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The possibilities...
Maybe a MotoFiteClub appearance next year is in the books!!
Your comparison would be more like Dungey and Villopoto racing each other for Make A Wish.
The Shop
Yeah. Tyson in a 1 in 1 fight with Roy Jones Jr. (one of the greatest pfp fighters in history) 2 years out of retirement is much safer than Ryan Dungey racing a few SX races to show teams he’s “still got it” and maybe get an opportunity. MC did it.
You know how many boxers have died in the ring? At 54 that could have gone horrible wrong, easily.
And as for your comparison, he had the opportunity at MotoFiteClub. And he didn’t do it.
The only other "factory" situation that I could have seen would have been Suzuki opening up their checkbook and keeping JGR running another year with him on board. But obviously there would have been a lot of angles that could have made that a pipe dream.
Oh yeah, was a draw.
Was also clearly labeled as an "Exhibition"
Did Las Vegas take odds on the fight?
Also we are tossing opinions around. No such thing as a wrong opinion. If you disagree just scroll past.
If Dungey would have had an opportunity to make millions and have the equipment and logistics taken care of, he would be there.
He’s not going to privateer it and grind and struggle to prove it. He doesn’t need it that badly, but if the opportunity presented itself he would have.
That’s what I take from it all and is my speculation.
Pit Row
You’re expecting him to do more than a one off event. I don’t see Mike Tyson or Roy Jones Jr coming back to fight for the title. And if they did it would be while getting paid.
Same as being overly reliant on some insurance company..
No doubt he would be top 5..
Or be his own sponsor on the team he was trying to put together for himself. I was never reallllly convinced he was gonna go through with the return to racing, there was hardly ANY promotional stuff like videos of him riding hardly at all throughout the entire time he was "seriously looking" into his alley-like return to SX. I cant lie I was excited and think he wouldve done very good but I dont buy that nonsense he couldnt get enough support. All he needed was a factory bike, hell he couldve ridden the 2020 bike and I doubt honda would've minded. The 2020 bike for all intents and purposes was a well developed and bike ready to race SX.
He didnt NEED a 2021 that he wouldve had to spend all that time getting it setup Specially sensor's been a shortage of bikes and parts for that model.
He could have tested the waters and ridden a handful the 1st few rounds to see how things go that wouldn't have had to been a serious commitment by Kim's thinking he could get himself against other riders plus the training program would not have to be nearly as gnarly from to do maybe 5 races to see where he is.
Tomac had 15-16-17 to get that sx crown and it wasn’t even close except for 17’ when dungey wanted out after breaking his neck anyway.
Like I mentioned on the homepage in a comment...
Having talked with a few ex-pros, for some staying retired is easy. For others, it's not. They can quickly forget the reasons for wanting out and have to do a bit of rediscovery with themselves.
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