Whyte finally acknowledges Fury bout; Andy Ruiz return set; Fundora tips hat to Lubin; Triller loses IBF appeal; FFU podcast; Mizzone makes move; Quick hits; Show and tell
Good stuff, Dan. Enjoyed the newsletter and the BFW pod.
A few thoughts:
- though it’s hard to care a ton about Andy Ruiz not fighting Luis Ortiz as has been rumored, since it would have been some stupidly priced PPV I likely would have skipped anyway, fighting Sponge on Triller is surprising and a step further from relevance for Ruiz. Just a ‘who cares’ fight.
- BTW, Dan- does this day anything about Ruiz’s relationship with PBC going forward?
- re: Triller’s IBF loss: hahahaha! Great end to that fiasco of a business decision from the jump by Triller. Idiots.
- I disagree with you about the justification of the “interim” title in the Fondura-Lubin fight; years ago it would have been a final eliminator that would have been enforced; now they give them a belt to defend while they drag their feet making the title fight. I guarantee Fondura will defend that belt before he fights the winner of Charlo-Castano, and that’s nonsense.
- love the Lupe Pintor show & tell! We are fight freaks here, and would love to see more of your collection of some of the great fighters that weren’t quite superstars. Show me some Orlando Canizales and Kennedy McKinney and Wayne McCullough and Simon Brown stuff… guys like that.
I understand why the Inoue-Donaire fight is in Japan, but it's quite a shame that such a huge rematch is going to be so hard for many of us to watch live.
I was hoping to be able to watch it live - but I'll be headed out to work at that time.
Unlike the GGG vs Murata fight, the time of day is not the main issue - it's the day of the week for us North American Mon-Fri office 🐑.
I'm sure I'll see a recap in my inbox from you that I'll read about later in the day.
I can't help but feel Top Rank isn't living up to buildings Inoue up as much as they could outside of Japan - the last time Inoue had a US fight scheduled (if I remember correctly) was with Casimero that was cancelled early 2020 with the pandemic. What do you think Dan?
Good stuff, Dan. Enjoyed the newsletter and the BFW pod.
A few thoughts:
- though it’s hard to care a ton about Andy Ruiz not fighting Luis Ortiz as has been rumored, since it would have been some stupidly priced PPV I likely would have skipped anyway, fighting Sponge on Triller is surprising and a step further from relevance for Ruiz. Just a ‘who cares’ fight.
- BTW, Dan- does this day anything about Ruiz’s relationship with PBC going forward?
- re: Triller’s IBF loss: hahahaha! Great end to that fiasco of a business decision from the jump by Triller. Idiots.
- I disagree with you about the justification of the “interim” title in the Fondura-Lubin fight; years ago it would have been a final eliminator that would have been enforced; now they give them a belt to defend while they drag their feet making the title fight. I guarantee Fondura will defend that belt before he fights the winner of Charlo-Castano, and that’s nonsense.
- love the Lupe Pintor show & tell! We are fight freaks here, and would love to see more of your collection of some of the great fighters that weren’t quite superstars. Show me some Orlando Canizales and Kennedy McKinney and Wayne McCullough and Simon Brown stuff… guys like that.
roll on Fury vs Whyte
I understand why the Inoue-Donaire fight is in Japan, but it's quite a shame that such a huge rematch is going to be so hard for many of us to watch live.
Hard? Wake up and out on espn+. Not hard. Quite simple.
Some of us have Monday to Friday day jobs.
On demand whenever you want. Are you at work at 5-6 am?
I was hoping to be able to watch it live - but I'll be headed out to work at that time.
Unlike the GGG vs Murata fight, the time of day is not the main issue - it's the day of the week for us North American Mon-Fri office 🐑.
I'm sure I'll see a recap in my inbox from you that I'll read about later in the day.
I can't help but feel Top Rank isn't living up to buildings Inoue up as much as they could outside of Japan - the last time Inoue had a US fight scheduled (if I remember correctly) was with Casimero that was cancelled early 2020 with the pandemic. What do you think Dan?