IFilm talks to Wazza re.Mitchell, Frampton, Saunders,Dodson

[Final round]

http://youtu.be/ArnKac4Fgco

[Final round]

http://youtu.be/ArnKac4Fgco

"I'm not in the Kevin Mitchell Business, I'm in the Carl Frampton business."

[jameswilson]

fornicating Frank and his emails.

[Final round]

Kevin Mitchell's fucked off with a grand of Wazza's money!

[jameswilson]

Wilson - I fucked Anna Kournikova.

Everyone else - No you didn't.

Wilson - Do you wanna see the emails?

[Final round]

I'd rather see the knickers

[Newport Daz]

The twitter Q&A session with Kugan will be interesting. I wonder how long it will be before Wazza starts taking umbrage with the questions and starts threatening to sue everyone?

[mickey1975]

Frank is a resilient man, I can see him been around in his 80's like King and Arum. Knows the game inside out.

[jtourettes]

I was watching Question Time last night and it suddenly hit me how Frankie and Alan Johnson must be long lost brothers.

[lusop]

If people knew the real reason why he lost both Mitchell and burns .... As for lending Mitchell a grand it's only what he owes him anyway !!!!!!!

[Parson Cross]

...... and you do, do you ?

[TopGun]

If people knew the real reason why he lost both Mitchell and burns .... As for lending Mitchell a grand it's only what he owes him anyway !!!!!!!

No point saying that on here unless you elaborate.

[lusop]

If people knew the real reason why he lost both Mitchell and burns .... As for lending Mitchell a grand it's only what he owes him anyway !!!!!!!

No point saying that on here unless you elaborate.

Plus 25

[palooka]

If people knew the real reason why he lost both Mitchell and burns .... As for lending Mitchell a grand it's only what he owes him anyway !!!!!!!

No point saying that on here unless you elaborate.

Plus 25

Who is Mitchells' managers? If he's owed money from the promoter then the manager ought to take it up surely?

[lusop]

Plus Burns ... times 6

[palooka]

Plus Burns ... times 6

If FW owed money to a boxer then the manager ought to act on the boxers behalf and chase it up, isn't that one of the duties? Don't managers have solicitors etc or could they not contact the BBoC to get it sorted? £25,000 is a lot of money to not get paid.

[Jack B]

Plus Burns ... times 6

If FW owed money to a boxer then the manager ought to act on the boxers behalf and chase it up, isn't that one of the duties? Don't managers have solicitors etc or could they not contact the BBoC to get it sorted? £25,000 is a lot of money to not get paid.

A problem, a lot of the time, is that the promoter is also the manager. Huge conflict of interest which should not be allowed.

[Deserter]

Frank is a resilient man, I can see him been around in his 80's like King and Arum. Knows the game inside out.

I'm not so sure... look at the way Duff faded out as Warren rose. He knew the game inside out as well. Don't get me wrong, I'm not ruling someone as savvy as Warren out of it, but I also think it's naive to assume he'll emerge from this as strong as ever.

[earsjohn]

Frank is a resilient man, I can see him been around in his 80's like King and Arum. Knows the game inside out.

I'm not so sure... look at the way Duff faded out as Warren rose. He knew the game inside out as well. Don't get me wrong, I'm not ruling someone as savvy as Warren out of it, but I also think it's naive to assume he'll emerge from this as strong as ever.

FW doesn't appear to be entirely comfortable with the modern needs of social media and a 24 hour a day news and internet. His forays into the likes of Twitter come across as an uncomfortable 60-year old trying out something he doesn't fully understand. Of course this is fair enough, but as the head of a promotional stable in an era where ticket sales are almost certainly going to be boosted by an effective social media marketing approach, it seems negligent that his organisation hasn't addressed this effectively.

Dinosaurs become extinct because they are unable to adapt to the changing environment. It's all well and good saying he's been around for 30 years so he'll stay the course, but he needs to demonstrate and deliver a capacity to change. First step should be to stop taking every bit of internet criticism so personally and soften his image to fight fans.

[Deserter]

Frank is a resilient man, I can see him been around in his 80's like King and Arum. Knows the game inside out.

I'm not so sure... look at the way Duff faded out as Warren rose. He knew the game inside out as well. Don't get me wrong, I'm not ruling someone as savvy as Warren out of it, but I also think it's naive to assume he'll emerge from this as strong as ever.

FW doesn't appear to be entirely comfortable with the modern needs of social media and a 24 hour a day news and internet. His forays into the likes of Twitter come across as an uncomfortable 60-year old trying out something he doesn't fully understand. Of course this is fair enough, but as the head of a promotional stable in an era where ticket sales are almost certainly going to be boosted by an effective social media marketing approach, it seems negligent that his organisation hasn't addressed this effectively.

