Official: HBO- Francisco Vargas vs Orlando Salido RBR Thread

^This x1000 Can't believe Salido's purse was a measly 50 grand :nonono: and how much of that did he actually take home? Smh.. Ya know what's really, really ****ed up though? Salido, a 20 year champion veteran of 60 fights, with a huge number of great FOTY wars, gets only 50K for one of the best fights ever seen, while a young newbie prospect with only about 6 fights gets close to a million dollars for fighting a guy that Salido should have beaten twice in a row, only for judges to rob him. Worst part of it all, Salido also beat that young newbie with only 4 fights. 50K for a 20 year, 60 fight veteran champion in a legendary FOTY title. 850K for a 6 fight prospect in a fight in which both fighters had lost to Salido in previous recent fights (even if one was given a gift decision). :thinking:

Damn!!1 Whats wrong with these guys! It was echoing in my head "BRAIN DAMAGE! BRAIN DAMAGE!" It was a war so beautiul :D

Once again great fight and tribute to "Siri" as he was greeted in the ring after the fight by Takashi Miura! Salido met with Lomachenko Saturday in the dressing room before he and Vargas fought! Vargas and Salido set a super-featherweight record for punches thrown in a fight and previously said he planned to trek to New York to watch Lomachenko’s fight and propose a rematch. But Salido’s manager, Sean Gibbons, said after the gripping outcome of the Vargas bout that Salido’s primary interest is in a rematch with Vargas. A camera closeup during the fight shows Lomachenko giving the fighters a standing ovation! If that's not a compliment I don't know what is!

You know my only problem with this is that Salido has now very arguably won three title fights in a row without getting a single decision win in any of the three. The guy is literally the epitome of a modern day boxing warrior and yet he's only getting a pittance for these ****ing legendary fights he's putting on back to back to back. Give the man his dues you slimey cunt faced greedy ass rat bastard promoters! Give him a 5 million payday! Can you believe that Floyd and Pac probably got 100,000,000 between them for their pathetic excuse of a fight, while Saldio got a measly 50K for this war? Floyd and Pac, give that man some of your purses you damn crooks and Vargas too! I'd love to see a rematch, but I love Salido for everything he stands for, and it would be hard to watch him go through another epic war only to come out on the wrong end of a decision again. Can you imagine him getting screwed four title fights in a row? That'd have to be a record! He's clearly a two division, five X champion or something now and yet he's been given the decision only when he takes it out of the judges hands. I hope he enjoys his retirement and lives a damn great life. Pray to the boxing gods that it's so people.

I know some people joked about Lampley getting teary eyed earlier today but I thought the way they signed off with it was pretty powerful Agreed. Amazing fight, great special on Ali and a well-said sendoff from the crew.

Electronic Dance Music http://r27.imgfast.net/users/2717/11/78/44/smiles/2839687864.gif really!? :haha:

THIS is the type of fight you immediately show to a casual to get them into the sport. SHEEEESHH

The Ali send off was First Class! http://everydaypowerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-7.34.38-AM.gif OMG! What a great fight! The perfect send off to the Great Ali! My heart was and is with Salido but it's fair that the champ keeps his belt! Over 2000 punches thrown! Fight fans that is Mexican style! :boxing: And they say boxing is dead? Absolutely amazing fight and I walked away a bigger fan of both men. Scary part is, we'll probably get another war like this next weekend with Provodnikov vs. Molina. We just gotta hope that Molina doesn't get gun shy like he did with Broner. Is there any chance that Vargas and Salido laided the ground work for boxings newest trilogy? I hope so. That was one of the best fights I've seen in a long time, that being said Salido ended up looking like Marvin Hagler by the end. My question is this I'm new here! Why does there have to be over 15 threads on Vargas vs Salido?

That was one of the best fights I've seen in a long time, that being said Salido ended up looking like Marvin Hagler by the end.

And they say boxing is dead? Absolutely amazing fight and I walked away a bigger fan of both men. Scary part is, we'll probably get another war like this next weekend with Provodnikov vs. Molina. We just gotta hope that Molina doesn't get gun shy like he did with Broner. Is there any chance that Vargas and Salido laided the ground work for boxings newest trilogy? I hope so.

this fight took me back to the 80s, boza_edwards-chacon-limon, Olivares-Arguello, those kind of fights...

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GIFS: Vargas vs. Salido http://i.imgur.com/zpSi4ZN.gif http://i.imgur.com/VQQ3o1M.gif http://i.imgur.com/u0ElfuR.gif http://i.imgur.com/GZCb5ji.gif Ahí les va pariente! Saludos para toda la Raza.

For once, the posters here agree with the score cards... Maybe because the trolls were missing on this thread... (I thought they will give it to vargas; but the draw is closer to the truth.)

The Ali send off was First Class! http://everydaypowerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-29-at-7.34.38-AM.gif OMG! What a great fight! The perfect send off to the Great Ali! My heart was and is with Salido but it's fair that the champ keeps his belt! Over 2000 punches thrown! Fight fans that is Mexican style! :boxing:

I know some people joked about Lampley getting teary eyed earlier today but I thought the way they signed off with it was pretty powerful Their documentary they had with Liev Schreiber was amazing. The best doc I've seen on Ali out of any these networks that been running today. Well done HBO

HBO still the best production...great Ali sendoff

Puta Madre!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't wait to download this one. Vargas/Miura was the best fight from last year for me.

I know some people joked about Lampley getting teary eyed earlier today but I thought the way they signed off with it was pretty powerful