Comments Thread For: Nakathila-Muratalla To Open Haney-Lomachenko ESPN Pay-Per-View Telecast May 20

[El_Mero]

Ppv? Lmao...Haney aint worth it.

[Mammoth]

I hope Muratalla is ready for that

[Feroz]

Excited that he is finally going to get a recognizable name but kinda worried for Muratalla since he got timed by Galindo. These things kinda do happen once in a while but the reason he got caught was because he was too relaxed and wasn't attentive enough for the left hook.

Do think this is the type of fight Raymond is ready for since I put him quite above over Berchelt, but he has to be more defensively cautious as Nakathila is a vet whose a very strong puncher.

As for the Haney vs Loma being PPV, I will likely not be buying this card unless it has a very good co-main but it is pretty good nonetheless.

[crimsonfalcon07]

As for the Haney vs Loma being PPV, I will likely not be buying this card unless it has a very good co-main but it is pretty good nonetheless.

The other fight on the card is a rematch between Oscar Valdez and Adam Lopez. And that's behind an $80 paywall. It's a garbage card from Flop Rank.

[Feroz]

The other fight on the card is a rematch between Oscar Valdez and Adam Lopez. And that's behind an $80 paywall. It's a garbage card from Flop Rank.

yeah, decent card but Valdez facing a unranked fighter he already knocked out with Haney fighting a faded Loma ain't worth no 80$ bucks.

[crimsonfalcon07]

yeah, decent card but Valdez facing a unranked fighter he already knocked out with Haney fighting a faded Loma ain't worth no 80$ bucks.

For comparison, here's a much maligned Matchroom card headlined by the Canelo v Yildirim mismatch:

Canelo Alvarez vs. Avni Yildirim for Alvarez’s WBC/WBA Super Middleweight titles
McWilliams Arroyo vs. Abraham Rodriguez for the interim WBC flyweight title
Zhang Zhilei vs. Jerry Forrest; Heavyweight
Diego Pacheco vs. Rodolfo Gomez Jr.; Super Middleweight
Alexis Espino vs. Ashton Sykes; Super Middleweight
Keyshawn Davis vs. Lester Brown; Junior Lightweight
Aaron Aponte vs. Harry Gigliotti; Junior Welterweight
Marc Castro vs. John Moraga; Junior Lightweight

That wasn't a PPV either. People on here held this up as an example of how horrible DAZN cards are, which isn't necessarily false, but that's a free card compared to this 3 fight $80 PPV from Arum.

[champion4ever]

Bob probably doesn't want Haney exposure, this what networks do when they cannot afford a fight put it on PPV.

Or in this case, when a fighter wants more money. People are forgetting that Haney had to take a very huge and substantial pay cut in order to challenge for George Kambosos' titles.

So now he wants his just due. If he really wants the fight with Haney; Then Arum must be willing to pay him whatever he wants. Team Haney has Top Rank by the balls and they know it.

They are now sitting in the Catbird seat because this time around they hold all the cards and leverage

[Sid-Knee]

Excited that he is finally going to get a recognizable name but kinda worried for Muratalla since he got timed by Galindo. These things kinda do happen once in a while but the reason he got caught was because he was too relaxed and wasn't attentive enough for the left hook.

Do think this is the type of fight Raymond is ready for since I put him quite above over Berchelt, but he has to be more defensively cautious as Nakathila is a vet whose a very strong puncher.

As for the Haney vs Loma being PPV, I will likely not be buying this card unless it has a very good co-main but it is pretty good nonetheless.

Muratalla will be fine. Nakathila will have been out of the ring for 14 months by the time the fight comes along. Arum has had this planned ever since he wanted to make Stevenson look good by feeding Berchelt to him after getting knocked out by Valdez. He then put him on the shelf to take away his momentum and make him ring rusty so another one of his fighters could take advantage of it. Then hey presto, a new "Star" is born. Not really, but the perception will say so even though the truth is the opposite.

[LA_2_Vegas]

Too nonchalant again last fight, this time he got put down.

He warms up and it looks good; but he has to show the same respect early on, attention to detail.

Nakathalia was able to work Stevenson to the ropes many times in their fight, so Muratalla will again face that challenge. The Galindo guy was pretty decent I thought - good height, jab, he was spry, had stamina...pretty good prep and maybe he stays "turned on" and fights like ht did the second half.

[kiaba360]

Inactivity (Nakathila) vs. an extremely quick turn-around (Muratalla).