Danilo Haussler Says "Mikkel Kessler is Beatable"

[jangeorg]

It's clear that Kessler is going to milk his 'world title' in Denmark for easy money rather than go for the best.

No,you most be a ******,you know **** about this fight.Team Sauerland won the purse bid($1.14 million) and the fight will probably be in German

[MANGLER]

What else would he say?

[abadger]

Me too. Maybe a fight with Miranda first to re-introduce him to the HBO-audience.

BTW did I mention that Haussler is slow? Well he is! He's taylor-made for Kessler's jab.

Just thought I would step in and correct your English Bat. Kill me if you like. In this context it's 'tailor-made', although I can see why 'Taylor-made' would have a nice ring to it.

Ho ho ho.

[BattlingNelson]

Just thought I would step in and correct your English Bat. Kill me if you like. In this context it's 'tailor-made', although I can see why 'Taylor-made' would have a nice ring to it.

Ho ho ho.

Haha. Thanks for correcting me. The 'Taylor'-joke was not intended.

[Randall_Hopkirk]

Exactly. People need to realise that alphabet titles don't mean too much in todays boxing world and instead of fighting nobodies how about you fight someone who may actually make the fight competitive. Kessler needs to step up otherwise he is in danger of becoming a bit of a joke.

Off topic, but I take it you got your username from the tv program? I just saw it (the oringinal version) and I have to say I prefered the remake.

you guessed it. I grew up watching english drama and that one stands out. Not seen the remake but the original is good enough for me.

[Liaison]

I’d wager that these defenses are merely an attempt to break him into the German market, after he smashed Beyer, none of the stations supposedly wanted to know. Where is he without major network backing? Nowhere….

[abadger]

I’d wager that these defenses are merely an attempt to break him into the German market, after he smashed Beyer, none of the stations supposedly wanted to know. Where is he without major network backing? Nowhere….

In that case one Arhur Abraham would surely be the logical opponent? I would rather see those two avoid each other for a while though. I want them both to get a crack at some US names.

[Liaison]

In that case one Arhur Abraham would surely be the logical opponent?

Lets get Hypothetical here, the match is agreed for December, AA willingly moves up to fight him and gets smashed up in the process and stopped ala Beyer, Kessler gets a good win, the internet smarks are happy for know.

Now he’s back to the predicament he was at back towards the end of 2006. The Germans have watched him beat their favorite adopted son, they don’t want to know this guy, HBO show interest in televising him more BUT he’s expendable, he’s good looking which is a big plus but he’s Danish, the US market is fickle, (Blow/Kessler only had a viewership of 1.6 million, I mean one of the biggest fights of the year only had 1.6m watching, that isn’t mainstream, that’s niche). HBO televise a couple fights of his against good opposition but the numbers are low, HBO decide to cut its ties and screen more lucrative up and comers, he’s back to square 1. Germany doesn’t care, US doesn’t care, Palle doesn’t care.

Building up a core audience in Germany against mediocre fighters gives him not a cushion on which to fall back if **** hits the shovel, but Palle great amount of push on the negotiation table..

[-Antonio-]

I want to see Kessler take on Taylor in Spring of 09. It's something I see happening actually.

[abadger]

Lets get Hypothetical here, the match is agreed for December, AA willingly moves up to fight him and gets smashed up in the process and stopped ala Beyer, Kessler gets a good win, the internet smarks are happy for know.

Now he’s back to the predicament he was at back towards the end of 2006. The Germans have watched him beat their favorite adopted son, they don’t want to know this guy, HBO show interest in televising him more BUT he’s expendable, he’s good looking which is a big plus but he’s Danish, the US market is fickle, (Blow/Kessler only had a viewership of 1.6 million, I mean one of the biggest fights of the year only had 1.6m watching, that isn’t mainstream, that’s niche). HBO televise a couple fights of his against good opposition but the numbers are low, HBO decide to cut its ties and screen more lucrative up and comers, he’s back to square 1. Germany doesn’t care, US doesn’t care, Palle doesn’t care.

Building up a core audience in Germany against mediocre fighters gives him not a cushion on which to fall back if **** hits the shovel, but Palle great amount of push on the negotiation table..

You clearly think a lot more about the logistics of the situation than I do, I tend only to think about fights I'd like to see. But that was kind of your point wasn't it? Sometimes we fans forget how little our opinion actually means when set against the harsh realities of business.

My own view is that both Kessler and Abraham will get frozen out of the American picture for quite a while, and that beating each other will do little to help them. I take the fairly cynical position that it is simply not good business for the US TV companies/ promoters to make fights against threatening european guys like this, because if the US guy loses they lose a potential goldmine and the title goes overseas so there is no chance to build up a new US guy as a replacement. US audiences will simply never take to european boxers as they do home-based stars. Based on this I'd say you are absolutely right about Kessler being wise to try and develop a German following because that is apparently the next best thing.