd is a cowardSeriously, what the fuck are you expecting?

Boxing is not just a sport. It has no unified body running it. The idea of an even match up is hopeful at best, and not what happens consistently at any level from amateur kids to international professional adults. Promoters and managers put on what will sell or further their prospect and despite this boxing survives and continues to produce enthralling contests as well as average and poor ones. Without this panoply of pugilism the art would be poorer and less meaningful. It is the maverick in a predictable overly health and safety obsessed society in which codified bodies have reduced many other martial arts to point scoring exercises. Boxing runs the gamut and fights like this one are vital so that we cherish real classics when they happen and appreciate small Hall cogs that drive the bigger machine.

This is a good description of what normally describes the lopsidedness of match making, the fact that mismatches are heavy for favored fighters coming up or necessity and value of journeymen fighters. This however is simply a spectacle payout for two already established faces of their franchises that has no intention of leading anywhere. Show me any tilted scale of a bout where a boxer is brought in to lose and you will find in majority of cases at least 1,2 or a few times that b boxer side has pulled off the upset. Boxing has 1001 problems and is very much the black sheep of sports but this gimmick is essentially entering a supped up clown car in a car show. What will sell and promote this is not a few hardened overly cynical die hard fans calling crap crap but a mass media targeting casuals or status clingers who have no intention of watching the next boxing show on basic cable. I'm not a purist and do not begrudge a guy or gal making a buck but at the risk of sounding like a self righteous arse , it's our house..our 3 legged adopted mutt of a sport and shouldn't just stand in line throwing our hands up waiting to eat at the trough of slop they shovel in for mass consumption.