Comments Thread For: Saul Alvarez Begins Training For June 18th HBO Defense

[Stanly Ketchel]

Old double R Ryan Rhodes huh. Problem with them handing him the WBC strap so early just so they can start to cash in on him is that he will now have to fight real fighters, right? Wrong, get ready for the doule R tour

[Stanly Ketchel]

This cat is a Fraud...when is he gonna fight a legitimate opponent? in his 50th fight?

Why he is the WBC 154 lb champ!!! LMFAO!!!!

[flint]

fight on. everybody just keep fighting. makes sense to stay busy

[welcometosaigon]

Why he is the WBC 154 lb paper champ!!! LMFAO!!!!

Fixed that for you.

[HBGBoxingFan]

Dumb ass Arum. He can do this on PPV but not Lopez-Gamboa? YOU KIDDIN' ME??? It better be a stacked ****in card to pay money for a prospects main event.

Arum has nothing to do with this PPV. Canelo is a Golden Boy fighter, he's not with Top Rank.

[pistol whip]

Pistol whip being a nationalistic Mexican yet again? Never in the history of NSB has this ever happened (apart from the other 5000 times it happened, obviously).

They don't even have an opponent secured yet. This fight is on PPV because HBO and Golden Boy believe that your people are so blindly nationalistic that you'll pay to see Alvarez no matter who he fights. They don't do the same with American and Rican prospects because I guess those guys don't take nuthugging and bias to quite the same level.

As fans, I think it's natural to dislike being asked to pay even more money just to see a paper champion fight a hand-picked opponent. As fans, I think it's natural to express disappointment when anything other than the very important fights are on PPV.

1. I have to be born in Mexico to be nationalistic about a fighter from Mexico you ***ing mouthbreather.

2. For all the complaining about the popularity of boxing that I see daily on thei message board why in the ***ing world would anyone on this board complain or be offended by the popularity of a boxer???? Boxing isn't gonna capture the imagination of the public ever again till ****** knownothing hardcore boxing fans realize that popular fighter make boxing more popular! Seriously who cares who buys the ***ing PPV? If it helps boxing isn't that what matters? You don't have buy the PPV but if it sells I fail to see how this is a bad thing for boxing?

3. You don't see promoters doing this with American and Rican prospects because nobody gives a *** about them. I really don't have to give anymore of an explination.

[pistol whip]

This cat is a Fraud...when is he gonna fight a legitimate opponent? in his 50th fight?

And when are the majority of most good 20 year old fighters gonna fight someone that doesnt have headgear on?

[pistol whip]

Yeah, because Cotto is a 20 year old prospect who hasn't fought anybody

And Cotto was fighting who exactly when he was 20 years old?

[J to the L]

the only problem with canelo is we that he is ginger, all we know that ginger people have no soul.

[rasdun]

who said - when is he going to fight a legit opponent? - Rhodes is definitely a legit opponent. Is he a marquee name like Cotto or Angulo, no, but he is a legit top 10 contender.

That being said, how is this a PPV fight? If a promoter wants to do an independent PPV, I have no problem with that, but why would HBO make this a PPV fight - that's ridiculous