Valero-Pitalua, Katsidis-Chavez, Barrios-Hernandez on 4/4

[savorduhflavor]

HBO is just distributing it. It's like what they did for Marquez-Casamayor. It probably costs a lot less for PPV then it does to dip into their BAD budget. I think GBP has to pay HBO for distributing instead. Something along those lines. Either way, it saves HBO money.

Haha, I read it over, realized I read it wrong and deleted my post hoping it would get deleted before you saw it. Damn it!

[Texanballer]

It think this will be 39.99. 34.99 is the least i expect the price t0 be

[Dave Rado]

The idea behind the Golden Boy tournament is to pit the overall winner, at some point, against the victor of Juan Manuel Marquez-Juan Diaz on February 28 or Nate Campbell-Ali Funeka on February 14. If Valero wins his fight, he will not be involved in the above mentioned plans. Valero was recently signed by Top Rank, and Bob Arum [Top Rank head] wants to build him as a future opponent for Manny Pacquiao.
[details]

Why are the two things mutually exclusive? What better way to build Valero as a future opponent for Pacquiao than for him to clean out the other Lightweights? Unless it's because Arum doesn't think Valero is good enough to do that?

[v.cassiusali@ya]

is this the farewell fight of jesus chavez and jorge barrios? these fighters are over-the-hill.

[warp1432]

Umm do you know who Jorge Barrios is facing? If he doesn't in that fight, it will be upset of the year. Carlos Hernendez is done man.

[egreezy]

The reason why this is PPV is because Showtime, HBO, and mainly Versus did not want to buy it. If anything blame Versus. This is their type of show, but yet did not want to put forward the money. The fighters probably aren't going to get paid a lot and I don't see any other Versus shows besides the contender finalie. Versus should have bought this, but now that they didn't the fans have to deal with it.

It makes perfect sense for them to be fighting all on one card. It makes no sense on why Versus didn't pick it up. Hopefully they price it at 25 or 30 or else no one is going to buy it.

I'm only a little mad at Versus the last fight they had was Toney-Oquendo, they could be still pissed from that.

[KJB]

Awesome line up. Tournaments are always a good thing.

[KJB]

Why are the two things mutually exclusive? What better way to build Valero as a future opponent for Pacquiao than for him to clean out the other Lightweights? Unless it's because Arum doesn't think Valero is good enough to do that?

Valero would be far from a lock to win the tournament. Arum is gonna play it smart so he has a decent opponent for Pac if all turns out well in the Hatton fight.

[warp1432]

I'm only a little mad at Versus the last fight they had was Toney-Oquendo, they could be still pissed from that.

They have the ****ing contender. It's the second highest watched show on the network besides the NHL. How hard is it not to advertise and put commercials on during hockey and the contender? Surely fans would watch. It's not that hard to do.

[Guest]

Valero would be far from a lock to win the tournament. Arum is gonna play it smart so he has a decent opponent for Pac if all turns out well in the Hatton fight.

Pac and Valero will never fight no matter what Valero does in the interim.