Peter Klein breaks down a lackluster boxing weekend—where even Naoya Inoue’s thrilling win couldn’t overshadow safe fights, fading hype for Haney-Garcia, and a puzzling lack of urgency from contenders.
🥊 Key Takeaways:
✅ Inoue’s bright spot: Why his performance stood out in an otherwise forgettable weekend.
❓ Haney-Garcia fallout: How their cautious approaches drained fan excitement.
🛡️ The "safety first" problem: Are pre-booked fights discouraging risk-taking?
💬 Fair critique or too harsh? Let’s discuss in the comments!
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🥊 Key Takeaways:
✅ Inoue’s bright spot: Why his performance stood out in an otherwise forgettable weekend.
❓ Haney-Garcia fallout: How their cautious approaches drained fan excitement.
🛡️ The "safety first" problem: Are pre-booked fights discouraging risk-taking?
💬 Fair critique or too harsh? Let’s discuss in the comments!
📌 Couch Potato Diary—Sports analysis without the hot takes.
#Boxing #NaoyaInoue #HaneyGarcia #BoxingAnalysis #SportsPodcast #CouchPotatoDiary #BoxingNews #DevinHaney #RyanGarcia
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00:00It has become tradition that the sport of boxing takes over on Cinco de Mayo weekend. For a long
00:12time it was Canelo Alvarez fighting this weekend. Before that Floyd Mayweather was able to have
00:18success box office wise fighting around this time. A lot of big moments. This is one of the
00:25tentpoles of the year in the boxing community. Well the tentpole blew over this week because it was
00:33it was an awful weekend of boxing. I don't think there's any way to sugarcoat this aside from saying
00:40this was a bad bad weekend in the sport of boxing. The spectacle on Friday was neat but none of the
00:49fights delivered. Teofimo Lopez had a just a sparkling defensive performance in his fight.
00:56That the great counter punching and defense of a guy third from the top should not be the highlight
01:03of your show and that is what it was. And then it got a little bit better on Saturday but then Canelo
01:08against Skull sorry was just a dud. Inouye does have a bit of a dramatic win on Sunday as he gets
01:14put on his keister and still comes away with a win but it's far from saving the weekend. This was
01:21horrendous. It was really really bad and I think like Friday you can kind of make a bit of an excuse
01:27for some of the fighters initially right like it's a weird thing that there isn't a setup at
01:33Times Square for these guys to fight in. They weren't able to go to the Jollibee that was over there
01:38to get warmed up to get everything like that. They had to go to I think it was at the fighter hotel
01:42they got their stuff all ready to go and then they drove. Ryan Garcia took the Batmobile. They
01:49drove from the hotel up to the arena. Do your entrance walk in and do it that way. That's weird.
01:55That is different from the normal that you experience as a boxer right and so I can understand
02:01how that would throw you off a little bit. For the first few rounds but I feel like by the sixth
02:07we should we should be warmed. We should be that that lather that they talk about that they should
02:12have that. We should know what's happening and be able to adjust and be able to actually do
02:17something here on the fighting side of it and instead it just it never clicked and so then again
02:23okay atmosphere no one paid to be here. You had a bunch of celebrities a bunch of celebrity look-alikes
02:29which was odd. That was so weird and also caught Lampley off guard which was really funny when he was
02:36like oh well Snoop Dogg's here and Mike Combin just said well close and then you realize that
02:41they're look-alikes and it's just okay well that's that's weird and then so you have a bunch of people
02:46sitting around the ring who have been invited but aren't really making a whole lot of noise and so
02:51when you are used to fighting in hockey rinks or football stadiums it's it's a bit different when
02:58you're fighting in front of 18 people and none of them are making any noise because they're just kind of
03:02there to to see something that it's tough to get the the adrenaline flowing but that should only be
03:07an excuse for the first six rounds and it's like okay you know what this isn't happening we need to
03:11figure it out in a different way. I just I can't imagine that all these guys had this issue for 12
03:16rounds. It was just it was brutal. It was a bunch of fighters playing it safe um for the big and I am
03:22more specifically going in on the Friday thing because of the the spectacle that was supposed to be.
