Boxing Prospect wrote:
Oh what do the likes of Ohashi gym know about bringing through super talents!
I know it's different cultural norms & shite, but we do act the pudendum on the business side of it in Britain. Apologies to all involved in the actual business side of it in Britain, but your basic idea is "Take the public for utter, utter pudenda for as long as possible" & us poor schmucks willingly lap it up.
Any criticism is shot down with the rank-closing sort of talk: "Fairy-tale land, opponents aren't free, our jobs are haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard, what d'you expect, blahblahblah".
I'd have a lot more respect for those in the industry if they just admitted:
"Look, we like lining our fvcking pockets. If we didn't do it this way we'd all have to get real jobs, or Heaven forefend, start doing our ones properly, i.e. to some standard of competence where we could make money with a decent product instead of creaming you lot for a shower of shite. Or just, you know, we'd have to not be completely greedy fvcking pudenda 99% of the time".
I wouldn't mind that. But they never have the bollocks to come out & say it.
The examples of the Japanese prospect industry are inspiring imo. Like I said, cultural differences & shite, but can a proponent of the worth of the current system explain--in words of one syllable or less--explain why Joshua needs 20 knockover jobs on his record, when Naoya Inoue just beat the best fighter IN THE WORLD at his weight in his sixth pro fight?
Apart from to make everyone even remotely connected with him incredibly rich, that is. Again, I wouldn't mind, but with the current US/UK system, the enrichment of the fighter is secondary to the enrichment of the industry itself.
Then I got called even more of an idiot when I suggested that every fight should feature someone who has even a slight chance of winning 
