Hard core fans might not want to admit this, but the biggest draws in combat sports STILL are:
1. Tyson
2. Mayweather
3. McNuggets
4. Jake Paul
5. Canelo
6. Pacquiao
Big drop-off after that, and then probably 7. Tank 8. Ryan Garcia. He's already got fights scheduled with Tyson and Pacquiao. If he wanted to maximize revenue (not saying anything about the merits of the fights themselves) he should fight McNuggets, Jake Paul, and Canelo afterwards.
Dud "B-side" Crawford isn't even in the same universe when it comes to being a box office draw as these guys. Raskin is delusional.
Pathetic how Khan the sellout whore trying to make Saudi Arabia sound like some concert at Coachella and not the corrupt human rights dumpster fire it actually is. A county that just let women drive, likes to murder and bonesaw journalists, and caused all the bloodshed and suffering in Yemen.
Maybe Khan can help his fellow glass-jawed british fraud AJ get a cashout payday there too.
He'll need another 18 months off to recover, go on a spiritual pilgrimage to India, and then 3 tuneups before the huge Spence showdown in 2024.
Jokes aside, it was a gutsy performance by Thurman. I give him credit for digging down and rallying in the mid rounds, lasting the distance and not getting stopped, and not running.
What an absolutely sublime performance by Manny, the new Alien. Bernard Hopkins would be proud. His best options now are to target the Garcia vs. Garcia winner or Lomo. This version of Manny is definitely capable of outboxing or stopping Lomo.
Who knows, maybe someday Lomo gets tired of fighting bums on espn+ for peanuts, watched by an audience of dozens. If he wants to make some real dough and finally live up to all the hype, he'll step up to the challenge and face Manny at 147 on Fox PPV. Rigo moved up 2 weight classes for him, and Manny is the clear A side so Lomo ain't dictating shiet. Let him come up to Manny's weight if he wants to get paid.
After Kovalev and Fedor both got KTFO, eastern euros can't afford another L. So yes, Lomo will either outright blantantly duck or demand Rigo fight him at 140.
Crawford has the mentality that if he faces an opponent who was the A side and the paper is at their hometown whether or not it is, he would definitely go to that fighter hometown no problem!
Ward on the other hand, just imagine if AJ, Pacquiao or Floyd was his size in his division....do you really think Ward would move from LA/Cali or nah?
So you're giving Crawford credit for a perceived "mentality" when in actuality they've both done the same things, have mulitiple fights in their hometowns?
Ward moved up to 175 and fought prime Kovalev twice in neutral territory Vegas, a guy who was consenus top 5 P4P and better than AJ. Don't think he would have any fears of a Floyd or Pac even if they were same size.
Crawford fighting in Nebraska is a huge event that captivates everyone there.
Ward can get a decent crowd in Oakland and maybe get a Golden State Warrior to show up which is cool, but it's nothing special. Crawford fighting in Nebraska is special. If you can't see the difference I don't know what to tell you.
I have no issues with Crawford fighting in Nebraska. The point I'm making is the hypocrisy when Ward gets blasted for home field advantage of fighting in Oakland and some were even whining about the Abraham fight being in LA and Kovalev in Vegas when the same people don't say chit about home field advantage when Crawford fights in Nebraska.
It's special because the only thing else they got is cornfields and college football there, a lot more entertainment choices in the Bay. At least Ward got not just any Warrior, but back-to-back MVP Steph Curry to walk out with him.
From reading the headline I just knew white people would get their panties up in a bunch about this even though he didn't say a damn thing about race :pat:
So if someone said they like beating Africans up or let's take it down a notch, Jamaicans or Nigerians you don't think blacks would be crying racism?
So in your mind British = white people??
That is the textbook definition of racism.
I don't know if he's a racist, but I do know he's a bloviating, attention-starved douchebag.
During Gamboa/Castellanos he went out of his way to be confrontational and belittling towards B-Hops, a guy who's actually laced up the gloves as a pro and accomplished more in the ring than Teddy has his entire life.
Atlas makes the espn shows unlistenable, wish they would bring back classy guys like Al Bernstein and Barry Tompkins who don't make the fights all about themselves. Hell, even Sean O'Grady was way better than him!
Dumbest post in the whole thread. I'm guessing your red re is well deserved. Here, have some more, phaggot.
