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Originally posted by Chollo Vista
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Sneaky a$$
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That dude sent me a red k without responding to me Sneaky a$$
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But you had no problem with that guy in your profile pic giving Dominic Britsch a title fight ???? FOH with your faux outrage about a former champ coming off a win getting a shot when they guy your guy was gonna give a shot was nothing more than a domestic level european.Originally posted by Blue Heffner View Post
This is for the WBO WORLD Championship. This shouldn't even be allowed. Ain't no way in hell that Rohan Murdoch is worse than this. Dominic Wade would beat this guy. This is worse than Salka. This guy has no business being anywhere near a world title shot. This is dangerous. I know you can't always go by records but look at the records and weights of his opponents.
His last 6 fights:
162.75 lbs Britsch 32-2-1
163.25 lbs Slavisa Simeunovic 21-13-0
UD 8/8 Britsch
162 lbs Britsch 31-2-1
167.5 lbs Aro Schwartz 6-0-0
UD 10/10 Britsch
162 lbs Britsch 30-2-1
145.5 lbs Adnan Zilic 12-11-0
RTD 1/8 Britsch
162 lbs Britsch 29-2-1
156.5 lbs Suleyman Dag 10-63-0
TKO 2/6 Britsch
159.75 lbs Britsch 28-1-1
159.75 lbs Soufiene Ouerghi 5-3-0
MD 8/8 Ouerghi
159.5 lbs Britsch 27-1-1
157.75lbs Soufiene Ouerghi 5-2-0
MD 8/8 Britsch
THE GUY WASN'T EVEN RANKED IN THE TOP 100 MIDDLEWEIGHTS!!!!!!!
http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=715475Comment
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UFC is killing boxing, and rightfully so. We got the three biggest fighters (Canelo, GGG, Pacquiao) fighting mismatches or fights no one cares about.Comment
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Spencer fighting Bundu in some park with no undercards shown is a sign this sport has gone to the dogs.Comment
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It's simple, the answer is always money.Comment
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Killing it dawg! another day on boxingscene more b*tching.Originally posted by Motorcity Cobra View PostComment
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Lol...He just beat Abraham and everyone knows that's even after that victory, he's a prospect. Golovkin said earlier this year that Ramirez was too experienced right now. LOL...We disgree, it's okay. You don't need to explain yourself to me. Just be the promoter that you are and make boxing better. I'm not about to talk in circles. You know the expectations of guy like Garcia is much higher than Ramirez right now. And even if Ramirez kept defending his title against inferior opponents (hasn't defended yet), I'd criticize him the same.Originally posted by Motorcity Cobra View PostComment
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two sided "A list" fights have been priced out off of HBO and showtime.
they just can't afford to pay two "A side" purses. so the fights either go to PPV, or they don't happen at all. just look at what happened to HBO when they paid alexander and bradley 3 million to fight [and the loser got 1.25 million garantee to come back
] rememeber that fight? no :lol1? well ok then!
in a single word, it is because of inflation. the fees to get a license to carry these fights are too high for regular HBO.
if danny garcia can make a million to fight a salka, he will. he will not take a million to fight spence after you give him a million to fight salka. you've inflated the purses.Comment
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They do though. Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors was built up with an 82 game season and 3 additional playoff series. The Cavs and Warriors play all the teams whether it be the OKC Thunder or the Milwaukee Bucks. The best don't play the best night in and night out.Originally posted by Blue Heffner View Post
Same thing with the Super Bowl. It's built up with a 16 game regular season and 3 playoff games.
Megafights are built up through two stand out fighters, beating top contenders in their division and ending up being the last 2 men standing.Comment
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If you look at it logically, the reason is that it's too easy to avoid them. For both the fighters and the promoters. Until it becomes too difficult for fighters to make money any other way than fighting top competition, they will continue to avoid fighting top competition.
It's easy to blame this promoter or that promoter, but they all have a hand in it. They're all part of the same fu*ked up system. The promoters don't design the incentives, they just live by them. Granted guys like Arum and Haymon are far more responsible for this than smaller promoters because they have more power. But they are operating under the established logic of the sport as well, build stars up soft and match them even softer unless there's a truckload of money parked outside.
The biggest problem is that it's hard for anyone to make long term investment in the future of the sport when they might not survive long enough to see the return from it. So it's all about making money now, bleeding whatever you can get out of the game while you have the chance.
The balance is all out of whack in the sport. That philosophy is extremely destructive and has been eating away at the sport for decades. The promotional cold war is obviously very bad for the sport as a whole, but for a while at least, it was working out ok for the players.
And if you're a smaller player, forget about it. When you're trying to keep the lights on you're not going to gamble away the one or two stars you have because it's the 'right thing to do for the sport'. You're going to hold them close until you get a satisfactory return on your investment.
My two cents is that boxing needs a financial crash. The business landscape needs levelling. This might mean PBC going bust, or HBO withdrawing for good, or anything that sucks tens of millions out off the game. A big external shock is needed to bring all the players back to the same table again.
These dudes (1) have to be forced to work together to make money again, and (2) have to be forced to innovate. Both those things need to happen for boxing to move forward. A big financial shock is the surest way to bring it about. When these guys are desperately trying to put a series of multi-promoter tournaments together in order to make some dough, then you'll know we're going somewhere.Comment
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