{"id":106906,"date":"2025-08-30T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106906\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:52:09","slug":"saul-alvarez-terence-crawford-boots-ennis-great-chins-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106906\/","title":{"rendered":"Saul Alvarez-Terence Crawford, &#8216;Boots&#8217; Ennis, great chins, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Last week you made a brief comment that now is the time for grassroots promoters in major fight cities to step up. I couldn\u2019t agree more, given the consolidation at the top of the sport. However, in order to avoid being pillaged by the powers that be at the top, I believe you need a strategic alliance of sorts. Let\u2019s take the five best fight cities from the east and west coasts with market appeal (roughly speaking). East: NYC, Philly, D.C., Chicago, and Miami. West: LA, Oakland, Phoenix, Houston, and Las Vegas. Again, this is approximate. Okay, so let\u2019s get a strong local promotional entity to represent each city (and cover nearby mid-major cities, i.e. D.C. and Baltimore; Chicago and Detroit). So we\u2019ll have 10 regional promoters get together and sell themselves into a network and\/or streaming service as a collective entity. All the matchmaking happens with everyone working hand in hand; cards are staged in different cities, and maybe if everyone\u2019s not too greedy we can get some decent insurance for these fighters. The regional\/local marketing\/pride thing is key.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week you made a brief comment that now is the time for grassroots promoters in major fight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,76724,17926,85,76725,959],"class_list":{"0":"post-106906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-jaron-boots-ennis","12":"tag-saul-canelo-alvarez","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-stephen-breadman-edwards","15":"tag-terence-crawford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}