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i was watching steve bunces boxing hour and they had lou dibella on the phone.whilst on the subject of the khan-barrera fight he said people nowadays seem 2 have forgot about fighters natural size,and promoters are just looking for the big money,regardless of weight class.since pacquiao beat DLH at 147 i have 2 agree,lots of lighter fighters talking about moving up to fight hatton or mayweather,JMM for example.pavlik seeming 2 fight all the top light-middleweights.wot do u lot think?
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its been like that for a long while man - fighters like hatton, pacman, mayweather and further up the scales - hopkins, tito trinidad and RJJ are the money paydays that everyone is chasing.
fighters like JMM, bradley, williams, kessler and abraham find it hard to track down these guys and secure the fights against them.
let me put it another way and there are a small number of highly exclusive and sought after fighters who operate in 2/3 weight classes. these guys (de la hoya prime example) are the big paydays and fighters will look to fight them, however due to the fact that the big name fighter holds all the cards he can make negotiate everything (ring size, glove size etc) thus making it harder for other fighters to break into this small and elite group. another example here is the mayweather DLh fight.
now in the short term its great because it generates interest in the sport and brings it back into the spotlight. but in the long term it muddles already murky waters, no ones quite sure who the linear champ is or how the fighter would do in his real weight class or who is better p4p?
its also hard to know just how much weight should be given to the fight and the victory/loss. take the ricky vs pacman fight for instance, pacman is fighting a weight above his natural weight class and will imo lose quite badly but if ricky does beat him does it make him the p4p no.1 like hes constantly been saying no it doesn't. imo if ricy beats bradley that victory would be more significant than a victory over pacman at 140 anyway.Comment
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p.s. i gurantee you if lou dibella was mayweather promoter when he fought at 154 or pacmans in the build up to the hatton fight he wouldn't be saying that.Comment
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great post there u made some really good points and i have 2 agree.boxing is more like a business today than it ever was.i agree with you on dibella aswell,never really liked the guy 2 be honest.and hatton needs 2 get over this p4p thing and just concentrate on beating manny pacquiaoComment
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Fighters should fight at the weight they can comfortably make. Period.Comment
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This is nothing new, fighters have come up and fighters have come down in weight.
Some think that coming up in weight is a bigger disadvantage but IMO I think coming down in weight is just as bad.
I'm glad they are taking this rout because we do want to see the best fights and we all know fighters never fight at one weight class their entire life.Comment
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