Yep. You can blame women like that Emily for that. The culture in the west is, hook up, shag each other for a few years, have 3 kids, get a house together then get married AND THEN say oh I'm not feeling this marriage, it's not working out for me. Let's divorce. Like I said mate. Idiot women like that Emily and many many many like her are the reason why marriage, staying married through thick and thin and raising children is seen as something to run away from thesedays.
It's not societal pressure. It's what we are on this planet for. To procreate, leave behind a family and so on. People in general are hopelessly weak thesedays. Beyond thick especially in the west. You've got the whole LGBT brigade being shoved down your throat. Then, these idiots end up wanting kids. So they make a life choice to be gay. A decision that you know cannot produce children and then they decide they want them. So they have to adopt them. Laughable right? It's beyond stupid. Then you got straight couples who have stopped having kids because they want to focus on careers and then they end up divorcing and get dogs instead of children. Trust me, women like this Emily who's going to sleep each night excited for what she's going to do for Barry Hearn the next day, are the reason why marriage and raising children have gone down the pan.
Mate, you sound like you just staggered out of a Cold War bunker after a 60-year coma, still clutching a sermon from Enoch Powell. The world’s moved on—women having jobs and people living their lives isn’t the apocalypse, it’s just 2025.
People are on this planet for different reasons, I think. There are 8 billion people, and the population is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050. There's no reason to have a family just for the sake of it. Underpopulation will never be a problem again, until we go extinct. I know depressed people, addicts, people who have unalived themselves, all because they are the product of people who didn't think through their choice to have a kid. Not everyone should be a parent. I'm one of them. This is an active choice for me, and every year, I feel more validated as I watch my friends suffer from burnout and financial turmoil because they chose to start a family. I've spent my life building my business, travelling the world, learning new languages, and embracing new experiences. That's what I am on this planet for. I couldn't care less about continuing the bloodline, all bloodlines will end eventually, who cares? It's not Game of Thrones. Live your life, I say. Don't just follow the pack blindly. I don't think people are that weak. People in their mid-30s have lived through 2 serious economic crashes and a pandemic, and they're part of the most disconnected generation that has ever existed. Not to mention, they can open their phone and watch some of the most gruesome content imaginable online. They work multiple jobs, will likely never be able to afford a home, and are watching as AI comes for their jobs. No other generation has been able to watch people get shot in the neck on a live stream while they're on their lunch break. Yet most of them still get on with it. I don't think they're that weak; I think that's a lazy stereotype. Boomers had it the easiest, and they're the ones who complain the most. If this Emily woman is happy, then fair play to her. I don't know whether she is, but she appears to be nowhere near as miserable as women I know who chose to settle down in their 20s, or those who had kids in their mid-30s because their biological clock was running out, and end up divorced a decade later. It's a complex argument. People are different.
It is, especially when the fans get so wound up by a promoter actually promoting his product, some people take it far too seriously.
Frank does a lot of the work in signing fighters and contracts etc, Ben Whittaker being the latest example, he's also more operational at events than being responsible for endlessly banging a drum for his fighters , like a promoter would.
Boxing’s issue is they sell you gold—“fight of the century!”—and deliver ****. Fans aren’t dumb; they’re just tired of the hype train crashing. Shalom gets a pass—he’s running on BBC fumes, so a bit of circus is expected. But Hearn? He’s out here talking up “game-changers” and “best on the planet” like he’s promising more miracles than Anthony Fowler flogging CBD like an alchemist, claiming his snake oil’ll fix your soul. Then his lads go breakdancing across the canvas at Wembley, and we’re told it’s “all part of the plan.” It’s a bait-and-switch—and now any fight worth watching’s hidden behind a double paywall. Fans deserve better. They’re all at it... £24.99 for Joey12 v Wardley is a bridge too far even for me.
If I were you, mate, I'd ignore anything a promoter says. Promoters know hardcore fans will watch any fight, so their waffle isn't aimed at us. It's aimed at the casual fan as they are by far the biggest fan base in boxing, especially at or near the top level, and they can be easily hoodwinked. The only thing I am interested in coming out of a promoter's mouth is who their fighter is going to fight next. Everything else is bull****. I will have my own opinion on their fighter and their upcoming fight based on what I know about the competitors, and what I learn from knowledgeable fans. Whatever the promoters public opinion off said fight / fighter is, it is completely irrelevant to me as it's not their honest opinion.
Oh mate, I tuned out of the noise years ago — but social media still spams your feed with nonsense the moment you click anything boxing-related, even if you’ve hit block and mute. It’s like visiting a website and having to battle through cookie preferences just to read a paragraph. And yeah, promoters can waffle all they want, but when the bull**** starts setting the price point, it stops being harmless noise. If they want to talk rubbish, fine — just don’t charge £24.99 a pop for the privilege, on top of an already existing paywall, unless it’s an elite-level fight or at least a properly stacked card. I mean seriously, how many buys is Joey12 v Wardley going to do? Allen’s scrap at the weekend would probably draw bigger numbers.