{"id":415731,"date":"2026-01-17T17:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415731\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:19:10","slug":"does-it-get-more-random-than-carlos-zarate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415731\/","title":{"rendered":"Does it get more random than Carlos Zarate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In boxing, as in life, it works better of course if you are stupid. You know less, so you care less and worry less. It works better for everyone else, too, if you are stupid. That way you are easily led and fooled; easily both bought and sold to. That way you think boxing means one thing when it actually means \u2013 or meant \u2013 something else. You hear that Jake Paul is fighting Anthony Joshua, for example, and you don\u2019t so much as question it, for you see nothing wrong with it by the standards of today. All you might offer, in the form of a quote tweet, is this: \u201cLOL. SO RANDOM.\u201d This, you accept, is the new normal. It\u2019s why you find yourself watching Misfits the same way you watch “Love Island” or any other crap reality TV show. You call it a guilty pleasure. Or just a bit of fun. “Harmless” fun. It\u2019s also why you watch boxing, real boxing, find a second home in Riyadh, where big money can be made, and believe only what you see and are told. When someone asks you why Saudi Arabia now runs the sport, you reply only that it is \u201ca bit random, yeah\u201d and shrug your shoulders. You then hear of the banning of journalists from press conferences and fights and say, \u201cYeah, but at least we\u2019re getting the big fights now.\u201d Besides, why should you care about the access of some random journalist nobody even knows? You offer the same shrug of indifference when the subject of performance-enhancing drugs comes up and when those who have failed a random test are suddenly back in the ring making money. It doesn\u2019t affect you, so you just keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and \u2013 oh look, DAZN have posted. That\u2019s random. Who\u2019s Carlos Zarate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In boxing, as in life, it works better of course if you are stupid. You know less, so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,710,49,48,90120,2174,174661,81475,82],"class_list":["post-415731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlos-zarate","tag-dazn","tag-dazn-social-media","tag-mexican-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}