Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao vs. Jeffrey Horn & Jerwin Ancajas vs. Teiru Kinoshita RBR.

Great post Nonito. Spot on!

 

Teddy Atlas and Stephen A. Smith work for ESPN, ESPN has recently made a big time deal with Top Rank to carry HBO and PPV level fights on their channel, therefore Smith and Atlas are company men and shills. They had a hell of a lot riding on this card, which most tuned in for to see Manny win by highlight reel KO. They then in one of the most self defeating acts I've ever seen, assumed the result beforehand, basically bashed the fight and ran down the unknown, untested question mark Jeff Horn and his resume non stop in the pre fight coverage, thinking Pac winning was a sure thing, in the process Stephen A. made himself look like the casual loudmouth that he is. Teddy did his typical biased bloviating and as always seemed to miss everything the guy he was rooting against landed and credited the guy he was rooting for with missed punches. Tessitore and Atlas tried their best to control the narrative selling the idea to people that what they're seeing is but an illusion, that Horn isn't coming close to winning, causing most fans to question their comprehension of the sport and some their sanity. Then in spite of all the horse**** they were shoveling trying to bias the audiences view of the fight assuming Manny had won by robbery and in spite of the fact that this was their maiden voyage with Top Rank and they are now ace Top Rank shills, justice was served, Horn rightfully won, the judges for a change got it right, and they all had egg on their faces, and looked like the buffoons who DKSAB that they are. So instead of getting up on television, being humble and saying that they underestimated Horn they ****ed up and got it wrong, they proceeded to throw a butthurt temper tantrum and blame everyone on planet earth for the "robbery" and keep pushing this intellectually dishonest narrative in an attempt to make themselves look and feel better. What you saw was basically a two hour microcosm of what the Democrats have been doing since losing the "sure thing" election that they made no effort actually win.

Is this really where we are as a species? The rich disinterested bigoted cash cow shows up to collect a paycheck, and gets upset by the humble small time working class school teacher in the Rocky like feel good story of the decade. And we as a collective take the side of and have a **** fit about the corporate backed privileged fat cat losing fair and square against the rugged individualist scrappy kid who put his nose to the grindstone and busted his ass for every second of that match and earned every point on those scorecards that he got. No wonder we're as ****ed up as we are.

 

Don't disagree about media control being bipartisan at all, sadly at this point there's little difference between the parties, they're the center right and right wings of the same corporatist globalist party. There's almost no real progressives left in the Senate or House at this point. And I'll repost it there.

 

Well said Al.

This is Al Bernstein's opinion on that ignoramus Smith.

"I seldom criticize sportscasting colleagues, BUT I cringe when announcers who don’t really follow boxing denigrate fighters for no reason. Perhaps before Stephen A. Smith said that Horn opponents Randall Bailey and Ali Funeka 'give new meaning to the term no names' he might have done 5 minutes of research and realized that Bailey only 5 years ago was a world champion and as recently as 6 years ago Funeka fought twice for a world title. Are they household names to all sports or boxing fans… no. Were they aging fighters that Horn could build his name with… yes. But within the sport they are not no names. It is awful to read their names and a few others in a mocking tone and suggest they’re some kind of bums. These two men had excellent careers. When asked 'what do you have on Jeff Horn?' Smith said, 'gotta admit don’t have much on this dude.' Really? How could you admit that on National TV when you are paid to cover this 'dude.' Then he denigrated Horn’s opponents without knowing anything about them … When I have covered other sports beyond boxing I make it my business to NOT overreach and make statements on no knowledge. Instead I actually prepare, so that I can stay in my lane, be factual, and do the job I’m being paid for."

 

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15 for Horn
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1 Even