Incredible Face-Off: Alvarado-Provodnikov

[King_]

i think its safe to say hes now crossing the threshold into a whole new career.

Yeah I agree... I'm not sure why its felt that Provodnikov must be classified as a "career ESPN" guy..... Did he fight most of his career on ESPN? Sure.... but is he a ESPN-level guy? I don't see how you can say yes, he went life and death with Timmy and if he beats Alvarado...... i think its safe to say he has a chance against most fighters.

He's not very skilled but thats not how he fights and there's other ways to win besides pure boxing


Side note: Anyone else feel kind of bad for Alvarado? I know this has been said but he beat Rios and Rios is getting the Pac payday and Alvarado is fighting a guy who is going straight at him and not getting paid nearly as much as he would of versus pac

[jabSTRAIGHTh00k]

Anyone know who Ruslan's trainer is? isn't it Roach?

[soul_survivor]

i think its safe to say hes now crossing the threshold into a whole new career.

I think so too. I think Mikey wins this one but I hope Ruslan gets another shot. It's gona be close either way though

[King_]

Anyone know who Ruslan's trainer is? isn't it Roach?

Yeah its Roach

[Fetta]

Yeah I agree... I'm not sure why its felt that Provodnikov must be classified as a "career ESPN" guy..... Did he fight most of his career on ESPN? Sure.... but is he a ESPN-level guy? I don't see how you can say yes, he went life and death with Timmy and if he beats Alvarado...... i think its safe to say he has a chance against most fighters.

He's not very skilled but thats not how he fights and there's other ways to win besides pure boxing

I hope he does get more fights. He is exciting but the fact is he's a career ESPN FNF. Not saying as insult but he's been at that level for a reason. Like I said I hope this is the beginning
More better fighters is a good thing

[apocalypto]

Ruslan is a stone cold killer

[King_]

I hope he does get more fights. He is exciting but the fact is he's a career ESPN FNF. Not saying as insult but he's been at that level for a reason. Like I said I hope this is the beginning
More better fighters is a good thing

I hear you, but if ESPN can't be used as a national stage to catapult a fighter onto a bigger stage and bigger things, then it should be abolished altogether and they should just take FNFs off. what fighter with high aspirations would wanna fight and put his health on the line if people are just gonna be like "ohhh that doesn't matter. it was an ESPN fight"

I get what you're saying though, I just look at it a bit different. I don't have a problem with guys coming up on ESPN/NBC and if they impress somewhat, give em a chance on a bigger network and see what happens. Provo got his versus Timmy and he showed he deserves to be in the mix.

anyway I absolutely can't wait for these next two weeks. Timmy-JMM and Provo-Alvarado

[KING MEAT]

this is like an interview with innocent looking serial killers.

gave me chills. i like both these guys.

provodnikov is a man with nothing to lose. and that presents danger.

[TheGoldenBoy]

I thought you were being sarcastic with the thread title.

I'm not sure what people are talking about... the Face-Off wasn't that great. Provodnikov was good and intense. Alvarado couldn't put a sentence together. Kellerman had to finish talking for him.

I feel bad for Provodnikov because he's going to get ****ed, yet again. No way they give him this fight.

[aaron.king]

best faceoff... nah..... this is the best faceoff ever:

I didn't necessarily think Alvarado-Provodnikov was the best Face-Off, only the most ... I don't know ... unsettling. In terms of pure entertainment, you are correct.