Glad I was able to get your panties up in a bunch enough for you to show your homophobic side and thanks for the fake internet points :bottle:
Mcgregor name alone would be enough to sell the fight, that's the key.. And a fight with manny could make sense, due to the fact there a ppl dumb enough to think Connor was competing with Floyd. But I think he gets destroyed by either manny or canelo. The guys I listed he might have a chance at winning a fight while still making good money. But I don't think he will beat Paulie, it's just a lot more competitive than manny or canelo.
I think he would go life and death with Paulie and could well take another L. You're right he would get destroyed by Manny or Canelo but if he's gonna lose again anyways, let me go out on his shield via brutual knockout and cash out for real against the biggest draws.
Not that the Fat One and Steve Kimmy are both shilling hard for espn, I wonder if they've kissed and made up and gotten over their various online hissy fits over the years?
Kudos to Spence and Garcia. Wow, more than double lil g's first ppv and SEVEN TIMES Crawford's first PPV. Spence well on his way to becoming one of the biggest draws in boxing, if not already the #3 biggest draw.
Errol "The Truth" Spence Jr clearly the A-side vs. Terence "50k ppv" Crawfish, just like Mikey Garcia now clearly the A-side vs. Vasiliy "never headlined a ppv-worthy fight" Lomo.
After Spence disposes of Porter, Crawford, Thurman (if Runtime ever sacks up), Spence vs. Canelo at Cowboys Stadium will be absolutely BANANAS :boxing:
So no Wilder, no Fury, Whyte rejecting Hearns lowball offer, Fat Baby going in a different direction according to kim, too scared to ever fight Ortiz..........sounds like genius Hearn and Joshua outsmarted themselves and are up shiet creek.
For a guy supposed to be some huge, mega-attraction, money train every heavyweight should want to face, funny how all the top guys are telling Hearns: Naw, kick rocks.
Your leap is illogical.
I'm saying that it's silly to assume that Manny walks through McGregor just because it's Manny. McGregor is WAY huge compared to Manny, first of all. Incredible reach, longer reach than Floyd, who had longer reach than Manny.
And it's fact that Manny doesn't like getting jabbed to death. He gets frustrated and makes mistakes.
See above.
You both are leaping too high. I never said Conor beats Manny. I said that Manny has a tough time against people who jab the hell out of him. That's fact though.
The size difference isn't nothing, but Margarito is bigger than McNuggets not to mention a way better boxer and we all know how that fight went.
Just imagine what a young James Toney would do to these guys.
But the thing is, Golovkin's experience level is pretty much at its peak.
Canelo is still learning and will continue to develop over the next five years.
Prime RJJ, B-Hops, or Toney at 160 would all wipe the floor with either guy who fought tonight.
They both have good chins, but it's a combination of that and #1 Canelo moving up in weight and never having huge power to begin with and #2 Golovkin's power being overrated.
It would be a replay of Hopkins at 36 vs. Tito, another slow plodder with overrated punching power. B-Hops would completely neutralize lil g's vaunted "power", methodically break him down, and destroy him.
lil g's defense looked like crap, zero head movement and kept getting tagged by flush counterpunches.
He looked like a slow plodder who couldn't stop or really even hurt a blown up jr. middleweight who had 1 prior fight above 155 lbs and that was against the corpse of Chavez Jr.
His conditioning was bad too, started sucking wind in the early rounds.
its an excuse to bring up how ward cheats nonstop in his fights? this is why ward fans have no crebility. they see any criticism against him as an attack whether or not it has merit. wards cheating obviously has merit but you ignore it simply because you don't like the people saying it? you would be a flat earther if ward said the earth was flat just because non ward fans say otherwise.
No, it's just a lame way to discredit his wins. Some of the excuses I listed were about Ward's supposed "cheating" but others were just plain ridiculous like whining about fights being held in LA and Las Vegas?
If Ward was such a feather fisted bum and Froch and Kovavlev was such killers, they couldn't have neutralized his "cheating" or fought fire with fire?? John Ruiz was the biggest cheater ever, so by the same logic he should have also retired undeafeated.
Kovalev went 20 rounds with Ward and he couldn't do chit. Why didn't the Krusher knock Ward out so he couldn't be "robbed" by the judges or gotten so unfairly wrecked to the body?