Who does the market research for Nike on this ****... A very quick sampling of this forum (the demographic who would buy these shoes) indicates that these ****in shoes are too bright and god awful ugly....
I'd rock me some Pacquiao kicks, but they'd have to be tamer than those whack colors..
Maybe Nike had some leftover ugly fabric and figured the true sycophant Pactards would buy anything with Mannys name on it
kind of a silly thing to argue about. Both guys stole victory from the jaws of defeat, and both fights were edge of your seat affairs. If you had a rooting interest in either fight then it would be hard to objectively say which was a bigger comeback.... One thing that can't be argued is that if boxing had more fights like this and less Adrian Broner type affairs, boxing would be mainstream again in no time.
this guy...
http://enelshow.com/blackbox/imagecache/portada_principal_horizontal/film-jeremy-rennermar3.jpg
co-sign - Renner would be ideal and could still pull off a younger Gatti.... Leguizamo is past it and name an Oscar worthy movie with John Leguizamo? He already played a boxer and it was fail.
i hate dumbass over privledges people like you..the point is anyone with enough dedication can turn their life around in a positive way.....
LarryX, I'm not over privileged and I'm certainly not ignorant enough to not comprehend the point of the clip...
I'm just disgusted by the messenger, in this case HBO, who never rewards guys like in the video, but instead guys like Mayweather and Berto, who have signed pacts with music promotion mogul and friend of Kerry Davis, Al Haymon.
I'd welcome a guy like this in the video - notice he had no entourage, hanger-ons, and ass-kissers?
The Point?
In the Ross Greenburg era, any bum can fight on HBO.
Where's the video where the homeless guy meets Al Haymon at the crossroads, signs a deal with the devil, then gets fed tomato cans on HBO?
^ I think part of it is that Floyd had to lie down after the session
Spadafora was throwing at angles that caused Floyd problems though.
I'm not going to be one of these fools who sits there and says Spadafora would give Floyd a drubbing, but what you just said about the angles, its the reason why til this day the fight at least makes some type of sense.
It would be great to see Floyd in there with a guy who's Ring IQ would be on par with, if not better than his - He had trouble figuring Spadafora out then, likely still would now.
Floyd wins, but it wouldn't be a one sided beatdown as most suggest and I'd bet it would be his stiffest test in a while
Agreed...
And honestly if i were Bute i would fight Froch too, its a good purse and i think he has the style to beat him.
Ward its too good and he knows it, and also he doesnt bring that much money than Froch, he wont have anyone to fight anyways and a fight with bute in the future will cost more.
Honestly i dont see anybody beating Ward for a while.
Yup... and in the end it will be Bute-Froch in front of 20K @ the Bell Centre..... Evenly matched fight in which I think Bute wins.
and meanwhile, in Las Vegas sometime in the spring, Super Six Cup Winning, Unified, Fighter of the Year and Ring Champ Andre Ward will fight a stay busy fight in front of 885 paying customers in an otherwise completely papered house.
boxing economics 101
Folks...watch the Eddie Hearn video in the video section- this will clear alot of things up. He says he spoke to Bute's people the afternoon of the fight on Saturday and they came to a deal in principle for the 2 fight deal.
Also, to clarify Ward's position, he says clearly in the one on one video interview that he wasn't passing a fight up with Bute, and if it was the best deal then its the fight he wanted.
The strange reality of this whole thing is that in the end, it will be Bute who will hold all of the cards, and decide which opponent he wants - because both Ward and Froch will need a dancing partner and Bute will be the biggest $$$ fight out there.
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lol
promotors know Everything
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there's usually a nice spread of food at big fights but otherwise promotors do not pay the people sitting at press row
as i said before, very few people in the media section make any money at all. they pay their way to the event.
all they get is a media credential, which gives them the right to whatever original content they produce (your story, pictures, etc,) and a seat in the media section.
it's not always been this way, but the guys who make money are photographers and obviously the top writers. if you write a book and it sells you are making money
This guy and Eaner are the only folks in this thread who have it right. On fight night only a very select few will turn a profit.... So tomorrow night in Atlantic City, where there will be 10 or more rows of ringside press, a few hundred issued credentials, my guess is that less than 20-30 folks will profit or break even for their work produced for that fight.
Most will spend $150 or more for a hotel room, some for 2 nights...some will fly there on their dime... some will pack into a casino hotel room 6 deep with other media colleagues to defray costs. Some will burn vacation days from their 9-5 to be there - after a year of fights, they might not take a real vacation, just a bunch of fight weekends to show for their year.
Most will make as little as $25 for their fight report... some will make zero. Some do it simply for the privilege of being at the big fight for free, with a bird's eye view to all of the action.
It's commendable and dedicated, but at the same time sickening to think as you look across press row how very few are making money - while the top fighters and promoters make millions.