AHAHAHAHAHA Is this Greg? Fucking FAG!!!

If Greg were any kind of man, he'd post an actual response. Maybe try to tell his side of the story... Since he doesnt I'm going to have to say thats basically an acknowledgment of this whole thread being truths.

Way to go Greg, way to fuck up you're fighters careers (not that they had promising ones anyway)

FOR THOSE OF YOU MISSING MAILBAG AT BT.......

Yo-G-Man, what's going down. Just wanted to send a holla to let you guy's know you're still the shit. Wazzup wid yo man Green. Don't let the haters get you down G., this guy got what it takes to make some noise. Man if it wuz me I'd take short money and go grab the belts and be in the drivers seat. Let everybody come to you and you'll be calling the shots. Course that's just me, you're the master LOL. Anyway, love the site, keep it up.
D. Schnizel

What's going D? Nice to see Brooklyn passport holders giving a shoutout! Don't worry bout my man Green, he's still a but punchy from Miranda and does everything I tell him, LOL. No, for real, we got this thing covered like my newborn who's probably at home right now, hope so LOL. Look for Green to be making some green real soon, not like the chump change being thrown around like some of the haters are saying. Be cool. G.

I'd be real curious to know how much Heard sold the site for to Leon, and how that bum scraped up any cash to buy the thing. If he does sell it, I'm willing to bet he's going to want mucko bucks for it.

I'd be real curious to know how much Heard sold the site for to Leon...

$5000.00

US Dollars!!!!

Yeah...if memory serves me correctly, it was $5000 and ol' Heard turned over all the files to the site.

Ol' Heard had one last trick up his sleeve though...

But that is another story....

HATER \ A label applied to people who are more negative than positive when discussing another person. It most commonly refers to individuals whose negativity is so extreme that it is all-consuming. However, there are various levels and forms of being a hater, ranging from completely dismissing any positive traits or actions, to merely painting a less than flattering picture by using words with negative connotations. Hating is often attributed to jealousy, but just as often, it seems to stem from some other source.

JonnyBlaze!!!!!! What's good man. Long time, no see. I don't think I've seen you since one of those ol' school chats.

Anyway, thanks for the support bro.

Yeah, not letting the fans get the phone calls anymore was pretty much right around the time when things started to change. As you can tell from his response, it was never about giving back to the fans or the paying members...it was only about trying to prove that he was credible. It quickly became less and less about doing things for the fans, the fighters and the sport and more, more about hustling people to put money in his pocket.

Every week that goes by, the site becomes more and more of a joke. Other than DiBella's lawyer Scott Shaffer, none of the "senior writers" that he has listed (Budd Schulberg, George Kimball and Bert Sugar) do any writing for him. Bert Sugar never even did anything for him...he couldn't because ESPN wouldn't let him. Speaking of ESPN, George Kimball left and bounced to ESPN.com (makes you wonder if leon is bitter about that given his recent attacks regarding the Rafael situation). And Budd Schulberg...well...if you don't know who Budd Schulberg is, he's a legendary boxing writer...the author of the novels What Makes Sammy Run, The Harder They Fall and the Academy-award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront. Anyway, somehow, leon got hooked up with Budd's son Benn...one thing led to another and the next thing I know, I was told to add both Benn and Budd to the list of correspondents. Well, I think Benn may have wrote like one thing for the site so when I asked leon why he was keeping those guys on board in favor of some of the other guys he was looking to dump, he replied to me, "Shit nigga, Budd Schulberg is like 90 some years old. When he dies, I can say he was with boxingtalk. Holla!"

Fucking disgusting.

Hell, now he's got a mailbagger doing the mailbag and half the names on his correspondent list have either gone on to other sites (like Michael Campbell, Mike Samuels, Mike Walters, Dan Horgan and Brad Cooney), don't do anything anymore (like Don Wright, Cara Castronouva, Philip Gonzalez and Ray Campbell) or are simply fake aliases (like B. Artest, Wyatt Johnston, Ramon Rodriguez and Hector Linares). It's a fucking ghost town over there...nothing more than a PR website for his fighters and some of his friends who want to talk a little smack thinking they might get a fight. I don't think anyone needs a better example of how bad things have gotten than his recent coverage of Margarito-Cotto. I mean, talk about pathetic. No articles, no interviews, no predictions...no nothing. Just more talk about his beef with Rafael regarding one of his fighters mixed with a few mailbags answered by some fan.

It's really sad....I don't think I've seen that site at such a low point...not even when good ol' Ron Heard was running it.

LOL!!!!! Hehehehe!!! These tidbits are better than the greatest Soap Opera ever written!

So after Ron turned over the site info to Greg for 5000 Peso's...hahahaha, ok dollars!, how much ownership did Ron actually still have? The story that I heard years ago was that Ron had some personal family problems and either had two options: To sell out the site to a third party, or just turn over the operations to Greg. But if memory serves correctly, wasn't there always some animosity between Ron and Greg over who had property of what from the very beginning?

