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BOXING RANT: Why promoting the '0' has to go for the sake of boxing's future

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4.8 โ€ข 1.5K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 6 September 2024

โฑ๏ธ 10 minutes

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Summary

For a generation boxing promoters and TV networks have sold fighters on their unbeaten records, but is it time for a rethink in order to progress the sport? Does protecting a fighter's '0' do more harm than good to a sport that's undergoing a Saudi Arabian revolution? Nick has a rant and argues why banging on about undefeated is cropping pugilism. #boxing #mma #undefeated ๐Ÿ“บ Become a YouTube Member: https://www.youtube.com/c/fightdisciples/join Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2VDBmci Welcome to the official YouTube channel for the award winning fight sports podcast, Fight Disciples. Hosted by Adam Catterall and Nick Peet, Fight Disciples celebrates the biggest personalities within Boxing and MMA, bringing you unique content on a weekly basis. Named 'Best Fight Sports Podcast' 2017 and 2018 at the British Podcast Awards. Visit our website www.fightdisciples.com and subscribe to our multi-award winning podcast for FREE! ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST: https://link.chtbl.com/FightDisciples ๐Ÿ“ฒ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefightdisciples ๐Ÿ“ฒ X: https://twitter.com/fightdisciples ๐Ÿ“ฒ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fightdisciples ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Please leave a review on Apple Podcast & Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My disciples.

0:09.0

I've seen a post from Eddie Hain yesterday which triggered me. He messaged Ray Ford publicly on X and Twitter

0:18.1

and used the words still unbeaten in my eyes and then hitting about Ray Ford's move up to Superfederweight. I don't care about

0:26.7

undefeated. I don't care about unbeaten. That was a generation of boxing that's gone now.

0:33.0

Mayweather was the one that really took it as far as you can.

0:36.0

You know, he ran it right to the death, you know, underfeited,

0:39.0

that was the big thing.

0:40.0

Getting to 50, you know, even though, let's be honest, he scraped over the line at the end.

0:44.8

But again, when he got to the end, did anyone give a flying fuck?

0:47.2

Did anybody care?

0:48.5

Did anybody say, well, that's it now, then, put him ahead of Rocky Marciano,

0:51.9

put him ahead of Mohammed Ali

0:53.0

put him ahead of you know sugaray lennard sugaray robin city's the greatest of all

0:56.6

time because he's got to 50 you know no we didn't nobody really cared it was a

1:00.8

selling point it was a market employee, it was a promoters spin. The future of boxing doesn't look like that.

1:07.0

The problem with boxing is we don't get the big fights, we don't get big fights often enough. The best don't fight the best often enough enough but that's the way the sport is going

1:13.7

we're led to believe that the Saudi Arabian money coming into boxing will ultimately unlock

1:19.7

the best fighting the best more consistently. We're going to get champion

1:24.2

cross weight divisions single weight divisions. We're going to get

1:27.5

tournaments which unlock the best of the best which ultimately crown them number one in each way class.

1:35.0

So where's like undefeated, unbeaten need to be cast aside, knocked down, laid down in the

1:42.1

analysts of boxing history of a certain period of time where

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