Kugan Cassius - WTF?

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  1. eat more offal

    eat more offal Member Full Member

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    Interviews Dave Allen, thinks his own opinion is more valuable than the man he's interviewing. Then he says he can't comment on it despite commenting on it before and then after. Very odd. Starts telling Dave Allen off like he's a child. Is this to stay in the good books of Brick?
     
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  2. Holler

    Holler Doesn't appear to be a paid matchroom PR shill Full Member

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    As well as Team Dubois as he'll want an interview from them at some point.

    Although it's not great journalism I do have some sympathies for the position that a dedicated boxing journalist finds themselves in. If they're too independent they'll be considered to have bit the hand that feeds them and their livelihood can be threatened by a decision from Frank or Eddie. Dillian Whyte for instance took exception to Bunce asking him about a failed test and refused to speak to him for years. Bunce had enough irons in the fire for it not to be too damaging, but when Whyte was up for big fights it definitely impaired his ability to do his job. He kissed his arse relentlessly when the feud was finally settled.

    It's one reason why reporting on British Boxing improves the more it moves to the print journo's who don't exclusively cover it. When the Benn test failure story broke it wasn't our trusty boxing journalists at work and whilst the story attracted the interest of the non boxing press we started to get the lid lifted slightly on the whole rotten edifice.
     
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  3. eat more offal

    eat more offal Member Full Member

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    there’s clearly a way to go about being diplomatic without chastising the interviewee
     
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  4. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    Allen is right he has the grit and willingness to die in the ring and if you don't have that it's a very tough place that ring. Dubious doesn't have that Ali die in the ring mentality but he's not really had a fight where that grit would get him through he was always finished beforehand. It worked out for dubious with his eye against Joyce and it was the logical option. And regardless Usyk had him even if he had that do or die mental strength or not. It's human nature to have a survival instinct. Some boxers disregard it in the pursuit of this bloodsport which is special.

    Anyway back to the reporter could be worse Ellie Seckbach.

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  5. impacted

    impacted Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Even by boxing's standards that Cassius fella is reptilian. A real muck stirring opportunist with no journalistic talent or integrity whatsoever. Literally a ''have you heard what the guy said about you?'' snide. Has respect for the fighters apparently unless they're 112 pound and then the threats about bashing in brains start from big bad Koogs. Thank fook he's drifted into the background as the quality of people getting involved in his genre increased. At one time the guy seemed to be pretty much the PR department of Matchroom.
     
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    eat more offal Member Full Member

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    I heard he was paid £500 per week by Hearn but that may not be true - read it online a few times. The most amusing thing to me is his brazen and enduring association with Mr Kinny with iFL TV proudly presented by every iteration of Mr Kinny's boxing brand... Macklin's Gym Marbella, Mack the Knife Global, and now Goldstar ('headed up' by Spencer Braaahn the man who has been instrumental in formal the relationship with the Saudis...lol!)
     
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  7. Bob Flaps

    Bob Flaps Boxing Addict Full Member

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    He won't be alone there. Every major promoter will have benefitted from KGM, MTK and Goldstar at some stage and claim it's at arms' length through the boxers rather than a direct association. But it's been rumoured for years that IFL was bankrolled to some small degree by Hearn (to the extent they travelled together to shows more than once) and of course Box Nation is the equivalent for Queensberry now, from the days UmarIFLUmar was the designated Warren correspondent.

    I can't bear most of these channels now as they're just gossip mongers. Only really tune in if they interview someone interesting.
     
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  9. Oneirokritis

    Oneirokritis The Scourge of Stupid Idiots. Full Member

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    Should any of this surprise anyone? Kugan has always been a tool, and doesn't seem overly bothered about wanting to prove anyone wrong in that regard.
     
  10. eat more offal

    eat more offal Member Full Member

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    Of course not. He's just a bouncer whose head has got big from all the money he got from having no expertise in anything. The weirdest thing is that he was a bouncer. He might be 6'4'' but he is a total wimp. Although back then he was a fat **** lol!
     
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    ash234 Ash Full Member

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    To his credit he found a gap in the market about 12 years ago but now he just comes across unprofessional. Constantly coughing on video, poor footage and crap questions.
     
  13. eat more offal

    eat more offal Member Full Member

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    definitely. It was good for a while . Didn’t James helder get a raw deal?
     
  14. DON1

    DON1 ICEMAN Full Member

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    Cant believe Kugan is still knocking about tbh. How is he even still relevant? The game has plenty of media platforms now.
     
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  15. BXNG101

    BXNG101 Active Member Full Member

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    He's using his goodwill he generated from years and years ago. People consider him as the original YouTube outlet so he's built fake friends from that within the boxing circle. He's a pathetic interviewer. Always has been. However saying that, the idiots like Louis Hart, Oscar Bevis and Parsons are tragic as well.
     
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