"The suspense is terrible! I hope it will last!" -Willy Wonka

I really wonder how many members he has now..

Gleon rockin more of those Exclusive Monte Barrett interviews!

Isn't it funny that it's soooooo obvious it's him doing the interview. He doesn't even bother to change up his writing style at all to fool people.

"Closing thoughts?"



And since when does Monte Barrett deserve higher billing than Roy Jones Jr.?

Exactly Ben!

In Greg's sick, twisted, exploiting, mind, he would think, "Fuck pre/post fight coverage for Margarito-Cotto!!!" I got the very best like............(drumroll...............) MONTE BARRETT AND ALLEN GREEN!!!!!

Soon, Greg will be locking those interviews as well for the privileged and exclusive 3 people that even go to that site anymore!



Jack

BT is the worst boxing site out there without a doubt. And to think he charges for Vernon fucking forrest interviews. LOL

BT is the worst boxing site out there without a doubt. And to think he charges for Vernon fucking forrest interviews. LOL

You know whats funny?(Rhetorical Question) But before I even started posting on this site(like in 05 or 06) I was looking for sites to get interviews and boxing news and I ran across b-talk.com and I always wondered why the fuck where they charging for the interviews...............I never actually thought that I would ever find the answer to that question. Thanks hype now my life is complete.

I would never pay to read an interview. Maxboxing charges for some of there interviews also. Max is owned by ESPN who has shit loads of money so why charge? Does ESPN charge for their baseball and football interviews?? Just wondering.

Although I "DID" (pay) I don't agree with the "pay" model in any sport personally.

Regarding the previous question that depends (about ESPN)

Does ESPN charge for their baseball and football interviews??

No but they do have an "INSIDER" page that you have to pay for where I don't know if there are interviews there or not. I'm a huge sports fan in general and during the various trade deadlines of whatever sports, guys who had an "INSIDER" account would post what was posted.

Frankly IMO in hindsight most of the stuff that was said in the "INSIDER" columns would come out later anyways.

The only justification that I see that a boxing site (in particular) can say for a pay model is that boxing is NOT a mainstream sport any longer(thus theres not a huge influx of money other sources clamoring at every angle like other sports). Also if you're a boxing junkie like me that loves watching interviews, training sessions, hype interviews, press conferences, etc that aren't generally available or most importantly is even a NICHE offering for a boxing fan that you just can't get.

The way Hype described the interviews is dead on.

Oh yeah that leads me to the "HI HATERS" poster. It's pretty obvious that was Greg(damn you really put him on blast posting his IP,lol) damn you moron at least use a proxy if you're gonna do that. I was gonna type about how PATHETIC your site has gotten but you know what dude, life goes on. Things change and things move on and perhaps you should. I was gonna reminisce about the "good ol"days of logging in and they're being a tidbit but screw that nostalgia. Now it is what it is and I'm sure you can read webtrends or some other monitoring software that your hits are no where near the levels they once were. You can look in the mirror to see the problem. As an "advisor" rather than focusing on some silly "monkey business", you should be doing something to get your fighter as much exposure as he could get for his fight tomorrow.

I mean damn, why give you ANYTHING when you don't even have an add pointing to SHOBOX tomorrow night?? Having a "hustler" trait isn't a bad thing but you can't be a "hustler" forever dude. There has to be some destination at some point or else you're the hamster always running in the wheel..
I'm sure the above is lost on deaf ears or should I say eyes so oh well.

Question: If your fighter Ishe has a fight tonight shouldn't you have gotten your man Artest to do an interview?
Also, if Brad from Australia doesn't write, is there a mailbag?

Just wanted to know do you think Oscar is really gonna retire after this fight and if he does who is his likely opponent. I been hearing Manny but i'll believe it when i see it. Also who do you think the winner of Jones and Calzaghe fight next. Could it be the Tarver Dawson winner.
G what up,

Leon's Response: Do I think he's going to retire? No way. Fighting once a year he can keep it going for another five years. Forget about the Pacquiao fight it's a circus act. Tarver and I spoke over the weekend, and he expressed to me that the fight wasn't done because he wanted more money. The winner of Jones-Calzaghe should fight whoever looks like the biggest threat from the Tarver-Dawson, Pavlik-Hopkins fights.

Do you really think if Zab beats Clottey that he deserves to fight Oscar? I think Manny has a better shot at Oscar in the ring than ZAb sh!t even Floyd has a better chance at facing Oscar than Zab. Don’t get me wrong Zab is good but he has stacked to many L’s up lately to get that fight. But what makes you think Manny and Oscar won’t happen and if it doesn’t who do you think will.

Leon's Response: Deserving the fight and being the most sensible PPV option are two different things. Brother, Oscar De La Hoya is a different animal. There isn't anybody else who could lose his last fight and provoke you to ask me if a champion would deserve to fight him.

