Why did HBO show Stiverne Austin instead of K9 Powell?

[Forza]

don king wants an american HW.

[ny123]

don king was the promoter & he always shows a heavyweight fight.his real passion is heavyweights & since austin & stiverne are both his guys & the winner gets the mandatory spot in the WBC...stiverne is top 10 in WBC because of his 2 regional belts & austin is still top 10 in WBC regardless of the solis DQ...don king is the best promoter IMO...

So basically King forced it on HBO and HBO instead of saying no and showing the better match up took it like good little biches. Ok thanks for the response.

[THe TRiNiTY]

It was a relatively competitive Heavyweight bout, but in truth Bundrage-Powell would have made for good television and would have made more sense. He is perhaps going to be facing Saul Alvarez in a unification bout and I'm pretty sure that HBO would plan on carrying that bout.

I hope that I can get a hold of some footage of that fight. Seemed like a decent, little scrap.

[ny123]

It was a relatively competitive Heavyweight bout, but in truth Bundrage-Powell would have made for good television and would have made more sense. He is perhaps going to be facing Saul Alvarez in a unification bout and I'm pretty sure that HBO would plan on carrying that bout.

I hope that I can get a hold of some footage of that fight. Seemed like a decent, little scrap.

I enjoyed watching Austin school this kid up until the ko and wouldnt have complained if there wasnt a better fight that could have been shown in its place.

[RSBonos]

They showed the last two rounds on the international feed, doesn't seem like we missed much.

[*Khan]

don king wants an american HW.

Stiverne is Haitian-Canadian.

[-Antonio-]

K9 has been in some terrible fights. Powell has been in some boring fights. From all accounts the fight wasn't very good. I'd rather see a slow heavyweight fight because at least there's a chance for a KO and that happened.

[ny123]

K9 has been in some terrible fights. Powell has been in some boring fights. From all accounts the fight wasn't very good. I'd rather see a slow heavyweight fight because at least there's a chance for a KO and that happened.

Ok but Austin vs Stiverne instead? Just the fact that Powell K9 was a title fight and with the winner possibly having a big fight after i would think HBO would show that. I do remember going to Foreman vs Bundrage now so you do have a point though.