Comments Thread For: U.S. debut Alalshikh card could've used a few more tweaks

[DClefthook]

I think the PPV is DAZN, ESPN+, Prime, and PPV.com?

I know I just like taking shots a Dazn whenever I can haha

[crimsonfalcon07]

I know I just like taking shots a Dazn whenever I can haha

I might even get it on DAZN because ESPN can't make it through a broadcast without it dropping to like 320p, and let me tell you, that looks AWFUL on a 120" screen. No way to force it to higher bandwidth either, and I'm on a gig connection hardwired with WIFI 7 mesh routers. If DAZN were still the original price, I'd be way more interested. Current price is a great big no way. If it's available through Prime though...

[Phase III]

Without Turki, we'd be watching Fury-Chisora 4 lol

PBC is in shambles (shocker), Top Rank has been reduced to a talent-development agency, Golden Boy fighters are jumping ship, and every year Matchroom finds a new way to screw DAZN out of millions

Maybe, we need a fan to run things for awhile

Canelo-Crawford is a win-win for all those reasons you just stated. Turki's doing his part as the A-side to give Canelo a career-high payday lol

I respect your opinion. But, if Turkie wants to give Canelo a “career high payday” then pay him for to fight Benevidez, a fighter Canelo has been ducking while fighting fights that are wins before the first bell. He should fight Benny, Morrell, or even Bivol who has no problem fighting him at 168. Instead, he’s fighting Berlanga, a sure win, while ducking Benny and Morrell who will fight him at 168. Crawford is just another mismatch for the much bigger Canelo, even given his diminishing skills.

If money is no object for Turkie, then make the fights that make the most sense. Turkie, here’s some help.

Crawford v Boots 147-154
Canelo v Benevidez, Morrell, or Bivol at 168. Or
175 pound tournament… Benny, Morrell, Bivol, Beterbiev
Opetaia v Ramirez… Cruiser
140 pound tournament..Tank v Shakur, Teo, Pitbull, Zepeda
Inoue v Junto at 122 or
Bam Rodriguez v Junto

[TonyRespectful]

I know I just like taking shots a Dazn whenever I can haha

lol,we’ve noticed !

[DClefthook]

I might even get it on DAZN because ESPN can't make it through a broadcast without it dropping to like 320p, and let me tell you, that looks AWFUL on a 120" screen. No way to force it to higher bandwidth either, and I'm on a gig connection hardwired with WIFI 7 mesh routers. If DAZN were still the original price, I'd be way more interested. Current price is a great big no way. If it's available through Prime though...

"Gig connection"??? You must be on the east coast like me and have Verizon FIOS! Comcast can't get you anywhere near those speeds!

[DClefthook]

lol,we’ve noticed !

Hahahahahha

[crimsonfalcon07]

"Gig connection"??? You must be on the east coast like me and have Verizon FIOS! Comcast can't get you anywhere near those speeds!

Nope. Currently stationed in Texas. Had a 2 gig at our previous station in Alaska though. Can recommend GCI if any of you find yourselves in AK. Also, agreed that Comcast sucks.

[nghtmr111]

Card looks good but $200 for nosebleeds in a stadium, yeah I'm not paying that **** + parking.

Not to mention… Tall cans of **** beer $20-$30 EACH!

Event ticket, parking, a few beers and maybe food… Easily $300-$400 day.

[boxing IQ]

As I’ve said many times, Crawford is a very good fighter with absolutely no personality org marketing/PPV value. . Madrimov, his opponent has a excellent amateur record but even in boxing circles, is an unknown. Turkie is wasting the Saudi oil money desperately wanting to make Crawford v Canelo. Crawford beats Canelo, Canelo is old and only a shadow of his former self. Canelo wins and you have Canelo beating another little guy. Crawford v Canelo is a complete waste of money. Crawford v Boots is the fight Turkie.

Ruiz v Miller are twice HW fighters that are not going anywhere in the HW division. Miller is a serial drug cheat and Ruiz has been inactive and known to eat his way out of the most important fight of his life (AJ). Ruiz had the opportunity of a lifetime in his rematch against AJ and blew it and showed he has no discipline and would prefer to be in the West Coast version of the Nathan’s hot dog chowing contest by eating the most Tacos in 10 minutes. Would be more interesting to see if Ruiz can eat more tacos than Miller eating more hot dogs in 10 minutes. Neither fighter is going anywhere in the HW division. Total waste of money Turkie.

Morrell v Kalajdzic….another showcase win for Morrell. He may just be the best fighter between 168-175. No Canelo for Benny? Benny v Morrell is the fight!

Andy Cruz v Moran is an easy fight for Cruz. If Turkie was going to spend money making the Saudi US debut, Keyshawn Davis would have been a much better fight.

Anderson v Bakole is a 50/50 fight. Bakole is no easy out and could give Anderson all he can handle.

Pitbull v Valenzuela is the best fight on the card. Pitbull has shown difficulties with southpaws but should survive a close decision.

This event would be lucky to do over 300K PPV buys in the U.S. This card wasn’t well thought out for a Saudi U.S. debut.

Turkie is spending Kobe beef money and getting Mac n Cheese.

I think people are forgetting that Madrimov is the WBA 154lb champion, aka the first stop to undisputed. And this is Crawford's first fight since the biggest win of his career. It should've been 6 months ago, damn it, but here we are

Lol the heavyweight champion of the world who partied too much haha I get it. Andy's so much better when he's active and at his ideal weight. His next fight intrigues me more than this one

100% on Bakole-Anderson

That projection is a fair one. I think Turki's prepared to lose money on this to see how some of these fighters perform on the big stage. This way, he knows how to match them up

[Phase III]

Turkie is spending all this money and has to paper the house because ticket sales are going worse than tickets for an atheist convention in Rome.

The fights on the card resemble a Chinese take out menu. I mean geographically speaking, along with choice of fights, even a poo poo platter of fighters with some geographic connection to the West Coast would have made more sense. There’s an Arab fighting a Pole. Believe me, even three Polish guys could have put a card together that had a West Coast/Mexico vibe.

Crawford, who has the personality of an ant is the headliner against a fighter only a boxing junkie might know. Not having Pitbull as the headliner simply shows the lack of thought that went into putting this smorgasbord of a card together.

It just might turn out that watching Sean Gibbons pacing back and forth as if he were in the maternity waiting room expecting his first child while the wife is in the delivery room screaming out the top of her lungs, get me the F-in epidural, might be the real highlight of the show.

Ruiz v Miller, only a visionary like Turkie could have thought of putting on that fight. Finding a scale with enough digits to weigh Andy and Miller might be more interesting than the fight.

David Morrell and Andy Cruz are very good fighters. Is there a Little Havana in LA? Maybe since Turkie isn’t familiar with the U. S. geographically, he thinks you can just Uber it from Miami to LA.,

In the corporate world, you spend the money Turkie’s spending, during the Olympics no mess, and then you have to paper the house because ticket sales are going awfully bad, and you would get sacked. in a New York minute. Oh, my bad, this is. Saudi show so Turkie, if MBS wants you to meet at the Turkish Embassy in Saudi, trust me, it’s not to view ice carvings.

The good news Turkie is that you didn’t have to buy your sidekick Frank Warren a plane ticket to come to the show because he’s on the U. S. no fly list and can’t enter the country.

PS: Hear ye, hear ye, pray for our brother Turkie because ticket sales and PPV sales will be so bad, Inshallah, the outdoor venue doesn’t get a *******ial downpour causing a flood so high, Turkie needs to import camels to evacuate the attendees.