ArchivesContender “ignores … that boxing’s appeal rests with its resistance to cleanliness.”
Examining NBC’s The Contender and its lack of overwhelming success so far, The New York Times’ Richard Sandomir argues that producer Mark “Burnett’s intended pasteurization of boxing … ignores the historic truth that boxing’s appeal rests with its resistance to cleanliness.” The show, he writes, “plays up the fairness of who fights whom; there are no predatory promoters roaming the ring before and after bouts; one boxer doesn’t make the other one wait interminably before leaving his locker room, and venal villains whom viewers would want to see knocked out have not emerged.” As such, the series is “disappointing” and “distorts what real boxing is.”
The Contender
Contender “ignores … that boxing’s appeal rests with its resistance to cleanliness.”
link to this story + posted Mar. 22, 2005 at 5:00 AM by Andy Dehnart
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