Fan Slappin’, Lip Flappin’ & Bull Crappin’: A Week of Hot Air on Beat Street
I’m not often a fan of what comes out of people’s mouths and this week’s been no exception. I’ve been left with my own trap hanging wide open on three separate occasions, with each of these fly catching opportunities resulting in a feeling of (in turn) slight anger, amusement and bemusement.
After a month of cancellations, accusations and fights dates going up in smoke (is it summer 2009 again?), beleagured fight fans felt bouyed by the performances of rising starlets ‘Juanma’ Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa this past weekend. After Lopez scythed down Steve Luevano and Gamboa blew through Rogers Mtagwa on their second successive headlining fight card together, fans naturally did the math and declared an interest in seeing the pair matched together.
“I know what people want and they can go [expletive] themselves,” Bob Arum declared.
There’s that hope dashed then. Arum did elaborate on his charming retort further though.
“I want to wait and build this to be the biggest featherweight fight of all time. It’s my job as a promoter to do that. When they fight, they’ll fight to be best featherweight in the world. I want to see those two clean out the division and I don’t want to see them rush to fight each other. There’s no way I want to rush and do this.”
Mmm, fair enough Bob but seriously, the last thing the most poorly rewarded fans in all of sports need right now is abuse from one of its senior matchmakers, especially for simply wanting to see a good fight.
It wouldn’t wash in any other industry. Imagine Stuart Rose declaring that M&S shareholders keen on reducing plastic bag usage could go and ‘eat their own [expletive]’…..or ‘suck his big fat [expletive]’. There’d be protests amid the ailses of pre-washed salads. When Gerald Ratner labelled his company’s product as ‘crap’, he instantly wiped £500m from its coffers; Arum’s damn lucky he doesn’t deal in jewellery.
I’d love to see old Bob ostracised like Ron Burgundy, cocooned in his own glass case of emotion.
Next came more nonsense from the Mayweather family who really are overdue their own ‘Osbournes’ type fly on the wall show. Floyd’s uncle Roger (the Ozzy of the clan) recently threw his hat into the PED debate with some astonishing comments about Manny Pacquiao on a recent radio talk show.
“That mother***** is on the A-side meth, that’s what the f*** he’s on,” “It’s called the A-side meth. He on that or he on something else. The A-side meth is what they used to have 500 years ago. Remember when the Philippines were fighting the US soldiers? They were shooting them motherf****s with 45s. And 45s were bouncing off their motherf****ng ass. They weren’t even dying!”
Whaaaaaa…………….???
There have been some hilarious forum discussions on the subject with some folk fairly confident that Roger has himself confused with mythological amulets rather than this bizarre ‘A-side meth’ he keeps rambling on about in the interview. I’ve saved you the bother of listening to his crazy lip flapping by omitting a link, most of the recording is filled with him repeating himself anyway.
“how can that motherf***** turn down $100 million just so he didn’t have to take the test”
Bizarre but hilarious all the same.
Finally, I read this quote a couple of days ago from the Golden Albatross himself.
“John Ruiz is a very experienced fighter who knows what it takes to dominate in the heavyweight division and to win when it counts in a big fight,” De la Hoya said. “I expect a great fight that fight fans shouldn’t miss.”
I haven’t too much to say on this latest pearler from Oscar. If anyone can advise on an occasion when the WBA’s love child (Ruiz) has dominated even a fight never mind a division, I’d be intrigued to hear it. I’m also not entirely sure just how Haye-Ruiz can possibly be a great fight but it’s an interesting one nonetheless, certainly enough for me to snaffle £50 tickets to attend (ringside seats were going for £600, whoa that’s hefty).
- Frank Warren’s bad month goes from strength to strength. Firstly Khan decides the grass is greener on the other side of the Atlantic and then Sam Sexton withdraws as headline act on Warren’s huge February card at Wembley. To make matters worse, Sexton’s opponent Danny Williams then balks at the idea of Derek Chisora replacing the Norfolk heavyweight………before agreeing………only to subsequently pull out due to a ‘virus’. Bit of a nightmare there then- I’m now not quite sure who Warren’s referring to with his ‘Night of the Champions’ tag line.
- Still no news on Carl Froch-Mikkel Kessler or John Murray-Anthony Mezaache tickets, which is a bummer.
- Is it me or is it quiet? Haye-Ruiz, Hopkins-Jones, Adamek-Estrada, Urango-Alexander, Smith-Dodson, Klitschko-Chambers……………sheesh, kinda hard to get excited about much right now.
- If Haye whups Ruiz and elects to face Audley Harrison or Bernard Hopkins next in big money novelty fights, he’ll deserve all of the criticism coming his way and more. He has to lure a Klitschko into a fight after Ruiz (and then show up).
- The alphabet mafia are considering a super heavyweight division? Imagine how much Chris Arreola could eat whilst still comfortably retaining his place as a top ten contender. It’s NACHO time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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