Cotto/Martinez underperforms, does 350,000 buys

$735 a month is what I pay. Damn man, thats crazy My homie went to culinary school for 2 years and said he could've bought a brand new Benz with what they charged him in loans

As per Dan Rafael http://m.espn.go.com/extra/boxing/story?storyId=11126080&src=desktop&rand=ref~%7B%22ref%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FskaZ4jYghT%22%7D Tomorrow his stans would still claim he's the third biggest draw and continue to ignore Wlad.

Yeah...who gives a **** about numbers. 350k buys is still alot in my opinion. MMA would be lucky if they could hit those numbers. At the end of the day, who really cares! Im not getting a cut!

$735 a month is what I pay. So f*cked up! Man, I feel for you. That monthly payment is stupid high. Like a goddamn mortgage.

Oh, well I researched which jobs were most in demand before I chose my major so I never had that problem. Keep trying man. It's hard to believe that if you applied to enough places you wouldn't get at least one interview. There are so many cases where people can't even get one interview. I can get a job selling insurance, those clowns call me all the time about jobs. Engineering is a tough business. They pay unemployed guys with years of experience 20% below their worth because they know that they can. These guys top out at their companies and then get canned when the company hires a recent grad to do their job for less than half of what they were paying that guy. Really sad man. And you know, I didn't even know engineering was a tough business. I thought engineering was one of the fields that was doing better than others. Partly because even to graduate with the degree, it's not easy. So hearing what you just said about that field is crazy. So seems like they are cutting costs trying to find as much cheap labor as possible. :nonono:

Be grateful you dont live in the philippines. What americans consider bad is nothing in comparison to what we go through. Over there, we don't make excuses, we just work hard. It's not about comparing countries though. The whole point is that, economically, things aren't that good. And this ends up reflecting on businesses which includes professional boxing. It's a domino effect. And as Mathed said, there's a supply and demand thing. Your job may be cool now, but the minute the demand in your field lowers and supply starts to get out of control, you better hope you still have your job. Because getting another one won't be easy under those circumstances.

Damn thats really bad, I dabble with Forex so I'll use this info when I look at charts later And to the other dude, just because you have a degree doesn't mean your guaranteed a job. Alot of my friends have college degrees and aren't even working in that field or even have a job Those student loans ain't no joke doe $735 a month is what I pay.

Be grateful you dont live in the philippines. What americans consider bad is nothing in comparison to what we go through. Over there, we don't make excuses, we just work hard. I hear ya. I just keep grinding away...I have done my research as well to see what these companies are considering important and I'm back in school....AGAIN taking classes. I'm taking 3D CAD now and practicing SolidWorks in my spare time. Next semester, I'm taking Inventor (3D parametric modeling) and taking my EIT exam. Immediately after that, I'm getting a reference letter from my friend at work who is a P.E. and starting to study for my P.E. license. A degree used to mean something, now, it's just a prerequisite I suppose. I'm just going to make it impossible for people to look the other way.

Gross domestic product -- the broadest measure of economic growth -- contracted at a 2.9% annual rate in January through March. That's the weakest quarter for the U.S. economy since the first quarter of 2009, amid the Great Recession. That's negative (-2.9%). Really bad! Damn thats really bad, I dabble with Forex so I'll use this info when I look at charts later And to the other dude, just because you have a degree doesn't mean your guaranteed a job. Alot of my friends have college degrees and aren't even working in that field or even have a job Those student loans ain't no joke doe

Oh, well I researched which jobs were most in demand before I chose my major so I never had that problem. Keep trying man. It's hard to believe that if you applied to enough places you wouldn't get at least one interview. I can get a job selling insurance, those clowns call me all the time about jobs. Engineering is a tough business. They pay unemployed guys with years of experience 20% below their worth because they know that they can. These guys top out at their companies and then get canned when the company hires a recent grad to do their job for less than half of what they were paying that guy.

