Anyone Excited About Premiere of Contender Tonight?

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

Great first show!!! Dident dissapoint, I really liked the fact they already cut the ones that dident make weight and werent ready, Hope alot of people see it because HBO is planning the next one I believe. Heavyweights.

I was surprised that cats went home already.

[SkillspayBills]

Either way my boy Don gonna take the crown, to bad Curtis Stevens didn't join when they asked him to.

[MJ406]

yes the contender runs every week. Tuesdays at 10 pm on ESPN

wow I sound like a commercial

anyway .. good idea for season 3 on 2 parts .. the first being its in the super middleweight division. 168 is a kinda in the dark division .. with no real big names (minus Calzaghe and Kessler of course) .. but 168 .. still its kinda an obscure division and doesn't really get alotta coverage (but its somewhat catching on .. and Contender 3 is a good help)

and secondly of course the talent level .. to have 2 guys who have fought for world titles in Sakio Bika and Sam Soliman add instant credibility

Contender in past has gotten **** for having weak fighters. this season has 2 who have been at the world title level .. self explanatory.

I would favor Soliman or Bika to take it all. (hell those 2 could meet in the first round)

[ForemanCrossArm]

another plus is that it runs for a fairly short time, which means the guys who get knocked out early don't have to waste any of the momentum from the show on downtime waiting for it to run a full 3 months or whatever.

[Ironside]

The one thing that I don't like about the contender is how they make the fights look all cool with sound effects and music stuff like that. For some reason it just seems like the fights are kind of fixed like that to me, but I guess on the other side, it kinda looks cool to the casual person with all that editing.

[mikey100]

The one thing that I don't like about the contender is how they make the fights look all cool with sound effects and music stuff like that. For some reason it just seems like the fights are kind of fixed like that to me, but I guess on the other side, it kinda looks cool to the casual person with all that editing.

You have to do it that way to draw in the casual fan. I know they are offering unedited versions of the fights this year at some point, so guys like us can be satisfied.

[-Hyperion-]

The one thing that I don't like about the contender is how they make the fights look all cool with sound effects and music stuff like that. For some reason it just seems like the fights are kind of fixed like that to me, but I guess on the other side, it kinda looks cool to the casual person with all that editing.

but now you can see the show one day, then the day after you check the full fight in espn2....and everyone is happy

[SkillspayBills]

You have to do it that way to draw in the casual fan. I know they are offering unedited versions of the fights this year at some point, so guys like us can be satisfied.

Exactly, now they are pleasing the casual and the hardcore fan.

[Fox McCloud]

I also like that they brought in Buddy McGirt, and I'm sure I'd be impressed with the other guy, but it sounds like he has been out of the game for a while.

[WLAD OWNS]

Who the **** fought ?