Laughing Out Loud
By William Trillo
It never ceases to amaze me how often the press releases that get sent to us for posting look as if they have been penned by an out of work comedy writer. What amazes me even more is how often these press releases get posted on websites across the world wide web. Quite frankly I know we have been guilty of posting some of those hilarious press releases but this week we were on our toes and hit the delete button before they saw the light of day.
One press release that was particularly funny was about a certain unnamed serpent of Hispanic origin. The release started out by saying, “After an impressive seventh round technical knockout of Calvin Green…”
Okay, stop already, I am going to wet my pants.
When you beat a guy fighting as a Middleweight, who fought the rest of his career as a Welter & Jr. Welter “impressive” is not the term that comes to the forefront of my mind. Staying on that same path in your next fight is… well…just as funny.
The next line that press release starts, “One of the most skilled boxers in the sport today..” ahem…
Websters dictionary defines skilled this way: having acquired mastery of or skill in something.
So, I guess in a sense, if you masterfully duck and dodge every big fight that has been put in front of you and instead have taken on only lesser opponents, well then I guess you are skilled in something. Especially if you can find a way to get those “fixes” and turn them into a title shot.
Next, this wasn’t a press release but I saw a certain promoter professing that his charge was not only going to beat one fighter from Canada, Jean Pascal, but after the fighter was done with him he was going to go back up north and beat Canada’s finest, Super Middleweight Lucian Bute. Struck me as odd coming from a guy who promotes one of the fighters in the much ballyhooed Super Six Tournament that is supposed to crown ‘The World Best” Super Middle. That is of course unless you don’t think your guy in the tourney has a chance in hell of beating Bute…………………….which he doesn’t, as do none of the other five in that Round Robin Tournament.
Speaking of that Super Six and press releases…for weeks we got nothing about that tournament because quite frankly, there was nothing going on. Now that there is finally a fight coming up, we and every website on the planet are getting inundated with press release after press release. Fighters in their gym, fighters in their hotel rooms, fighters doing about everything but fighting. OKAY! We get it, there is a fight worthy of note this weekend. What will be more worthy to note is if Allan Green beats Andre Ward, and trust me, I will note that until me, you and everyone at Showtime is blue in the face. DEEP DEEP BLUE!
And lastly to The Los Angeles Lakers. I must admit I was pretty hard on Ron Artest for missing those 2 late free throws in Game 5 and wondered aloud if The Lakers would have not been better suited to still have the services of Trevor Ariza. After seeing how Artest came back in games 6 and 7 of the series against The Boston Celtics I have to say without a shadow of doubt that without Artest The Lakers would not have defeated The Celtics to secure yet another world title. “Ron Ron” came up huge huge and I will never question his abilities again. Congratulations to all The Lakers!
On a side note, to everyone outside the L.A. area who are seeing footage of fans going berserk on the street and setting fire to cars and ripping down street signs, let me assure you those are not Laker fans…those hooligans are Raider fan, each and every one of them. They couldn’t afford a ticket to the game so instead they mobilized outside The Staple Center and as soon as the Lakers won they were in position to deploy and set forth with their embarrassing carnage. Nice work Raider fan, no wonder everyone outside of The Valley hates us.
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