Comments Thread For: Garcia-Malignaggi PBC Card Pulls in 1.073 Million Viewers

[MisanthropicNY]

Ronda's 34 seconds was more exciting than Danny-Paulie..boxing is a marginal sport because the focus is on defense rather than offense. More credit for defense than offense since boxing went PC and pro- "slick" fighter

If referees would start taking points away for clinching and judges stopped rewarding fighters who run around the ring creating low-out put fights..the sport would be more offensive and exciting the way it should be...

You should win a fight for doing damage to your opponent..not running and clinching and winning rounds because you land 10 pot shots and your opponents lands 7.

[Fetta]

Went to buffalo wild wings for dinner and drinks with some friends and they only had 1 TV dedicated to Garcia fight, cause according to manager, no one asks for any boxing fights not even the PPV's (other than major ones). It was on there for me cause i convinced him as he says but anyway what i noticed was how hyped the crowd was for UFC.

Made me think why isnt boxing this way? And what i came up with was that boxing has no structure at all. fighters stuck with promoters that dont allow others to fight them (in-house fights), fans fighting amongst themselves about what network to watch, and these were just the big glaring problems out there. So i began thinking im happy someone is attempting to unify the sport.

Imagine one governing body with all the best fighters under one brand. It would feel like an actual sport. The same debates would continue, but more on the boxing side, as opposed to the tired ramble about promoters clashing, HBO, PBC, and the overall boxing politics that ruins the sport at times.

I make it no secret but heres hoping PBC or something similar to it succeeds. No matter who leads it.

BTW: after a few drinks i conducted an experiment and asked 10 people if they knew of 5 boxers. GGG, Garcia, Broner, Khan, Kov

Most did not know any of them. Broner most known with Khan coming in 2nd.

[Hougigo]

The fighters are all complaining about the Reebok deal. I don't think it will last..

I saw a video recently where they talked about the reebok deal and how it affects them in January of this year. Roy Nelson talked about how losing his sponsors if the Reebok deal gave the fighters 6 figures wouldn't be a big issue.... the max is a champion getting 40k

Ronda and others PPV fighters take a cut @ PPV money.

Even w/o that though that seemed really low as a base salary... I mean Maia got 220k for a prelim fight

[Fetta]

Same F@ggots that were hyping Kov / Mohammedi for peaking at 1.05 are the same b.itches criticizing Garcia / Paulie doing 1.07. ( Bigger Platform though)


Some of you fans( term used loosely) are downright pathetic

Maybe its the same people watching?

Boxing has topped out.

[Mr. Philadel]

Ronda's 34 seconds was more exciting than Danny-Paulie..boxing is a marginal sport because the focus is on defense rather than offense. More credit for defense than offense since boxing went PC and pro- "slick" fighter

If referees would start taking points away for clinching and judges stopped rewarding fighters who run around the ring creating low-out put fights..the sport would be more offensive and exciting the way it should be...

You should win a fight for doing damage to your opponent..not running and clinching and winning rounds because you land 10 pot shots and your opponents lands 7.

who sent you here?!?...Dana White?

[Humean]

Same F@ggots that were hyping Kov / Mohammedi for peaking at 1.05 are the same b.itches criticizing Garcia / Paulie doing 1.07. ( Bigger Platform though)


Some of you fans( term used loosely) are downright pathetic

I believe that ESPN is in about 3 times as many homes as HBO and Kovalev-Mohammedi put together a Russian versus a Frenchman (very unknown in US too) whereas Garcia and Malignaggi put together two US fighters, one of whom has been fighting on US tv for a few years now and the other for the best part of a decade.

[Luiz]

Even w/o that though that seemed really low as a base salary... I mean Maia got 220k for a prelim fight

The UFC does the same as PBC paying fighters off the book.

[Mitchell Kane]

The fighters are all complaining about the Reebok deal. I don't think it will last..

It's not just the fighters.

Look at what happened with Stitch Duran.

[SilverMiles]

If you're a true boxing fan you can't be happy with these numbers. Haymon is going to need pump the brakes and decrease these purses. Guys are getting paid way too much and if you don't agree you're just a fan boy.

The sport has to survive and for it too survive smart decisions have to be made. Fighters need to fight more often, smaller purses, and be told to lay it all on the line before each and every fight.

No more just trying to survive, no more running down the clock. Catch the audience imagination and stop settling for getting it done.

[PRBOXINGCOTTO]

sorry but that is false no other popular fighters but Garcia for this card he's the only known name. paulie brought in a few Italians but that's it.