Hit or a miss? has it been organised well or has the list of fighters pulling out ruined it for you? Has it been unfair on Euro fighters that Ward hasn't had to travel Once throughout the whole thing?
Personally I've enjoyed it, flawed concept but has ultimately delivered with some good fights.
Opinions please
Hit or a miss? has it been organised well or has the list of fighters pulling out ruined it for you? Has it been unfair on Euro fighters that Ward hasn't had to travel Once throughout the whole thing?
Personally I've enjoyed it, flawed concept but has ultimately delivered with some good fights.
Opinions please
I agree with ya thoughts on it..
At the end of the tourney, we would have watched a total of 10 fights, spread out across 2 years. If you want more than that, then nothing can satisfy you in boxing.
Match ups I would have liked to see that we didn't get were:
Dirrell vs Kessler
Taylor vs Ward
Abraham vs Kessler
Taylor vs Dirrell
Ward vs Dirrell
Out of 15 possible match ups, we got 10, how can you ask for more? So all 15 didn't happen, but 10 did, how about if none of this happened, 0, no Super 6 whatsoever?
Plus, barring the Taylor matchups, all of these fight cans still happen.
It was a good concept but it took to long to complete should've tried to maintain a better time frame to many long layoffs.
If you're going to put JT in bcse you need a name why put him in with a big puncher the 1st round when everybody knew if he got KO'd he'd leave.
Also before the tourney Ward said he didn't want to fight Dirrell unless it was big money or a big time fight bcse of their friendship so when he had chance to pull out guess what
Ward having all his fights at home when everybody else traveled out of there countries.
And to have Allen Green as a back-up??
Injuries and delays are just going to happen but those were a few oddities
They should of just had the winner of Froch-AA fight Ward in the finals i thought and bypass the last round
did anybody really need to see Ward-AA and Johnson only had 1 fight in the whole tourney
But all in all it was exciting initially and a good way to match the best of a division but would be surprised if they did it again and with this experience maybe they'll be able to improve.
Be surprised if they didn't go with single elimanation instead but hopefully Showtime or HBO will continue with tournament structures in the future it does add energy to the fights.
With the pullouts, what's the fight you feel you've missed out on the most?
Personally I can only think of 2 Ward vs Dirrell (would've been boring but interesting imo) and Kessler vs Abraham (could've been interesting)
great concept would have been a great success if it was with younger fighters like the 140 division. the point system could have been better
kessler I get and nobody saw that coming with dirrell but whoever thought that Jermain Taylor could stay in the whole tournament should be fired
great concept. Would've loved to see this a couple years back at 147 with Cotto, Mosley, Margarito, Pacquiao, Mayweather, Berto/P. WIlliams (or someone else). We got some fights out of it, but not all.
I would say it was somewhat of a HIT!
It introduced me to guys like Andre Dirrell and Andre Ward, guys who I knew about but never really had a chance to watched since they turned PRO
I knew Froch and Kessler and like most I thought one of them or Abraham would win it all before the Tournament started because they had all of the Belts and more Experience in BIG MATCHES
Unfortunately it didn't go as smoothly as they wanted it to with Dirrell, Kessler and Taylor pulling out but still it was more of a Hit then a Miss...especially if they can get Andre Ward vs Carl Froch in the FINALS and then that match goes on to be a VERY GOOD MATCH!