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Post by davemurphy on Jan 26, 2012 19:47:20 GMT -5
I heard the show the other day and BC was wondering where NBC Sports got Chris Mannix from (their roving reporter on the new Boxing Series). For the last few years, he's been the Boxing Writer for Sports Illustrated. It's kind of a sour point with SI for me. In the past, they've always had a writer specifically for Boxing, Richard Hoffer and before that Pat Putnam and before that Mark Kram. But when Hoffer left and Putnam died, the simply gave Mannix the Boxing assignment on top of his NBA duties, so now he does BOTH!!! I think that's been since 2009 (?), but he did NBA exclusively for several years prior to that. Shows how important our Sport is to the folks at SI now, I bet Mannix was simply the guy that drew the short straw and got stuck with Boxing  With as many excellent boxing writers as there are, many of whom live in Las Vegas where the majority of the fights that a Sports Illustrated is going to cover take place, and knowing they'd love to handle the occasional assignment free lance for SI, I wasn't that thrilled at one of their NBA Staff Writers getting the gig, but I do realize that we (boxing) have plunged to the bottom of the totem pole in terms of importance. He might work out at NBC Sports, I don't know.......but there's a awful lot of really good Boxing commentators lined up for what few gigs are available and IMO taking the moonlighting SI NBA scribe turned part-time boxing writer was a poor choice. |
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Post by billyc on Jan 27, 2012 5:13:56 GMT -5
That's been my issue...boxing needs BOXING PEOPLE reporting on it...its like that in every other sport. EVEN guys like Rafeal are not really "boxing people".
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Post by davemurphy on Jan 27, 2012 15:56:07 GMT -5
That's been my issue...boxing needs BOXING PEOPLE reporting on it...its like that in every other sport. EVEN guys like Rafeal are not really "boxing people". Agreed, Dan's only real value takes place months before the fight when he breaks the story about how it's going to take place. His actual analysis of what happens inside the Ring is worthless, he doesn't have the expertise to make even the most minor of observations. Shamefully, that's true of the majority of boxing writers, most of whom are as clueless as Dan. |
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Post by billyc on Jan 27, 2012 16:20:05 GMT -5
He has NEVER written anything about a fight....the KO punch, the defense. etc....he covers the date, time, place, purse, etc.....
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Post by davemurphy on Feb 1, 2012 23:12:55 GMT -5
He has NEVER written anything about a fight....the KO punch, the defense. etc....he covers the date, time, place, purse, etc..... Yep, even something so simple as one of the guys being a Southpaw is never mentioned. It's basically why you'll never hear Dan talking to Trainers, unless it's someone like Roach and then he's asking him the same questions he would the promoters, the nuts and bolts are beyond his comprehension. |
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Post by billyc on Feb 2, 2012 4:08:25 GMT -5
why is boxing like that? How can a guy like him do what he does? Are you (not you) telling me that he is the ONLY one out there who can do it?
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Post by Davema on Feb 2, 2012 11:48:42 GMT -5
Im not sure "Joe fan" cares much about whether or not a reporter writes about left hooks and uppercuts. Rafeal's job is to report the happenings and thats what he does. I think only boxing purists care much about that stuff. With the overwhelming amount of boxing news and website articles, etc, its actually nice sometimes to go to Rafeals column and just get the facts like purses,venues,etc and not so much opinion and chest pumping.
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Post by billyc on Feb 2, 2012 12:08:03 GMT -5
Thanks for bringing me down DaveMa!
Wow....there goes the air in THAT balloon!
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Post by Davema on Feb 3, 2012 11:04:31 GMT -5
Thanks for bringing me down DaveMa! Wow....there goes the air in THAT balloon! you know i love you, Billy C |
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Post by billyc on Feb 3, 2012 14:31:30 GMT -5
that's not what I heard!
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Post by Davema on Feb 3, 2012 18:31:21 GMT -5
depends on what day of the week and who you talk to!
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Post by billyc on Feb 6, 2012 4:39:19 GMT -5
no one talks to me
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Post by davemurphy on Feb 9, 2012 16:30:51 GMT -5
I talk to you. We often have conversation on here between just the two of us  |
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Post by billyc on Feb 12, 2012 9:50:30 GMT -5
LOL...I hear you. This forum died after the "Santoliquito" issue with ring! I guess I forced the hit on the site. Its too bad...we DID have some good guys hanging around!
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