I know us Boxing fans are always asking about the health of our sport. I think this clip shows us how far the journalism surrounding our sport has fallen. We went from "analysis" to "access". Think of the recent fights you have seen and the analysis provided by "journalism" or what substitutes for journalism today. Compare and contrast. How do you guys think boxing journalists measure up? For that matter commissions and their interaction with journalists? Weigh in. Present clips. :deal Enjoy: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s7XFMzyGJ4[/ame]
Blame the internet. Anyone and everyone can have a voice, i.e. blog, web page, video, etc.. Slick, what did you think of Pac's mauling of Margarito? :think
I agree, but what is ESPN's excuse? Great fight. Combos to slow the forward motion. Slide out to the left and lower the boom when Margarito attempted to lunge toward him and correct. Technical as hell! I have been trying to pull similar crap for months with no success. Margo had some moments too. Loved the body shots. Hated Margo's head movement. In a way, I wanted them to stop it once he had "gave it his all", but I was proud of him for lasting the whole fight. Pac is a master of his craft. Would have loved it more if Pac had done the USADA blood testing, did better PPV than Mosely, and put egg on FMJ's face to put more blood in the water, but... It ain't quite Christmas.
Todays boxing "journalists" are not capable of producing pieces like that. I consider todays so called "journalists" as boxings second worst enemy. Roughly 90% of those who call themselves "fans" are boxings worst enemy. The "journalists" spew the bull****, and the "fans" repeat it verbatim, ad nauseum.
This is also because 99 percent of "boxing journalists" don't get paid. Boxing writers used to be paid by major newspapers, and many of these newspapers had multiple boxing writers on staff. Most boxing journalists nowadays cover the fights for the press passes and in return produce a story or two. For the internet age, both sides are happy with this. Additionally, if it wasn't for these websites, many again who volunteer their time for 0 dollars in return. Many fighters who would have never generated the interest of fight fans and newspapers 20 years ago are covered much better because of the internet.
Yeah like the state of boxing, boxing journalism and analysis is in decline. Often the best are older people nearing senility - no offense but I am looking at you Bert and Larry. Gallo as we discussed in other threads is another example, but fortunately he is still lucid. The young ones like Max, Iole, etc (Vivek is ****ing terrible. He is one step above keyboard warriors. One step) are barely tolerable. Nice post Slick!
Boxing journalism is practically non-existent. I used to subscribe to another site that used to include Doug Fischer. Fischer was a good writer, no one else was, and since he left it's gotten worse. I finally had enough. I visited the site on a daily basis for about five years, and completely quit about two months ago. It's just unreadable and there's no reporting whatsoever going on anymore. Even the fight recaps are editorialized. Just tell me what happened. I don't care how you feel about it.
ESB's own S89 has published a beautifully written piece about Pacquiao: http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-article/8498/onward-christian-soldier/
Exactly. There's nothing special about Brent Musburger, but that was an era when the networks invested in the sport. These days, let's just be thankful we do have the internet.
The days of investigative reporting are gone. Now instead of that, we have broadcasts like HBO who when controversy arises, are in a rush to judgment, and then dont bring out all the facts. Nowdays, the station doing the broadcasting have an invested interest in the fighters that are broadcast on their channel. They only do investigative reporting when it suits their agenda. I do miss the days when boxing was on Network TV. I will say however that Showtime boxing is a big improvement over HBO boxing.........the reason being that Showtime has now gotten to the point that they are not signing fighters to multi fight contracts to air them......instead they are doing alot more of fight to fight contracts with fighters, which in turn has the fans tuning into a broadcast with alot less bias when the station does'nt have an invested interest in one fighter or the other.
