Oscar Buys Ring!!!

GBP buying the ring is very bad IMO, journalists are meant to be objective, A promoter owning a boxing publication doesn't seem very objective to me.
I think Oscar should let go of that tight tight grip he has on boxings balls.

 

I agree. While the editors/writers remain the same, their articles will without a doubt be influenced in one way or another by DLH, since writing anything negative about GBP might cost them their jobs. But as with all speculation, we shall see. From my end, though, not a good move for Ring who was an independent "sanctioning body" with their rankings.

 

Oscar is taking over everything, from Ring right down to the EA Sports Fight Night series. Look at the roster. Gone are the Top Rank fighters. In are Golden Boy fighters like Escobedo and Mares who hadn't even won REGIONAL belts at the time of the game's release. With the rise of MMA, this can do one of 2 things:

1. Cripple Boxing
2. Help Boxing because under one big promoter, the biggest fights will be made.

I'm leaning toward #1 right now.

 

If GBP managed to buy everything up and create a UFC style business plan then this could be very good for boxing because we will no longer suffer because of politics, if GBP failed to unify boxing then we would just see GBP fighters getting hyped while more deserving fighters take the sidelines.

 

I thinks that the Golden Boy purchase is really going to compromise the editorial content of the Ring magazine.

 

Bad. No promoter/promotional company should own the so-called "Bible of Boxing".

Things must've been really bad financially over at The Ring. You would lose count if you tried to count the number of times in the past 5 years that The Ring (or its sister magazines) talked about how great their championship policy is and how it is free of bias. They also lost a lot of their crediblity in the late 70s when they sold their ratings, and have been trying to live that down.

Then they sell themselves to a large boxing promotional company. You wonder what they were thinking and how they know people would be some skeptical that they can still be neutral. Boxing fans are used to corruption in boxing and often naturally just distrustful because of all the shadiness that has gone in in the sport.

The fact that people in The Ring obviously know this and still sold themselves probably shows that times and sales were down.

 

...Or maybe they realised actually had enough power and desire in the sport to change it, is De La Hoya. His power, combined with his business genius and the fundementals The Ring offer, is a good thing.

Anyway, the whole existing company has been bought. It's not just The Ring, so I doubt declining sales are the reason it's been sold. De La Hoya now owns everal magazines (Including a wrestling one for Presscot), which has nothing to do with the current state of boxing. it's just business. The fact it is 'The Ring' no doubt helped DLH make his mind up, but the company would have sold it's magazines to someone else if DLH had not got involved.

Look on the upside to this, people :good

 

I am hoping it will make the magazine widespread again like it was before. I have not seen a ring magazine for 10 years now. Becuase they stoped selling them here at newstands that long ago.

I never been able to find a website of theirs till 2 years ago.

 

Well if DLH takes over the sport it may be good, I dont think DLH would become other King though.

Rumors are ESB is next on DLH's hit list lol.

 

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come on guys, DLH is the Gengis Khan of boxing now lol.