Warriors boxing wins purse bid for Briggs vs Ibragimov

[ejk22]

Warriors wins Briggs-Ibragimov!

Monday, November 27 2006

Warriors Boxing Promotions along with partners Golden Boy Promotions and Golden Grain Promotions/Sampson Lewkowicz won today's WBO purse bid for the right to stage the fight between WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs and mandatory challenger Sultan Ibragimov. The winning bid was $2,501,000, which outdistanced runnerup Don King Productions at $1,501,000.


No Don King? That is a good thing. Hopefully this fight gets made soon.

[enadeus]

Talk about overpayed, a whole million.

[!!Captain]

This better not be one of those PPVs.

[potatoes]

After that last boring performance by Briggs, I wonder how the promoter expects to turn a profit?

[Hitman932]

After that last boring performance by Briggs, I wonder how the promoter expects to turn a profit?

if i remember correctly they outbid king by like double for the right to stage igbraminov/ austin..... and that was a crap fight, so who knows what theyre doing here.... trying desperately yo get their money back.... or intentionally double their losses for tax write off purposes?

[Nautilus]

That will be a great fight. I will watch it whether it is on PPV or not.

[ferocity]

He got to get briggs to work at his pace not the one punch at a time briggs did in his last fight, make briggs work and im sure he get winded, has happened in the past.

[Animal Squabbs]

That will be a great fight. I will watch it whether it is on PPV or not.

are you serious?? I LOVE boxing and I am a Briggs fan, but I wouldnt order this.

[Hitman932]

are you serious?? I LOVE boxing and I am a Briggs fan, but I wouldnt order this.

yeah it doesent make much sense that klitschkos fight are all free and you have to pay for everyone elses.

[kayjay]

If it's not PPV this will be well worth watching. I expect Briggs to beat Ibragimov if the latter looks anything like the guy who faced Austin. This fight has to end in a KO.