Dinosaurs become extinct because they are unable to adapt to the changing environment. It's all well and good saying he's been around for 30 years so he'll stay the course, but he needs to demonstrate and deliver a capacity to change. First step should be to stop taking every bit of internet criticism so personally and soften his image to fight fans.

Exactly, look what's been happening to Murdoch's print empire.

[mickey1975]

Frank is a resilient man, I can see him been around in his 80's like King and Arum. Knows the game inside out.

I'm not so sure... look at the way Duff faded out as Warren rose. He knew the game inside out as well. Don't get me wrong, I'm not ruling someone as savvy as Warren out of it, but I also think it's naive to assume he'll emerge from this as strong as ever.

Was Duff well towards the end, though? He seemed to dissapear and get ill very quickly.

[Jeff Thomas]

Frank is a resilient man, I can see him been around in his 80's like King and Arum. Knows the game inside out.

I'm not so sure... look at the way Duff faded out as Warren rose. He knew the game inside out as well. Don't get me wrong, I'm not ruling someone as savvy as Warren out of it, but I also think it's naive to assume he'll emerge from this as strong as ever.

FW doesn't appear to be entirely comfortable with the modern needs of social media and a 24 hour a day news and internet. His forays into the likes of Twitter come across as an uncomfortable 60-year old trying out something he doesn't fully understand. Of course this is fair enough, but as the head of a promotional stable in an era where ticket sales are almost certainly going to be boosted by an effective social media marketing approach, it seems negligent that his organisation hasn't addressed this effectively.

Dinosaurs become extinct because they are unable to adapt to the changing environment. It's all well and good saying he's been around for 30 years so he'll stay the course, but he needs to demonstrate and deliver a capacity to change. First step should be to stop taking every bit of internet criticism so personally and soften his image to fight fans.

Spot on,

He took the piss for as long as possible and now is reaping the rewards of not delivering. If he had listened to the idiots on forums that he despises so badly he might have stood a better chance of putting in place the adaptions required.

His failing has ultimately being Boxings loss. Now we're stuck with one show every few weeks. PPV for sub TOP CLASS promotions- THE EXACT reason why Matchroom were allowed to rise to their position now.

I paid for that last PPV purely out of support for Froch. I hope some of that money filtered into his pocket for being such a great example of a fighter - but that's it now I won't do it again and the boxing coverage absolutely sucks by and large.

Get some domestic shows on Sky give some of the small hall promoters a chance to put together good competitive cards. We're heading back in the direction you and us wanted to not go in.

[Deserter]

Frank is a resilient man, I can see him been around in his 80's like King and Arum. Knows the game inside out.

I'm not so sure... look at the way Duff faded out as Warren rose. He knew the game inside out as well. Don't get me wrong, I'm not ruling someone as savvy as Warren out of it, but I also think it's naive to assume he'll emerge from this as strong as ever.

Was Duff well towards the end, though? He seemed to dissapear and get ill very quickly.

I might be wrong, but I thought there was a decent lag time between Warren usurping Duff and the latter suffering from serious illness.
Anyway, there are other examples to back up my point... look at the way King has been increasingly squeezed out since Golden Boy's emergence etc.

[dbf]

Spot on,

He took the piss for as long as possible and now is reaping the rewards of not delivering. If he had listened to the idiots on forums that he despises so badly he might have stood a better chance of putting in place the adaptions required.

His failing has ultimately being Boxings loss. Now we're stuck with one show every few weeks. PPV for sub TOP CLASS promotions- THE EXACT reason why Matchroom were allowed to rise to their position now.

I paid for that last PPV purely out of support for Froch. I hope some of that money filtered into his pocket for being such a great example of a fighter - but that's it now I won't do it again and the boxing coverage absolutely sucks by and large.

Get some domestic shows on Sky give some of the small hall promoters a chance to put together good competitive cards. We're heading back in the direction you and us wanted to not go in.

Great post Jeff.

[Jeff Thomas]

Spot on,

He took the piss for as long as possible and now is reaping the rewards of not delivering. If he had listened to the idiots on forums that he despises so badly he might have stood a better chance of putting in place the adaptions required.

His failing has ultimately being Boxings loss. Now we're stuck with one show every few weeks. PPV for sub TOP CLASS promotions- THE EXACT reason why Matchroom were allowed to rise to their position now.

I paid for that last PPV purely out of support for Froch. I hope some of that money filtered into his pocket for being such a great example of a fighter - but that's it now I won't do it again and the boxing coverage absolutely sucks by and large.

Get some domestic shows on Sky give some of the small hall promoters a chance to put together good competitive cards. We're heading back in the direction you and us wanted to not go in.

Great post Jeff.