Investigative boxing journalism

[moochi]

Boxing is a dirty business before it's a sport.

If you did any real investigative journalism, you wouldn't last as you'd either be taken care of, or, your reports would be silenced and not even published.

Think about all the PED cover ups, not to mention dodgy match making, champions who don't fight mandatories for years, etc..

[dan-b]

There is no such thing as investigative journalism.

At the risk of this becoming a semantic argument, yes there is. Or at least boxing journalists could go much further than they currently do, which mostly consists of amateurish content made in spare rooms and soft ball questions.

[dan-b]

Boxing is a dirty business before it's a sport.

If you did any real investigative journalism, you wouldn't last as you'd either be taken care of, or, your reports would be silenced and not even published.

Think about all the PED cover ups, not to mention dodgy match making, champions who don't fight mandatories for years, etc..

No one in boxing is that powerful (except maybe the Saudis). Boxing mostly consists of second and third rate businessmen and chancers. It's why I don't take grand conspiracy theories in boxing too seriously, I don't credit those involved in the sport with sufficient talent to pull them off undetected.

As I said in my previous comment, at the very least boxing media could try much harder than they do. I think we've seen enough soft ball interviews with Hearn to last a lifetime.