“My Intention Is to Shake This SH*T Up”: Days After $2.2 Billion Giant’s Startling Announcement, Former World Champion Willing to Join Terence Crawford and Ryan Garcia to Chance Boxing

The landscape of boxing has changed with the exit of Showtime Boxing. After televising some of the biggest fights in contemporary boxing, the network is coming to a halt. However, this is an opportunity for the promoters and fighters to change certain aspects of the sport. Superstar Ryan Garcia urged fans, and all authorities involved, to re-brand the sport and make it more accessible to fans around the world.

Along similar lines, Terence Crawford took to X and made his agreement with Garcia known. According to the undisputed welterweight champion, boxers must unite to safeguard their best interest. Witnessing this a former world champion made his inclination to join this union known. Who is this former world champion and what does he have to suggest? Let’s find out.

Who is going to join Ryan Garcia and Terence Crawford in the movement to re-brand the sport?

Despite facing the champion and being defeated by him, Shawn Porter has made his desire to join Crawford and Garcia known. The former world champion has an impressive record of 31 wins with just four defeats. Moreover, he is an opinionated individual and has a podcast of his own named, ‘@ThePorterWayPod.’ In a recent episode, he revealed that he has already been working on changing some dynamics of the business side of the sport and lauded Crawford and Garcia for joining hands.

He stated, “What could possibly be happening with PBC? The list goes on. Bottom line, it’s time to shake this sh*t up, and I told you I’ve been working on some things. I’m still working but my intention is to shake this sh*t up all the way to the fullest. When you got people like Bernard Hopkins speaking on it, you got people like I saw uuuu… Ryan Garcia spoke on it , Terence Crawford responded to his tweet. It’s about goddamn Time”

It is safe to say that just like Garcia and Crawford, Porter wants to contribute to changing certain norms that have been in place for a long while. Another former champion also made his opinion known on the Showtime exit.

“I don’t care”: Legendary boxer on the showtime exit

The collapse of showtime has ignited several opinions. However, legendary boxer Bernard Hopkins has apathy towards it. According to him, the network absence may not have felt at large and does not really change boxing either for the better or for the worse. He stated, “I don’t look at Showtime being out of boxing as a bad or a good thing. They want you to think that way. I can say I don’t care. But I do. I care that it’s a change. It’s a new world.”

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