This exactly. It's the nature of being a hardcore fan. For example, I don't like the Mayweather-Khan fight. But you know what? I'll order the damn thing. We'll piss and moan about corruption, bad match ups, sanctioning bodies and what have you, but we know there's nothing like a fight so we watch them all. Once the fights get here, we forget about all of the nonsense.
Exactly. When it comes down to it I like to watch fights....I take what I'm given I guess, but I will complain when it's crap. The casual fans drive it more than hardcore...I'll take what I'm given and watch most fights and ppvs...though the smaller HC fanbase isn't whats going to decide if they succeed like I said. Al Haymon is such an enigma it's insane...he has power, how much who knows, but he has a bit it seems. I don't really know anyone who can tell you what he does or what strings he can pull....just that he can.
The fans.
If we stopped watching boxing the whole sport would die.
The fans? Bullsh*t! They're always b*tching about sh*t then turn around and pay for it. And then b*tch some more. If the fans had some balls and stood up for themselves then they would control the sport.
Example: Half of the people b*tching about Mayweather vs Khan will end up buying it.
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The problem is, and I am guilty of it, the hardcore fans just want to watch boxing. We will ***** over the match ups and promotion, but once its fight time, its hard to not watch/order, especially if at least 1 good fighter is on.
This exactly. It's the nature of being a hardcore fan. For example, I don't like the Mayweather-Khan fight. But you know what? I'll order the damn thing. We'll piss and moan about corruption, bad match ups, sanctioning bodies and what have you, but we know there's nothing like a fight so we watch them all. Once the fights get here, we forget about all of the nonsense.
The fans.
If we stopped watching boxing the whole sport would die.
The problem is, and I am guilty of it, the hardcore fans just want to watch boxing. We will ***** over the match ups and promotion, but once its fight time, its hard to not watch/order, especially if at least 1 good fighter is on.
"I would like to thank my Promoter, Al Haymon" "I gotta go and talk with my team about the next fight, but you know I'm a fighter and my job is to fight"
if you're talking about one man, it's harder to find a more powerful person in boxing than al haymon. especially in the advent of manny's decline, haymon gets my vote over arum.
schaeffer is a powerful guy, but he doesn't own GBP. oscar still held the majority of the shares, last i checked.
haymon's influence on boxing is hard to quantify. we don't even know any of the particulars. all we know is that big time fighters like floyd mayweather and danny garcia thank al haymon and god. in that order.