Jeff Powell
Posted: 13 May 2015, 05:53
'Journalists' have regularly ripped off the hard graft put in boxing websites , often lifting interviews not just word for word, but page by page and given no credit whatsoever.
But when they build a story around a website article, and then credit it, they wrongly think they have extended courtesy to said website.
So I find it cringeworthy that Powell has ran with the headline "Stats Prove" - and then credits the worst click-bait website in history. Talk about backfire ! to run a ridiculous headline is one thing, to have perhaps the worst trolling site in history as your 'proof' takes the cake.
"One dedicated website in America, Boxing News 24, sat its leading commentators down to monitor the video, first at actual speed, then in slow motion, finally frame by frame." he writes, completely and utterly unaware that nearly all the different names used to post bile against hard working boxers, all come from one person who uses multiple aliases like Scott Gifoid and Ambrose whatever.
I genuinely think there should be a cull of these geriatric fools from boxing, and we can throw in a few commentators too. The sport desperately needs new life injecting into it. Some ex-boxers can cut it, but I've found many don't even care that much about the sport anymore and are jaded with it by the time they get behind a mic. The print press and television should get some of the new blood on board and push them to the front, because a lot of old guard are going senile and treading water until they can draw a pension - which is obvious in their lazy journalism and complete lack of excitement on screen.
I cant remember which fight, for some reason im think Froch Taylor - but someone posted a link to the radio coverage and it was fantastic, better than watching the fight itself. I often accidentally catch top goals scored overseas in La Liga - and the commentators go absolutely wild and capture the spirit perfectly.
The UK print and TV is completely stale, contrived and downright blind if you count the draw result handed in by our prominent journalists, or the coverage of Burns Figueroa.
But when they build a story around a website article, and then credit it, they wrongly think they have extended courtesy to said website.
So I find it cringeworthy that Powell has ran with the headline "Stats Prove" - and then credits the worst click-bait website in history. Talk about backfire ! to run a ridiculous headline is one thing, to have perhaps the worst trolling site in history as your 'proof' takes the cake.
"One dedicated website in America, Boxing News 24, sat its leading commentators down to monitor the video, first at actual speed, then in slow motion, finally frame by frame." he writes, completely and utterly unaware that nearly all the different names used to post bile against hard working boxers, all come from one person who uses multiple aliases like Scott Gifoid and Ambrose whatever.
I genuinely think there should be a cull of these geriatric fools from boxing, and we can throw in a few commentators too. The sport desperately needs new life injecting into it. Some ex-boxers can cut it, but I've found many don't even care that much about the sport anymore and are jaded with it by the time they get behind a mic. The print press and television should get some of the new blood on board and push them to the front, because a lot of old guard are going senile and treading water until they can draw a pension - which is obvious in their lazy journalism and complete lack of excitement on screen.
I cant remember which fight, for some reason im think Froch Taylor - but someone posted a link to the radio coverage and it was fantastic, better than watching the fight itself. I often accidentally catch top goals scored overseas in La Liga - and the commentators go absolutely wild and capture the spirit perfectly.
The UK print and TV is completely stale, contrived and downright blind if you count the draw result handed in by our prominent journalists, or the coverage of Burns Figueroa.
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