Anyone think that the whole HBO triple-header is a bad idea?

[-GDS-]

I do. It doesn't seem like this event is going to be successful. Everything just seems too forced. If HBO got everything ready and signed by the end of this week, it would give the fighters at best about a six week training camp. And the quality of the opponents will only be so high on such a short term notice, and this will be not too great for the fighter's careers, not too great for the people who think there paying to see competive fights, and will give reason for negative feelings among the hardcore boxing fans. At best, this will be lightly covered a New York press tour for HBO's lesser stars, and at worst a waste of time which creates negative resentment.

[Kball15]

Well everyone has known about the card for a while now so I'm assuming the fighters have already started their training already.

And at worst I think we'll still have some fun fights. I mean its 3 pretty decent matchups that are basically there to showcase certain fighters and build certain potential fights.

Those kinds of cards are usually easily predictably but at the same time fun to watch. I personally am looking forward to it

[daggum]

Well everyone has known about the card for a while now so I'm assuming the fighters have already started their training already.

And at worst I think we'll still have some fun fights. I mean its 3 pretty decent matchups that are basically there to showcase certain fighters and build certain potential fights.

Those kinds of cards are usually easily predictably but at the same time fun to watch. I personally am looking forward to it

those kind of cards are what's terrible about boxing. tune up fights should be on undercards of real fights cept real fights rarely get made anymore and we just get an endless cycle of crap. why does hbo need to showcase certain fighters? why not put on actual competitive fights? i think that would showcase how good the fighters really are. hi berto!

[Kevin Malone]

I'm not real excited about that card at all. Nothing on it I really want to see or intrigues me.

I love tripleheaders just not this one.

[Kball15]

those kind of cards are what's terrible about boxing. tune up fights should be on undercards of real fights cept real fights rarely get made anymore and we just get an endless cycle of crap. why does hbo need to showcase certain fighters? why not put on actual competitive fights? i think that would showcase how good the fighters really are. hi berto!

i mean i agree with u to an extent but at the same time i want as many people watching these great fights as possible.

As hardcore fans we can see which fights are gonna be great and which ones arent, but the casual fan doesnt see that.

They wanna see these guys look spectacular against solid opposition, so they can to themselves "wow when these two guys meet its gonna be spectacular" and when the fight is inevitably signed they will tune in.

This triple header sets each guy up to possibly look spectacular against fighters that could just as easily make them look bad. For us thats the only intrigue to the show. Can these very talented fighters step up and impress us. But to Casual guys its a much more eye-opening experience and for that reason I can understand these kinds of cards, take them for what they are, and enjoy them

[onechance87]

They should just save this money,And make berto not fight the rest of
the year for turning down the mosley fight.How they did with angulo.

[-GDS-]

They should just save this money,And make berto not fight the rest of
the year for turning down the mosley fight.How they did with angulo.

Berto's not pushing for these lackluster fights. HBO is.

[daggum]

Berto's not pushing for these lackluster fights. HBO is.

berto turned down 50-50 against mosley. he's a greedy bum that wants a free ride fighting soft opponents.

[paulf]

berto turned down 50-50 against mosley. he's a greedy bum that wants a free ride fighting soft opponents.

This is also HBO's fault. He's making a million dollars a fight now fighting bums, because HBO's decided to pay him that much. Why step up to a challenge for 2 million when you're getting rich fighting canned guys a million bucks a pop?

HBO is ****ing up.

[Russian Crushin]

Im very excited. If its held in MCC park in brooklyn it will sell out easy. Theres a VERY large Ukrainian population there and its rare they get to see Kotelnik or Dzin.

If its made i will be there just to see those two, not really Berto or Caballero