03:26We'll talk about the Canelo thing in a second here but when you were looking at the the fights on
03:30Friday the um Teofimo fight the Haney fight and the Garcia fight all of these guys were keeping it
03:37safe. I again I will I will take Teofimo out of that because I think that he just fought a very good
03:42counter striking game and he did it masterfully by the way like he was really good on Saturday or on
03:48Friday night sorry but um for for Haney and Garcia it looked like they were trying to keep it safe and
03:53this is one of the issues with how this all went down because Turkey puts on this big thing
04:00for Cinco de Mayo weekend and we're gonna do something that's never been done before and it's
04:04Times Square and it was basically used as like the raw go-home show before the big pay-per-view coming
04:11up later on in the year because this was used as the thing to build up Haney against Garcia and the
04:15rematch and like you looked at the the video package that they put together and it was fun right like
04:20they're going through all these different things in Times Square and meeting the animation style and
04:24all of that but it was talking about Haney against Garcia and it's like well and these guys are gonna
04:28fight different people tonight oh okay um but both fighters both Haney and Garcia looked every bit like
04:35guys who have a big money fight set up for September or on down the road and just didn't want to get
04:41hurt and didn't want to mess that one up a little bit and so what comes out of that is that you have
04:46two performances that makes no one interested in Haney Garcia at all now by the time that fight
04:53comes along there will be enough promo there'll be enough this that or the other thing Ryan Garcia
04:57will have done nine stupid things and you'll be able to build up the fight that way and we won't
05:01really remember this but there were probably a lot of people tuning in and I'm not we are past the
05:07point of doing the oh my god did this kill boxing we're past that point right but this was the first
05:12real step back I think boxing's taken in a while since Saudi money came in and all these mega events
05:18are being put on and I think it was Turkey and co kind of overthinking things and overplaying their
05:26hand a little bit you can have a bit of a like handshake like yeah Haney Garcia you guys can get
05:31it going but the fact that it sounds like they had contracts signed and ready to go it really did
05:36seem like it was like I just don't don't get hurt in there and let's see we'll see you guys on down the
05:42road there was no urgency there was no offense even it was brutal to to watch that one and then
05:49Garcia goes out and loses and that just adds even more to the what the fuckness of the whole thing
05:56like just a brutal brutal display um in Times Square there on Friday night and I think one part of it too
06:05that was just just a quick aside Jim Lampley came out of retirement for this one and he had the I
06:13don't give a fuck of a guy who didn't care if he got another job at DAZN or not like he and I'm sure
06:20that hey I don't think that he is going to get punished for this at all but even if he did what
06:26does he care like oh okay I'll just go back to being retired then like Jim Lampley could host a
06:30boxing anything tomorrow and he would get paid pretty well for it and so he was just going to
06:35be honest about it and it sucked and he was saying like yeah this was this was not great and the one
06:40fight where he was saying like well in order to dream you need to be asleep and that fight put us
06:46to sleep uh like just those sorts of things it was just it was fantastic all night also I know
06:52they've kind of been building up Komponger a little bit and obviously he has a thing with Turkey
06:55with Ring Magazine now and and all of that but um I don't think he's there yet for this sort of a
07:02thing he just like when you compare him to some of the other guys who have been in those spots uh
07:07he just he did not have that at all and I'm like I'm not the biggest Mannix guy when it comes to
07:11boxing but Mannix just called circles around Komponger in that sort of a setting so like from a
07:18broadcast standpoint it was just it was and like all of that like that part of it too was weird you
07:22have Kate Scott who does the uh Champions League stuff for CBS and the broadcast stuff that they
07:28do there and she is dynamite on that like the the playing off of um Thierry Henry and everyone else
07:33that they have on there like she is one of the best hosts in the world and so I think she did a really
07:37good job then you have McAfee who is him right like he he is every he has Pat McAfee in capital
07:45letters and I think again there was a little bit of let's let's bring some eyeballs in so instead
07:49of just random desk guy x well let's bring Pat McAfee in now McAfee is doing his show from here
07:56on Friday and now we are getting more buzz we are getting more attention placed onto our event because
08:00this is happening and McAfee understands selling understands building it up I don't think he