Hey G, your 'bag' is the sh*t! Floyd should fight Margarito, show everybody how it's done, collect his big check then go fishing! Hopkins will give Pavlik a boxing lesson! Taylor fighting Lacy does nothing to improve Taylor's skills but it is a money fight because how many people know who Carl Froch is? Roy Jones WILL defeat Calzaghe and then DEFEAT Wladimir Klitschko (in the battle of the glass chins)! I know Zab is your boy but Clottey will send Zab into early retirement. Cotto is still more marketable then Margarito, so Arum will neglect him to instead rebuild Cotto. If the 5'7" lifelong junior lightweight Steve Forbes was able to give Oscar De La Hoya a "pumpkin head" then Pacquiao will BEAT Oscar's a$$!

Leon's Response: Floyd is retired. Margarito should fight Paul Williams. Pavlik-Hopkins will be interesting but unattractive. I wouldn't be surprised if the old man pulled it off, because Pavlik isn't the same kind of beast above 160. Fighting above 160 twice in his last three fights is also killing his ability to establish himself as one of the great middleweight champions, while making it more and more difficult for Pavlik to get back down to 160. I also like Roy over Calzaghe, but he's never fighting Wladimir Klitschko. Zab is focused and Clottey is as hungry as they come. There's no question Zab is going to have to bring his A game to walk away with the IBF strap tomorrow night.

Leon's Response: Pacquiao has become the Mexican Assasin. Nate Campbell is the best black lightweight, but he's got a serious fight coming up with Joan Guzman, so he's currently unavailable. Other than that, Joel Casamayor, Juan Diaz, Michael Katsidis and Juan Manuel Marquez, the other elite lightweights are all unavailable, so Bob gets a pass on another B level Pacquiao fight. Valero would be the most interesting, but won't do big business. De La Hoya isn't happening, and Soto is a who cares kind of fight.

Sir: I would like to see how PacMan can handle an aging ODLH. ODLH may have an advantage in height but the PacMan has his speed. You can't just hit a moving target with a speed like an ox! I hope you also watch and enjoy this to see the most spectacular upset in boxing! Thank you and more power. mcemman

Leon's Response: If Oscar were to lose to Pacquiao his career would be over. There are many other boxers Oscar can fight, lose to, and still remain the straw that stirs the drink. Glad you want to see it, but I don't think it's going to happen.

i think this discussion is hilarious. it's amazing how that guy really did have a great website and slowly but surely just let it fall to shit. i saw a recent mailbag that had some fake write-in that the guy was saying all this stuff about how he was obsessed with b-talk and was addicted to checking it all day long. you know that one is fake because only like one or two things go up per day, if that.

thanks for all the insider info.

LOL. Someone seriously wrote that? Man I guess there are a lot of people wating to see in which public bathroom Vernon Forrest is going to shit in.

Just out of curiosity, I checked out Btalk's P4P list. Leon still has Wright at #5.

Another thing is that he rates the lineal champs just like Ring Magazine except they are called Boxing Talk champs. I wonder if he has given them Btalk belts yet.

Another thing is that he rates the lineal champs just like Ring Magazine except they are called Boxing Talk champs. I wonder if he has given them Btalk belts yet.

Greg makes them out of broken fake Rolex's glued onto old shoe leather. Thay have street bling & serious cred. I hear Zab has his one on the wall of his cardboard box & Tarvers has a prominent position next to the crack pipe in his tenement.

Hey Ben can you please make a Uber egotistical mailbag full of selp important bluster & we can write letters of praise. Better yet ignore us & just make up fake letters full of praise for the Hype.

Another thing is that he rates the lineal champs just like Ring Magazine except they are called Boxing Talk champs. I wonder if he has given them Btalk belts yet.

Again, for the record, Scott Shaffer, Lou DiBella's lawyer, is the one that updates their ratings (it's gotta be tough to be unbiased when determining the ranking for DiBella's fighters)...and you laugh, but a Btalk belt was actually in the works at one point (in fact, I think I might still have some emails from Leon and Shaffer talking about it) and Floyd Mayweather Jr. was supposed to be one of the first fighters to receive it.

Leon would definitely try to get a percentage out of Mayweather, or at the least have him wear a Boxingtalk shirt to the ring accompanying the $15 dollar belt he had custom tailor fit for Money May.

15$? I don't know Leon but from what I've heard that's more than he would be willing to invest.

Which brings us back to you Hype. Come on man, whats up with the "FightHype" SHIRTS?? Me and I'm sure most of the other guys would love to support you in this. It'll be a nice way to put some $$$ into what you do for us.

Again, for the record, Scott Shaffer, Lou DiBella's lawyer, is the one that updates their ratings (it's gotta be tough to be unbiased when determining the ranking for DiBella's fighters)...and you laugh, but a Btalk belt was actually in the works at one point (in fact, I think I might still have some emails from Leon and Shaffer talking about it) and Floyd Mayweather Jr. was supposed to be one of the first fighters to receive it.