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Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑23 Apr 2025, 06:32

Rezzer1967 wrote: ↑23 Apr 2025, 06:25 I always enjoy posters who watch boxing via an IPTV Firestick, don’t buy Boxing News or the Ring, rarely if ever go to the fights and then come on boxing forums , complaining about the quality of the shows, what a rip off DAZN is and how they haven’t read boxing news since the dawn of the internet. I don’t know how the business survives without them.

I don't have a Firestick but, yes, I don't buy DAZN, buy Boxing News or The Ring but I do buy tickets for shows and train people for free. So I do my bit.

Rezzer1967 wrote: ↑23 Apr 2025, 07:20

Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑23 Apr 2025, 06:32

Rezzer1967 wrote: ↑23 Apr 2025, 06:25 I always enjoy posters who watch boxing via an IPTV Firestick, don’t buy Boxing News or the Ring, rarely if ever go to the fights and then come on boxing forums , complaining about the quality of the shows, what a rip off DAZN is and how they haven’t read boxing news since the dawn of the internet. I don’t know how the business survives without them.

I don't have a Firestick but, yes, I don't buy DAZN, buy Boxing News or The Ring but I do buy tickets for shows and train people for free. So I do my bit.

It was absolutely nothing personal to you. I’m sure your love of boxing is equal or indeed greater than mine. It’s the same with rugby in south Wales where I live. Outsiders think Wales is a rugby hotbed but remove the casuals on international days, the p1ssed women and 45 year old men with a dragon painted on their cheek paying £130 for a ticket to get likes on social media and all you’ve got is people watching itv or bbc in the pub. The club game is completely dead. These ‘ fanatics ‘ put £0 into the sport. Football is a hundred times bigger than rugby in Wales, no matter what anyone says.

Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑23 Apr 2025, 07:34 p.s. on rugby, do you not think that it is professionalism that has killed club rugby?

Rezzer1967 wrote: ↑23 Apr 2025, 11:10

Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑23 Apr 2025, 07:34 p.s. on rugby, do you not think that it is professionalism that has killed club rugby?

Back in the day there was a very healthy club system particularly in hotbeds like Pontypridd, Pontypool and loads of other places around the valleys. This centred on the club house and the bar and had a connection to the community. Even this was exaggerated by the pro-rugby local media. As soon as they went to professional ‘ regions ‘ that had no history, no back story and then unbelievably started paying players like they were footballers they were f@cked. Paying players £10k a week with under 4000 crowds and tiny tv deals was only going to end one way. All the regions have gone bust only to be bailed out by the governing body. Cardiff are in that position now. The sport is completely reliant on international games and particularly what they take at the bar. There’s always some trouble at these games and the WRU are terrified that the police are going to ban drinking pitchside. The whole thing is cheap and embarrassing . Yet for some reason the ‘ narrative ‘ that Wales is all rugby, male voice choirs and coal mining remains. You’d think it was still the 1970s the way that some of these arseholes go on. I blame Max Boyce. I don’t think he bothers going any more. The football team plays in front of full houses with loads of kids and it’s showing in the results. Qualifying for 2 Euros ( one semi final ) and a World Cup while the rugby team has lost something like 17 matches in a row. The pro-rugby b@locks the local media come out with make Putin look like a lightweight.

veriton wrote: ↑26 Apr 2025, 01:06 Just read Boxing Scene are being frozen out of attending events, including Benn v Eubank.

Must admit as a BN subscriber, it didn't sit well that former editors and writers had switched to a free internet website in direct competition with BN, and therefore undermining the old girl.

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑26 Apr 2025, 05:04 Who owns Boxing Scene? Does it make money?

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑26 Apr 2025, 06:11

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑26 Apr 2025, 05:04 Who owns Boxing Scene? Does it make money?

CBS uses to own it. Not anymore.

Some Writers moved over to Ring, including Jake D, but he came back to BS.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑26 Apr 2025, 06:11

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑26 Apr 2025, 05:04 Who owns Boxing Scene? Does it make money?

CBS uses to own it. Not anymore.

Some Writers moved over to Ring, including Jake D, but he came back to BS.

mickey1975 wrote: ↑26 Apr 2025, 13:23 They've just announced The Ring digital is now free and they're refunding everyone who bought it.

1549395 wrote: ↑26 Apr 2025, 16:06 Triss Dixon's editorial on the site makes for great reading.
To paraphrase him he reckons that Turki's Ring Magazine is wanting to be the go to source for boxing news and opinion which would be heavily slanted towards their own product.
Therefore BS has to be squeezed out and denying press access is the start of the Dirty War.

veriton wrote: ↑27 Apr 2025, 01:25 The Saudis have no intention of playing fair, it's not something they're known for. Last night's fight showed how much this country loves boxing, we don't even need anyone 'solving boxing'.

The second someone invents a tiny, powerful and removable battery for cars and machines, the Saudis will be stuck in the desert with nothing anyway. It can't be too far away.

johninmanchester wrote: ↑27 Apr 2025, 13:15

veriton wrote: ↑27 Apr 2025, 01:25 The Saudis have no intention of playing fair, it's not something they're known for. Last night's fight showed how much this country loves boxing, we don't even need anyone 'solving boxing'.

The second someone invents a tiny, powerful and removable battery for cars and machines, the Saudis will be stuck in the desert with nothing anyway. It can't be too far away.

The Arabs are well aware of this.

The founder of Dubai, Sheikh Rashid, was asked about the future of his country. He replied, "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes, my son rides a Land Rover, and my grandson is going to ride a Land Rover…but my great-grandson is going to have to ride a camel again."