If you study hard, You pass. If you dedicate yourself to the material, you will possess knowledge. If you possess knowledge, people will pay you for it. After you get your degree in the field that you researched, you start applying and demonstrating your proficiency in your field and you get a job. Then you pay the loans off. If People are amassing debt because they can't get a job, it's not the system's fault, it's theirs. Tell that to my parents who could not afford to put me through college. I know more than my bosses do....I deal with federal contracts and bring in about a million a year; I just brought in 30K yesterday from a contract. That's the only reason my company kept me while they drastically downsized. Things aren't clear-cut like you seem to think they are man. Theoretically, you may be correct but there is a thing called supply and demand. There is a massive supply of qualified people looking for work and the demand for the employers is not that great. They are taking applications for position for up to a year before conducting interviews and by that time, you have 300 people looking at 1 job. You have to know someone to get a technical job. Most are over-qualified for laymen work and lost in the shuffle for jobs they are qualified for. The economy was crap when I graduated in 2009 and it hasn't gotten any better.

barring the financial market meltdown, things were never really that bad. America is still the land of opportunity, it's still the land where cash flows like milk and honey. There's still welfare, there's still financial aid, there's still college and there are still jobs available. There is a path for everybody in this country, no matter where they came from to achieve success. That's why this is the greatest country in the world. I have 3 degrees and apply for jobs every night....I can't get an interview to save my life right now. There are too many applicants for each position....the economy sucks diznik.

barring the financial market meltdown, things were never really that bad. America is still the land of opportunity, it's still the land where dollars flow like grass and is ripe for the picking for anyone hungry and creative enough to get a piece. There's still welfare, there's still financial aid, there's still college and there are still jobs available. There is a path for everybody in this country, no matter where they came from to achieve success. That's why this is the greatest country in the world. Yes, and every empire has crumbled. Nothing lasts forever. Food stamps -- the number of people on it is at an all-time high. College? There's a huge student loan problem where many are defaulting. The loans are at like a trillion. It's real bad. There's jobs available depending on what you do and where you live. There's a reason why business went down overall all across the board this year first quarter. Things like that trickles down to affect boxing and other forms of entertainment. It's not like the world is going to end or some sh*t. It's just that things aren't that pretty.

That's not an excuse. Anybody who could afford a ppv fight back then, can afford it now if they want to. Pac and Floyd were selling millions in the recession and things are much better now. They aren't much better. Things are actually worse. Also the difference back then was that Pac and Floyd were the 2 major PPVs. It's not like this year where there's so many. Floyd wasn't even fighting 2 times per year back then. He fought only once. And a lot of fans knew that, so his numbers performed even better because he only fought once and not again til the following year.

Good luck getting Tim to jump up to 154 now, lol...sorry Arum.

Anything really big? Today my newsfeed was all about Google IO press conference Gross domestic product -- the broadest measure of economic growth -- contracted at a 2.9% annual rate in January through March. That's the weakest quarter for the U.S. economy since the first quarter of 2009, amid the Great Recession. That's negative (-2.9%). Really bad!

It's true. Boxing has WAAAAY too many PPV these days with fights that aren't even PPV worthy. There have been very few boxing PPVs in the last 5+ years, back in the day around 2006 they would put on 10+ PPVs a year before they started to bomb. So really this is the first time in years that there are so many of them, and 300k would be good in general but it's just that many expected this one to do better.

It's the cost factor. Too many PPV's and the economy isn't exactly great. Do you know what got reported today economically? Today's economic numbers was a disaster in America. Anything really big? Today my newsfeed was all about Google IO press conference

It's the cost factor. Too many PPV's and the economy isn't exactly great. Do you know what got reported today economically? Today's economic numbers was a disaster in America. Exactly we could end up with 8 or 9 ppv fights this year

Only Pac and Floyd can break 500k The decline in boxing has led from them not fighting. People got tired of the best not fighting the best. If they had met in the ring the amount of hype it would have generated would have been phenomenal. Boxing would have been back on the front pages. ****ing assholes. It's the cost factor. Too many PPV's and the economy isn't exactly great. Do you know what got reported today economically? Today's economic numbers was a disaster in America.