Is everbody enjoying THE CONTENDER

[leroy]

What a great idea this show is, especially as they are all professional fighters as well. It's a pity there is no way of seeing more of the footage and not just what they squeeze into the 1hr show. I think an underdog will take the prize money.

[Truth]

Its not great but its decent and alot better than "The Next Great Champ".

[Truth]

My favorite part about the contender is the fight sequences look real unlike The Next Great Champ it looked like a movie.

[huthut85]

Nah, the fight sceanes are awful. They cut away to the audiance every 5 seconds and you only get to see about 25 seconds of each round. The sound effects and music also detract from the realism. it's all way too holywood.

But overall i think its a fun show, im enjoying it very much so far. Hopefully a show like this can help to build boxing back up as a sport in the states. It can't hurt anyhoo... Im looking forward to seeing Ishme Smith fight. He looks like the buisness (even if he did ****-out of fighting that Arab-Dane who sounds Puerto Rican hehe)

[CMH]

I'm liking the show, especially the drama aspect. You cannot "fake" the intensity of boxers, and the fighters on The Contender all seem very focussed and determined. That said, the competitions are ****** (dodgeball, wtf?) and the celebrity cameos are lame.
It's nice to see boxing on network television. Watch the show.

[guru]

i'm not concerned about not seeing the entire fight, that's what HBO, ESPN are for.... this is the only TV show about boxers and it shows that most of them are average joes not ultra rich idiots...

[bigdlb12]

I am diggin the show but I just notice that I missed it on subday, what happen?

[bigdlb12]

http://boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=239085

and

http://contender.tv.yahoo.com/01/fighters/juan.html

where did he get his other 9 fights from?

[bigdlb12]

ishe shows active

http://boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=043999

and

Alfonso too

http://boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=044511

[manila_assasin]

Its not great but its decent and alot better than "The Next Great Champ".

I agree with you on that one. It's so much more well budgeted than the Oscar Dela Hoya show.