Shoving a mic between fighters during the face off
Posted: 02 Sep 2026, 16:26
Does DAZN ever miss an opportunity to lower the bar?
I first noticed this after the Hrg Moses weigh in. Some member of crew looking like an utter bell end shoving a mic between the fighters during the face off so we can hear what they're saying to each other, as if we didn't already know. I assumed it was some overexcited junior who'd broken protocol and as a result was live broadcasting F words to a pre-watershed audience. He's getting shit canned, I thought.
Turns out it wasn't some rogue junior. This is another stroke of genius from DAZN. Today, during the Dubois Wardley face off, the same weedy, intrusive little arm pokes the mic between them so we can listen to their horrific, cringe-inducing dialogue.
Brothers, I ask you: Was the face off not better when the back and forth was left to the imagination? Isn't there something inherently more compelling about watching two fighters square up without having a mic shoved between them to capture every playground insult? And aesthetically, does it not look utterly ridiculous?
Hunter Thompson predicted that boxing would one day merge with professional wrestling, and with the manufactured feuds & storylines, the hysterical overselling of everything, the silly overblown ring walks and costumes and now the increasingly desperate attempts to capture every bit of supposedly menacing dialogue at the face off, we seem well on the way. I'm increasingly embarrassed to be a boxing fan.
I first noticed this after the Hrg Moses weigh in. Some member of crew looking like an utter bell end shoving a mic between the fighters during the face off so we can hear what they're saying to each other, as if we didn't already know. I assumed it was some overexcited junior who'd broken protocol and as a result was live broadcasting F words to a pre-watershed audience. He's getting shit canned, I thought.
Turns out it wasn't some rogue junior. This is another stroke of genius from DAZN. Today, during the Dubois Wardley face off, the same weedy, intrusive little arm pokes the mic between them so we can listen to their horrific, cringe-inducing dialogue.
Brothers, I ask you: Was the face off not better when the back and forth was left to the imagination? Isn't there something inherently more compelling about watching two fighters square up without having a mic shoved between them to capture every playground insult? And aesthetically, does it not look utterly ridiculous?
Hunter Thompson predicted that boxing would one day merge with professional wrestling, and with the manufactured feuds & storylines, the hysterical overselling of everything, the silly overblown ring walks and costumes and now the increasingly desperate attempts to capture every bit of supposedly menacing dialogue at the face off, we seem well on the way. I'm increasingly embarrassed to be a boxing fan.
