He doesn't even have the decency to do that most of the time though, that's the thing. A retweet at least gives credit. His MO is simple. Real journalist breaks story e.g. "Exclusive: Boxer comes in overweight in official weigh-in. Has 2 hours to cut weight or lose belt." Benson tweets 2 minutes later: "!! Reports that boxer is on verge of losing belt on scales. Needs to make weight in second weigh-in within two hours." That Benson tweet gets all the attention, replies, retweets, monetisation opportunities, etc. THEN - 10, 15, 20 minutes later - he replies to his own tweet saying "Originally reported by Dan Rafael / Riath al-Samarrai / Mike Coppinger" - without a link to the reporter's original tweet. He adds no original material of his own to justify what he does. (Though last night he didn't even credit Riath for breaking the story nearly two months ago, which is what I moaned about then.) The reporter themself gets nothing from his involvement - that is scumbag behaviour.
The BBC has a "football gossip" page which draws the ire of the papers. It gets huge traffic (which the BBC doesn't need) and people go there every morning for the transfer stories instead of going to the papers. BBC does link to the sources (because it was forced to by Ofcom) but of course the headline is the story in most cases. And it had to be told to stop keeping score of when the papers were wrong, because sneering at stolen content isn't a good look. They should bin it.
The UK press should be saying the exact same thing en mass but too many appear scared of possible repercussions.
Read that Conor Benn is busy preparing for his next fight. It will be interesting to see where that fight will be held and who he will face ?
Eubank Jr is a promotional free agent apparently, Hearn admitted having a chat with him last week (albeit a frank one!) - it wouldn't remotely surprise me if Benn-Eubank got staged under the Middle East Boxing Commission sometime this year. Not that it's related but they also sanctioned that abomination of Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury back in the day so the UK promoters aren't strangers.
Would be foolish for the Saudis to get mixed up with this. Dozens of fights they can make that won't tarnish them like this one could.
It is exactly what I expect. The Saudis doesn't care too much about whether the boxers have eaten eggs
So I wasn't thinking Saudi in particular - the MEBC is based in Dubai so you could see a fight going there for the right money.
I do wonder if boxing has just moved on from Benn vs Eubank. When the first fight was scheduled there wasn't much going on in the sport, so it gained loads of excitement. Now there are genuinely world class fights happening on a semi-regular basis. I think the fight originally was a bit of right place, right time. Now I just think it gets lost a little bit. The fight had it's moment, and Benn failed a load of drugs tests. Bad luck
Of course it has, no one cares about Benn boxing anyone, boxing fans just want to see him get his comeuppance hence this thread is still going. Eubank too, it’s old news and he never delivered or won an alphabet belt. If he retired tomorrow, no one would really care would they? Maybe a couple of diehard fans, but that’s it.
