And now it's all laid out on the internet, we still have to check on a lot of it, but we now have a starting point for many things. Lee Samuels, a publicist for Top Rank who spends several hours a day on the Net, believes its influence is wide ranging. Some sites have become melting points for reporters, managers, promoters and television executives. Indeed, fighters like Hopkins go online daily to see what is being said about them. Managers e-mail sites regularly championing the cause of their fighters.
Boxers call each other out.
International fight results are a click away and rumors of fight cancellations can spread like wildfire. Tremblay, believes he could not do his job as effectively without such sites. I could do my job satisfactorily, but I wouldn't have the pulse of the boxing media the way I do now. Based on what writers are talking about, I can see what stories I can pitch to them. For example you'd get a boxing article out of the Philadelphia Daily News about 45 days after it appeared.