08:06understood the fighters all that much and so you get a bit of a whatever and then it's Mike Tyson as
08:12the the other color guy and Mike Tyson is one of the most from a fighting standpoint one of the most
08:18respected figures in the history of boxing when it comes to what he can do in the ring and what he did
08:23in the ring I don't know if you've heard him the last little while though we're not exactly
08:29articulating at our our peak levels let's say and while the guy at one time was an amazing trash talker
08:35with the defenses and pregnant eat your heart all that stuff um that this was not this was not him
08:42and so having him on the desk it just it got uncomfortable every time and you could feel both
08:48McAfee and Kate trying to like keep themselves back from saving him a little bit and just keeping
08:53it going and it just felt like it all came to a stop and then the broadcast would go to to Tyson
08:58every now and then while the fights were going on and now thankfully not a fucking thing was
09:02happening when those fights were happening so we okay um but it was like okay Mike you you saw
09:07something there in that first round yeah these two guys are fighting really really great and it's been
09:11fun to watch so far cool Mike thanks appreciate it dude uh like I just he it was a lot to bring
09:21eyeballs in and it just didn't seem like a lot of thought was put into hey is this gonna be good
09:27it was okay let's do time square and like the drone shots are cool and all of that and it's like
09:32okay well can we make this in a way where the fighters are gonna be comfortable not really no okay
09:36well whatever time square cool cool cool cool cool cool um okay well let's let's have some big
09:42fighters on this Teofimo Lopez uh Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia let's let's roll with these guys out
09:48okay great yeah there's a rivalry there we're gonna find have them fight each other no they're gonna
09:52fight different people say okay well we can we can build to that and say if these guys win they're
09:56gonna get it right no they're gonna have a contract for that anyways okay well now they're probably
10:01gonna be playing it safe in a weird atmosphere that they're not comfortable with so we're gonna need
10:05the broadcast crew to be on top of it who we're gonna have Pat McAfee has he watched any of these
10:09guys boxed before doesn't seem like it no cool all right well we're gonna need a real expert like he
10:14can bring the energy he can sell he's a wrestling guy too right like he can sell that uh so who are
10:18gonna have us hide him Mike Tyson can Mike break down any of this stuff now and again I'm not
10:24disrespecting Mike I I again like we all cheered for Mike in that awful fight on on Netflix and uh have a
10:30full respect again for the in-ring abilities of one Mike Tyson but that he got he got put into a
10:37spot that he shouldn't have been put into he should have been a let's talk to him once about some of
10:44the things that he saw and make it honestly let's talk to him once 25 minutes before we're going to
10:51air it so that we can then chop it up into little chunks and make it seem like it was an awesome in-depth
10:56analysis-y thing and have it be that um it just it all was done for what we can put out on social
11:02media and what we can say we did and none of it was done for hey is this actually going to be good
11:07and you then get that with Canelo too and Canelo I think is the bigger overall point of this whole
11:13thing is that you can have dull fights with stakes or you can have fights with no stakes and a lot of
11:20action you can't have a weekend full of dull fights with no stakes and that's what Canelo has kind of
11:26turned into is that he has fought a bunch of guys that we now know he is significantly better than
11:33and so because of that um we are going to need to see some exciting fights but we don't get those
11:39either and so you just get these fights that don't matter that aren't getting finished that aren't
11:45exciting but are lasting 36 minutes and just dragging on so it was just an awful awful weekend
11:53and we'll still break it all down when these guys fight again because now apparently it's Canelo and
11:58Crawford uh coming up at a later date as well so this was a unique outing for DAZN it was a unique
12:05outing for um Turkey and this new kind of era of Saudi boxing and basically all of it failed
12:13so a learning experience for them
12:15so a learning experience for them
12:15so a learning experience for them
12:16so a learning experience for them
12:16so a learning experience for them
12:16so a learning experience for them
12:16so a learning experience for them
12:16so a learning experience for them
12:16so a learning experience for them
12:16so a learning experience for them
12:16so a learning experience for them
12:16so a learning experience for them
12:16so a learning experience for them
12:16so a learning experience for them
12:16so a learning experience for them
12:16so a learning experience for them