Studio Boxing? A short term solution

[Ron Swanson]

They used to do that with pro wrestling when I was a kid.

Missed this originally Grey but thinking about it over the weekend. Wrestling has seemingly gone back to it's roots, complete with pre recorded mini theme matches that apparently their fans ate up. I'll admit it watching two people aka athletes aka entertainers working a match to empty seats is an eye opening trip. Man these people can act their arses off

I just don't it. It's boxing. The same individuality and 'small' scale..compared to franchise team sports..may be the very thing that gives them opportunity to preform. Worse case ok so no live crowd in the short term, but the fight the ref the judging are all to real not scripted so tv or stream fans are there. They'll be revenue loss minus live gate concessions and live fan coin but maybe short term loss/long term profit? Just wonder the longer this goes who will be the first Promoter seeking out a more lenient less impacted State and try to make some matches. Work out pre testing and numbers working a corner and hold it ala Apollo and Balboa like end of Rocky III. Not all and not even most fights but eventually we have to dip our toe back into the pool.

There is promoter/agent based in Fort Lauderdale that is expecting to be doing shows mid May, and some people I know are excited because boxing in Japan is rumored to be starting up in 5-6 weeks. If either of those turn out to be true, or what form they will take, remains to be seen.

They have an MMA event right around the corner from me scheduled for April 28th. I’ve dealt with the promoter in the past, we were putting an event on for him and the day before the event we canceled it because he still hadn’t gotten proper permits, around 4pm he got them and it was back on. We ended up in a rush to provide security because he hadn’t planned that, medical support etcetera. Small timers can’t be trusted. Our county has the largest number of cases in our state and this event is still planned. Absolutely no way to get permits because the courthouses are closed. We think Arum is bad, he’s nothing compared to small timers.