Ring Magazine sold to Turki Alalshikh

[Spicoli]

Yeh first reaction that's what it's starting to feel like. Still need to wrap my head around the "partnership" but I have zero confidence or desire to have White involved in the sport, full stop. When I hear a league being directly partnered with Tony Khan TKO and the WWE...well my stomach turns. Dana lords over a company with maybe 500-600 active, contract restricted fighters in the Ufc. Not the multi thousands in boxing who enjoy having agency as a professional athlete.

I see Turki talking about disregarding the sanctioning orgs and having only one belt etc. Meanwhile he's marketing his next card strictly around Canelo becoming "undisputed" as in gathering all 4 belts once again. He's becoming quite the troll speaking from both sides of his mouth. It almost comes off like he's played with his new toy and become somewhat bored, so now he wants another one. I've just always been skeptical of Turkis full intent and frankly attention span for the long term health and growth of the sport.

[TIC]

in this promo for canelo v william scull, turki is in the middle holding the ring belt & his undisputed belt & someone tries to hand canelo the wbc belt & canelo checks with turki who says no & it's taken off stage again
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-Wx-z...?feature=share

[Primo Carnera]

in this promo for canelo v william scull, turki is in the middle holding the ring belt & his undisputed belt & someone tries to hand canelo the wbc belt & canelo checks with turki who says no & it's taken off stage again
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-Wx-z...?feature=share

and this is just the start of it. Just as I predicted , the Saudis have Bought Boxing, the whole fucking Sport!!! and the piss weak governing bodies have let them do it. Now they'll regret it .
And Dana White getting involved , rumours of Eddie Hearn "Retiring" , no doubt swiftly followed by Frank Warren and eventually De La Hoya . they'll wait Arum out, after al he's 138 years old !!
Look back in History , and all other sports may have conceded and worked together in the end with Money men trying to Buy their sport, but they didn't just roll over and die.
Kerry Packer
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Even this European Football League.

[TIC]

dana now has money behind him so i see tko making some noise for a year or so before starting to fall off. a league type structure doesn't seem to work for boxing. we could see boxing split for awhile like golf with the pga & liv. i hope the competition brings some positives to the sport, less sanctioning bodies, less belts, more active fighters. i'd prefer to see individual promoters act as teams, facing off against each other in the five v five type stuff we've seen recently, a split will only last so long because it won't be the best v the best. i read turki is no longer interested in dmitry v david benavidez & won't bid on that fight, i guess turki wants the artur trilogy. i wonder if we'll see the ring strip dmitry if he defends against david b. the ring has history & used to mean something but those days are now over. the model that works best is the wbss, but on a bigger scale, all divisions & going deeper with second & third tiers to build & showcase fighters & keep them active

[Spicoli]

Welp, Tyson Fury ranked number 1 in latest Ring rankings. Gonna have to call BS on that one. Ring being nothing more than a marketing rag for a soon to be announced comeback. Turki just loves him some Fury.

[Mark TKO]

I don't refer to ring ratings any more since he bought it. Sad times

But looking at that list i'm not sure who I'd put above Fury. I know he says he's retired but was he removed at all? Thought they kept people on there till they'd been inactive for a year

[Spicoli]

I don't refer to ring ratings any more since he bought it. Sad times

But looking at that list i'm not sure who I'd put above Fury. I know he says he's retired but was he removed at all? Thought they kept people on there till they'd been inactive for a year

Fair to say announcing your retirement is basically removing yourself . But you know...I'd actually put Dubois ahead sticking with the ol saying "you're as good as your last recent fight(s)". In the time Fury arguably phoned it in with a literal novice and taken back to back L's, Dubois has come back from an injury that ruins more than a few fighters and run thru 3 opponents in dominating fashion right back into a deserved unification.