Will it take a death for celebrity fights to realize dangers?

June twenty fourth, 2021

Stacey Verbeek

Excessive-profile boxing promoter Lou DiBella is all the time vocal when there’s a perceived drawback with the game. None extra so than celeb boxing mismatches.

DiBella lately commented on a star boxing match between a former basketball participant and an ex-pop star. The occasion happened regardless of an enormous weight differential.

What transpired? – The apparent because the much-bigger sports activities star beat the smaller man from pillar to publish earlier than ending the struggle in two.

Taking to social media, DiBella let rip. He’s since spoken about it extra in an interview with Sirius XM.

Followers can hearken to the interview in full on the Sirius XM app. Beneath are snippets of what DiBella mentioned actually on the present.

CELEBRITY BOXING DEBATE – LOU DIBELLA

Not all of those celeb fights are created equal. Some are worse than others.
If individuals wish to watch two guys of comparable dimension and constructed, who cares however watching One man manner greater than the opposite is dangerous for boxing, and what is going to it take for individuals to appreciate this? Somebody dying?
It provides Floyd Mayweather credit score as a result of he advised individuals what sort of struggle [the exhibition] can be.
Throughout the board, we had been complaining that the primary occasion of the Shakur Stevenson struggle and about how boring it was. And Shakur Stevenson knew that.
Now greater than ever, boxing is a subset within the leisure enterprise. To get an enormous struggle, you will have to have the ability to entertain.

QUALITY

There are tons of boxing matchups, however he doesn’t assume any matchups are notably good. We’ve all these world champions however don’t create any of the fights to create high quality matchups.
Trainers and promoters abuse the necessary fights, fighters are pressured to take low-risk fights, nevertheless it doesn’t assist with the fighter’s leisure.
You get anybody to an undefeated report simply because your undefeated doesn’t imply that your good fighter. Who did you beat? Give him the fighter who’s an excellent fighter with extra losses in opposition to the undefeated man who has had simple fights.

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