HBO PPV just lost a prospective buyer...

**Left Hook Tua** · 07-09-2008, 03:32 AM

Originally posted by DWiens421

Next time, when you have a badass fight like Cotto vs. Margarito... try to put at least one fight on the undercard that I would be able to act like I'm enjoying.

What the **** is this **** on the undercard anyway?

remember when people were complaining about the pacquiao-diaz undercard?

this undercard is god awful.........

**THe TRiNiTY** · 07-09-2008, 03:36 AM

Good names don't make good fights. Good fights make themselves.

**Fox McCloud** · 07-09-2008, 03:36 AM

Originally posted by Left Hook Tua

remember when people were complaining about the pacquiao-diaz undercard?

this undercard is god awful.........

I just refuse to make my third PPV another one with no good memories of undercard fights.

I have ordered Mayweather vs. DLH and Mayweather vs. Hatton up to this point, so... my undercard fights I have seen live have been:

Rocky Juarez vs. Jose Andres Hernandez (boring as ****)
Rey Bautista vs. Sergio Manuel Medina (not terrible, but... skill? Not much in that ring)
Edner Cherry vs. Wes Ferguson II (No one could land a clean punch until the end)
Daniel Ponce de Leon vs. Eduardo Escobedo (Classic case of the aggressor vs. the survivor... generally makes for a boring bout)
Jeff Lacy vs. Peter Manfredo Jr. (Lacy didn't show up for the bout at all... and then Manfredo shelled up when he got hit once)

Terrible, terrible, terrible.

I refuse to let this happen to me again. I guess I'll have to wait for the next big fight to hope to change my luck on undercard fights, because this one just isn't going to do it.

**Fox McCloud** · 07-09-2008, 03:38 AM

Originally posted by C-Drone

Good names don't make good fights. Good fights make themselves.

Good names make fights that are significant to the sport, which I am actually more interested in than a really great fight between two guys who will never win a title.

I can live with Mora vs. Forrest (even though it was pretty boring), because it was for a 154 title and was pretty damn important to the division, but... people I've never heard of just don't do it for me.

**Burner** · 07-09-2008, 03:39 AM

Originally posted by C-Drone

Good names don't make good fights. Good fights make themselves.

You can find that in a boxing gym for free..

When you spend 49.95 on a PPV you want NAMES.

**THe TRiNiTY** · 07-09-2008, 03:40 AM

Originally posted by Burner

You can find that in a boxing gym for free..

When you spend 49.95 on a PPV you want NAMES.

Speak for yourself. I want to be entertained, period. If that means to subpar names in a brutal war, over two sparkling names that stink up the joint, so be it.

**THe TRiNiTY** · 07-09-2008, 03:41 AM

Originally posted by DWiens421

Good names make fights that are significant to the sport, which I am actually more interested in than a really great fight between two guys who will never win a title.

I can live with Mora vs. Forrest (even though it was pretty boring), because it was for a 154 title and was pretty damn important to the division, but... people I've never heard of just don't do it for me.

To each his own. But I pay for the entertainment. Not the entertainers.

**TheManchine** · 07-09-2008, 03:41 AM

thank god for sopcast

Ray* · 07-09-2008, 03:41 AM

The reason HBO dont do good undercards with big name fighter is because they have to pay the Main headliners alot of money, There is NO money left over for a decent undercard so they just put a ****ty line up on.

Cotto/Margarito isnt going to make HBO a lot of money(Oscar or Mayweatherwise) so i wouldnt expect the undercard to be any good.

HBO PPV just lost a prospective buyer...