Comments Thread For: ESPN Makes A Heavy(weight) Investment in Boxing's Future

[kingzapata02]

respect to ESPN. Absolutely loving it. Now "TBE" ring commentator Teddy Atlas gets to call an important fight. **** ****! lol

[Mr. Philadel]

I bet ESPN payed for Brigg's flight and hotel in Germany....just a hunch!!....ESPN probably got him to come through and turn up...Briggs damn near blurted it out...listen to his rant closely!!

[PunchyPotorff]

No complaints here. The more the merrier. I doubt Wlad's fight will impress, but Stiverne/Arreola will be fun.

[Croyd]

Heavyweight fights at rock bottom prices. ESPN stole this.
The Arreola fight should be decent at least. I'll probably doze off on the couch watching Wlad.

[Mooshashi]

Stiverne looked really good against Arreola last time.....been waiting to see him again although there is no reason to expect anything other than another beatdown of Cristobal.

[Jloro]

lmao not the best choice of fight to pick up but better than nothing

[STEELHEAD]

I'm just hoping Wlad doesn't stink the joint up and actually tries to be entertaining. He's certainly facing an opponent he should be able to fighting entertainingly against.

i would think wlad will be inspired being on u.s. tv. he's lucky to be on espn.
i'm going from wlad by ud to wlad mid rnd tko.
he starts getting punch shy and clutching again hope he gets blackballed.

[Shambrolic]

Ever since Mayweather and CBS partner up, boxing in the states have increased exponentially on its exposure. Looks like Boxing is starting to get major relevance back, I guess networks and media notice that it's recession proof.

[Fr3$h]

Some of Wlad's fights are definitely extremely uncompetitive, but I'd still rather watch that than the usual prospect vs fat hopeless journeymen at a casino.

I always wondered why its such a sudden drop for boxers; you have a big KO and you get on HBO, you have a boring fight and you're dropped from US television completely. Why don't ESPN/FSN/etc make a habit of televising those fights? It must cost them basically nothing. Some networks took a chance on showing overseas MMA events before it was big and look how that paid off.

[LoadedWraps]

If they want to invest in the future of the HW division and boxing simultaneously they better sign Tyson Fury.