Is there going to be an undercard fight? I just pulled up my guide and it has boxing for a two hour block on showtime tonight. Surely that is not for just one fight.
No doubt that Roy Jones thinks that he is getting the winner of this fight. Hell, he has called it a "box off" to face him.
If Tarver wins, I say him and Johnson do it again, then the winner can fight Jones. If Johnson wins he can go ahead and fight Jones later this year.
1 - Felix Trinidad
2 - Antonio Tarver
3 - Zab Judah
4 - Shane Mosely
5 - Antonio Margarito
Honestly though, 2-5 could be in any order. I have five favorites, Tito is #1 and the rest of them are pretty equal.
I am very much looking forward to this fight. I think both guys have trained hard and really want this one. I'll go with Tarver by way of knock out in the 8th round. The second time just seems to be the charm for him.
Maybe it is because I am a white American and there is really not a boxer that fits those guidelines for me to nut hug, but I have noticed the race/country of orgin thing too.
As for me, I just cheer for the guys that I like to watch, Trinidad, Mayweather, Corrales and Lacy are at the very top of that list.
In all honesty, the WWE does not only a better job promoting their PPVs, but they are always full of a lot of matches.
Imagine a boxing card that featured:
Vitali Klitschko vs James Toney
Zab Judah vs Shane Mosely
Floyd Mayweather vs Ricky Hatton
Diego Corrales vs Miguel Cotto
Samuel Peter vs Calvin Brock
Antonio Margarito vs Luis Collazo
That is the equivalent to a WWE PPV card. The problem with most Boxing cards is there is a main event that everyone pays for, and usually two or three other fights that no one cares about. That is not the case for the WWE.
A big difference is that Wrestling (As atrocious as it has become of late) does a good job at promoting it's events. Everyshow it puts on is for the purpose of building to the big payoff on PPV.
It has the platform & ability to display it's most marketable talents on a weekly basis. Things boxing just cannot duplicate.
Plus there is almost a garentee that a wrestling PPV will give you 2 1/2 + hours of what you expect. While allot of time on boxing PPVs are spent killing time.
Add that to the fact it is cheaper. It's not a huge mystery.
Great post and you completely nailed it. I don't really think you can compare the WWE to boxing because boxing does not have the same opprotunities to promote itself that the WWE does.
the fight will be on for free on hbo this sat at 1030-1100 so to all the dumbass people that paid 50 bucks ur dumb! get HBO!
Well I can only speak for myself, but it is always more exciting for me watching a live event where I don't already know the outcome before watching. Also, Floyd is the best boxer in the world, if he fights 3 times a year, all on PPV, that comes out to $150, or $12.50 a month. I don't mind paying $12.50 a month to watch the best boxer in the world every time he fights.
I voted for Brewster because the way I see it, there are only a few realistic options:
1 - Rahman/Barret winner. If Vitali wants to fight in September, I do not think that the winner will have adequete time to prepare for Vitali.
2 - James Toney. I think this would be the biggest possible fight in the heavyweight division. But with Vitali being off for so long and Toney haven recently been suspended, I think both guys should fight someone else before they fight each other.
3 - John Ruiz. Nothing really wrong with this option, I just hate watching Ruiz box.
4 - Chris Byrd. Hasn't fought in forever. Would like to see Toney fight him and get a belt before he fought Vitali.
5 - Lamon Brewster. This one could be fun, two punchers going at it, Vitali would probably win pretty easily (~5 rounds), that way Vitali would have two belts and Toney would have one (assuming he beats Byrd) when they meet up early next year. That would make for a very big fight.
only problem is why should corrales move up whne he doesnt have to
Think of how much money a Corrales-Hatton fight would make and then find me someone at 135 that could match that.
And I'm pretty sure I've heard that the third Corrales-Castillo fight was going to be the last fight for each of them at 135.