hat video is B*******. How about someone makes a video showing all the 18.124 times Dirells jab fell short, the 567 times he initiated a clinch and the 9 rounds he only threw 3 punches per round.
By the way, Danish television was neutral and had Froch winning by 4. So STFU!
I think the article got it wrong. I read somewhere that RTL pays K2 that much PER YEAR, not per fight. They also have a lot of expenses setting up the fights, renting the stadiums, paying sparring partners, undercard fighters etc.
So net they probably make much less. Hattons money was purses alone.
True, Kessler was a big name in DK even before he turned pro. His amateur fights were being aired on primetime TV at times. And he was touted as the biggest Danish boxing talent ever. He would have been huge if he had fought under any promoteer. At least other promoters would have waited till he had fought in the olympics (to give more exposure), had given him big fights sooner (what is the point of giving the guy a 9-4-3 fighter in his 27'th pro fight?) and not screwed around with Showtime like the Miranda farce, or wasted his time trying to get him fights with Mads Larsen, and secured him some real exposure outside DK, which Palle never could.
I actually saw the fights a few times now and I don't think it is all that close.
Froch only has one round in which he was clearly the winner plus a few close ones.
Two Danish TV channels had the fight 119-109 and 119-111 respectively,
while British tv had it 115-113 and 115-114 so in between those extremes, the scorecards (117-111 115-113 116-112) were reasonable.
Showtimes commentators were awful. Whenever someone beats a few americans they try to make him look like god, because they can't process the idea that a european would do better against Froch than Taylor or Dirrell (which he did).
Kessler's being pathetic. He keeps claiming he wants to fight the best but he keeps fighting nobodies. He could fight Bute, Froch or Taylor if he wanted, but instead he calls out people he knows have no reason to fight him, and who aren't even at his own weight, like calling out Hopkins or Dawson to fight him at catch-weight, presumably so his more gullible fans will believe he wants big fights, when he doesn't - yet there are plenty of big fights that are genuinely on the table for him at Super-Middleweight and he's not interested in any of them. He's only interested in fighting nobodies. He's a good illustration of what's wrong with boxing - I've lost a lot of respect for him lately.
STFU! He's been trying to get a fight with Taylor for ages now, and Froch as well, this fight is only happening as part of a deal to get out from his promoter who screwed him with fine print in one of his contracts. Haussler was a mandatory, and he only fought Sartison because Mundine (then #2 in Ring ratings) ducked him (didn't want another beating...).
Why don't you criticise Taylor who ducks Froch twice even though he's the mandatory challenger?
Good lord
No wonder this guy had Froch winning - He clearly had Froch and Kesslers names mixed up in the first round. Froch doesn't land sh** and Kessler lands a lot of good jabs. Clearly a typo because all Froch's jabs but one fall short.
Don't blame Kessler - he is trying to get away from his promoter bc of this fight, they even sued the WBA for making Haussler #1 challenger.
Taylor is ducking him even thoug the HBO wants to show Kessler-Taylor. And now Taylor wants to fight Johnson. Everyone mentions Ward and Dirrell.
Ward?????? Dirrell??????
What kind of moron would send such inexperienced fighters against Kessler?
Suicidal.