Been a few weeks since he said he is leaving Boxing news, usually after a couple of weeks he would announce what he is doing next, can't see him leaving the boxing industry but what will he do? saw some people say he may have got a gig at Dazn, hope he stays in the game as i like his interviews / podcasts.
I like Robs questioning and his podcasts but he seems stubborn and falls out with a lot of people. There will no doubt be a new venture before the year is out, but for how long.
I've never met him but there could be a connection between his being willing to genuinely ask the tough questions and him not being so easy to get along with. In boxing there are way too many 'journalists' who seem more concerned with staying on the right side of promoters and fighters than putting the tough questions. Rob Tebbut seemed like he took that part of his role seriously, maybe that put peoples backs up?
If you want to make it in boxing journalism you need to suck up to the promoters and fighters; and never ask them any tough questions. Just ask Koogs. If you think you can make a decent living doing it any different than that, then you are living in cloud cuckoo land.
Calling these people “journalists” is an insult to actual journalists like Donald McRae and the Boxing News guys. The simple fact Rob took that job in the first place shows his passion for boxing — same as Tris Dixon and Matt Christie. It’s a ball-breaking job, loads of pressure, and the money isn’t great either. Worlds apart from the YouTube lads who just built platforms off brown-nosing promoters and playing the social media game. Koogs built his profile clinging to Eddie on the ascent, and it was pure survivor bias — IFL tried plenty of other things before boxing stuck, then latched onto Jane Couch, Eddie, and the likes of Saunders/Whyte for traction. Tebbutt, being around it, probably sees most of these so-called “media guys” for what they are: suck-ups and fake-it-till-you-make-it merchants. Out of 10,000 YouTubers trying for 10 years, a tiny handful blow up just through luck and randomness — no different from 10,000 people flipping coins and the ones who keep hitting heads getting celebrated as geniuses. Parsons is simply the updated Koogs model 2.0. He probably knows very little about the sport or its history, and if he posted on a board like this he’d get laughed off — same as Kugan would.
