Fight Camp worked great for the Super Six, maybe due to the multiple interesting and distinct characters involved.
For this fight, the Fight Camp crew has been forced to produce material much more regularly, every week as opposed to every two or three months like they were used to with the Super Six, so that may be it too.
The biggest thing that 24/7 has over Fight Camp 360 is that all the footage that is shown is recent. Fight Camp 360 is showing footage that is a month old. The episode that was shown tonight happened about three to four weeks ago. If this was an episode of 24/7 we would have seen Pacquiao and Shane training on Media day, Roach returning to america from the Khan/McCloskey fight, Pacquiao training without Roach for a few days. I dont think Fight Camp is even close to the same level of 24/7.
I can;t disagree with any of the criticism regarding this series.
Fight Camp 360 seemed to go all out for the Super Six, though in fairness it will be more compelling when there's more subject matter.
Through two eps of Pac-Mosley Fight Camp 360, what I've taken from the series... is that Showtime is still adjusting to being in Pac's presence. This has become like any other Pac event lately - the fight itself doesn't change, so it becomes more about the surroundings.
Pac-Clottey was all about Cowboys Stadium.
Pac-Margarito was all about the stadium again - trying to catch lightning in a bottle - and winning a (paper) belt in an eighth weight class.
Pac-Mosley is all about CBS being involved.
This event has been less about reinventing the wheel than it has about repacakaging it.
Damn Jake, I agree 100% with this post. The last time the fight was the actual focus for selling a Pacquiao PPV was the Hatton fight. But I'll give it to Arum, whatever he is doing, is working. I'm in the minority that likes the Fight Camp 360 series, but I think 24/7 does just about everything better.
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