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By Cliff Rold - Faster than a Francisco Lorenzo flop, 2008 has arrived at its halfway point and it’s tough to tell where the sport is headed in the second half. The pay-per-view calendar is filling up with a whole lot of whatever by way of an old-timers tour featuring Joe Calzaghe-Roy Jones and Shane Mosley-Ricardo Mayorga.
Strange as it might seem, that could be good news.
While the graying go looking for the paying, it will free up capital at the premium cable networks to make fights that promise equations of name and fistic value that more favorably shine on the latter.
The first half of the year saw a solid mix of both. Calzaghe-Bernard Hopkins and Oscar De La Hoya-Steve Forbes somehow wound up of regular HBO while Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez II and Kelly Pavlik-Jermain Taylor II went the pay route. In almost every head to head match-up, Showtime out-programmed HBO with fights like Arthur Abraham-Edison Miranda II and April’s stellar Light Heavyweight doubleheader. Oh, and unopposed they provided one other fight that we’ll get back to. [details]
Strange as it might seem, that could be good news.
While the graying go looking for the paying, it will free up capital at the premium cable networks to make fights that promise equations of name and fistic value that more favorably shine on the latter.
The first half of the year saw a solid mix of both. Calzaghe-Bernard Hopkins and Oscar De La Hoya-Steve Forbes somehow wound up of regular HBO while Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez II and Kelly Pavlik-Jermain Taylor II went the pay route. In almost every head to head match-up, Showtime out-programmed HBO with fights like Arthur Abraham-Edison Miranda II and April’s stellar Light Heavyweight doubleheader. Oh, and unopposed they provided one other fight that we’ll get back to. [details]
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