My thoughts on the whole "Lara/Rigo are hard to promote"

Action sells.

This is my point. I don't think Rigo or Lara fight exactly like Mayweather, but I feel they are like Broner in a sense that you could say that Broner,Lara, and Rigo all use Mayweather's fighting style as a foundation for there own (Broner more deliberately, Lara and Rigo due to Cuban amateur style of boxing). Broner chooses to be a little more aggressive offensively than Mayweather which makes him more open to being hit, while Rigo and Lara use the Mayweather foundation but choose to use there legs instead of the shoulder roll defense which makes them slightly more defensive minded in their fights and slightly less exciting than Mayweather. Trout is another one with that style as well. Overall it's not really Lara or Rigo's fought, Most people just think pure boxers are boring, and only love fighters like Brandon Rios or Lucas. But when you match pure boxers with pressure fighters you get good fights like the one we got Saturday. Its like how fun would it be watching a Matador without the mean Bull charging him?

Beat the crap out of them? Lol like he did to c level angulo Angulo looked like an A fighter on sat with his beast stamina he never stoped the attack and never even breathe hard, even his trainer said your not even breathing so thats good by like the 8th, and canelo was tired in the 3rd without throwin punches just tryin to dodge jabs lmaoo

While I don't like Mayweather, he isn't as boring because his skills make it interesting. I know Rigo has Mayweather type skills, but he uses them in a different fashion.

I dont care whos boring and whos not , i could care less who sells more then who i just want rigo and lara to get the top fights they deserve if they loose ok, but dont ignore them like there bums. i wanna see lara against trout, canelo or cotto because i know he'll win and beat the crap outta them ,not because i think it would sell. Organizing and promoting boxing events require millions of hard-to-find dollars. What we see on television didn't just appear out of nothing. Even the ring girls have to get paid. Long story short, investors have to make mon-neeey.

Homie is right. If anything, the language barrier is the biggest issue. Please don't sit here and say Mayweather become the PPV king based on his style. His level of bore is on par if not WORSE than Rigo and Lara. Need data? How about this. Lara KO % = 61% Rigo KO% = 66% Mayweather KO% = 59% When is the last time Mayweather did the damage to an opponent Lara did to Angulo or Rigo to Donaire? I think it's nationality as much as language barrier. Even if Rigo and Lara spoke English, they'd still be considered foreign. Who wants to watch and support a boring, foreign guy?

I dont care whos boring and whos not , i could care less who sells more then who i just want rigo and lara to get the top fights they deserve if they loose ok, but dont ignore them like there bums. i wanna see lara against trout, canelo or cotto because i know he'll win and beat the crap outta them ,not because i think it would sell.

Is just pathetic, dont have an easy audience to mesmerize with sh*tty being a punching bag boxing skills then don't even bother we dont want you ruining our cash cows WTF.

This good post... nice stat to throw in there as well. All three are entertaining to me, but to the casual fan, not so much. I think the real issue here is that Rigo and Lara's promoters don't see the same money being made as say a Donaire or Canelo and they both know that Rigo and Lara have their respective divisions ruled... or in their eyes, held hostage. I love Mayweather, Rigo and Lara. I love to see guys who can beat up dudes and walk away virtually unscathed. That is highly entertaining to me. But I am just being objective. Mayweather is not that far off from Rigo and Lara. Lara really impressed me Saturday. He showed he had a great chin. And honestly, I think he only got caught out of being mentally tired. He was pulling back and away with his hands down when he got caught. Those are mistakes that people make when they get mentally tired and Angulo was pressuring the hell out of him. That's why boxers need to be able to dig in and crack to get guys like Angulo off of them or out of there and Lara showed he could do that.

Mayweather can - and does - fight on the inside, he has an iron chin (never been dropped by bum ass fighters) doesn't run anywhere near as much as boring ass fighters, he's beaten every type of fighter at an A+ level and he's an entertainer outside of the ring. Nobody can say the same thing about Lara/Rigondeaux/Typical Cubastan boxers.

Homie is right. If anything, the language barrier is the biggest issue. Please don't sit here and say Mayweather become the PPV king based on his style. His level of bore is on par if not WORSE than Rigo and Lara. Need data? How about this. Lara KO % = 61% Rigo KO% = 66% Mayweather KO% = 59% When is the last time Mayweather did the damage to an opponent Lara did to Angulo or Rigo to Donaire? This good post... nice stat to throw in there as well. All three are entertaining to me, but to the casual fan, not so much. I think the real issue here is that Rigo and Lara's promoters don't see the same money being made as say a Donaire or Canelo and they both know that Rigo and Lara have their respective divisions ruled... or in their eyes, held hostage.

mayweather is nowhere are boring as those two although lara seems much better off since the grit that angulo brought with him, but vs vanes the fight was truely awful and rigondeaux when faced with a counter-puncher will just turn off, 2 punches a round is lame they aren't exciting, people see their fights and aren going to want to waste their hard earned cash some of these guys still think like amatuers, you're not a true pro until you can attract, whether it be via bad mouthin people, engaging backstory or just in-ring action Homie is right. If anything, the language barrier is the biggest issue. Please don't sit here and say Mayweather become the PPV king based on his style. His level of bore is on par if not WORSE than Rigo and Lara. Need data? How about this. Lara KO % = 61% Rigo KO% = 66% Mayweather KO% = 59% When is the last time Mayweather did the damage to an opponent Lara did to Angulo or Rigo to Donaire?

Bob Arum essentially made stereotypical remarks that 'White' Cubans were not into boxing and they mainly followed baseball, and that since most Cuban boxers are black that there wouldn't much of an audience. If someone remembers the exact quote they can post it here, or simply google it. I know Arum did get some slack for it, and some black cubans actually agreed with it. I wouldn't fit into the Arum stereotype as my natural color is Ricky Hatton white (before the Florida sun) and my dad is Cuban. Yet i given plenty of money supporting Arum events both in person and PPV. :wtf:

I agree with the post! They shouldn't be hard to promote at all. Aside from the fact that Rigo and Lara don't speak english, I don't feel that there fighting styles are that much different than Mayweather (The richest boxer every). I'll go out on the limb here and say that Mayweather is the Greatest Salesman of all time in boxing, but he fights very much like a Cuban. Which isn't a bad thing at all btw. He's 44-0 Sweet Science. mayweather is nowhere are boring as those two although lara seems much better off since the grit that angulo brought with him, but vs vanes the fight was truely awful and rigondeaux when faced with a counter-puncher will just turn off, 2 punches a round is lame they aren't exciting, people see their fights and aren going to want to waste their hard earned cash some of these guys still think like amatuers, you're not a true pro until you can attract, whether it be via bad mouthin people, engaging backstory or just in-ring action

I agree with the post! They shouldn't be hard to promote at all. Aside from the fact that Rigo and Lara don't speak english, I don't feel that there fighting styles are that much different than Mayweather (The richest boxer ever). I'll go out on the limb here and say that Mayweather is the Greatest Salesman of all time in boxing, but he fights very much like a Cuban. Which isn't a bad thing at all btw. He's 44-0 Sweet Science. I majored in marketing in college, and I would sell them the same way Money May sells himself: Boxing's Rubix Cube. 44 have tried to crack the code, 44 have failed. Rigo is like a professor in the ring, Lara may have actually helped his stock by being dropped twice by Angulo, maybe Cotto feels he may be able to the same.

Or it's that they're just harder to promote