One thing Al Haymon and the PBC can improve on Immediately Is.....

[creekrat77]

The Ring Entrances....

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ABOMINATION??????????????

He has basically ruined one of the most beautiful aspects of a professional prize fighter, his ring entrance;

-The music
-The walk
-The entourages
-The confidence or lack thereof


Ring Entrance shows the personality of a boxer. It adds to the excitement, the ambiance of the entire proceeding. Its just as much as part of boxing as a jab.

ITS HISTORY.
ITS TIME HONORED TRADITION.

Ring Entrance is part of the ESSENCE of a prize fighter.

What Al Haymon has done is basically bastardized the ring entrance by microwaving it. Hurry up and get to the ring. The music only lasts for so long and the fighter is separated from his entourage. I dont like the ring entrance set up of the PBC. Its a disgrace to the sport and disrespectful to a fighter.

Totes agree. It's obvious he is trying to be all different and innovative but don't reconfigure how the sport has done things for decades. It feels too much like a TV set. If that's what they are going for then they should travel around the country to different venues, which maybe they are doing, idk. All I know that's what WWE does, kinda like a tour. I think it would be a great idea if they could establish a venue in Vegas. Not having huge fights or anything there but having contenders like he is doing now fight every few weeks. But more consistently host fights like Friday, Saturday and Sunday every week. Not have big names fighting all the time on these days but just giving boxers who aren't ranked very high stay busy. I bet it would draw people considering its mostly guys in vegas every weekend on vacation going nuts.

[Outwest Exp 355]

are those twins the match makers? please dont tell me that.

At the very least their involved in the process. Those mutha****as are every where.

[Bigg Rigg]

I like that they have the same blue ring and black ropes for every event. I never really noticed if the other companies always had the same set up but I like that about PBC. The ring entrances are ok but that ****** music they play needs to get the boot!! Let guys come out to their own ****. They atleast meet up with their team half way thru it. Oh, Another thing is the ring announcing situation. Have the guy in the ring. Does anybody else feel that way about that???

[BrometheusBob.]

I agree that PBC should allow the fighters to have their own entrances, which is as big a part of boxing tradition as any. Not a deal breaker, just a preference for me.

[JRB123]

The music is because he was in the music industry and knows if ASCAP wanted to, they could sue him for using artist material without permission.

The ring entrance without the entourage is because he needs to make sure there's no riff raff and bs. PBC has commercials, PBC doesn't have time to kick Tyrone, and Lesean out of the ring because they want some camera time.

I understand the 2nd part. The first part could be because of language issues with the music since they're on network television. Yeah, there are clean versions of tracks, but still...

Besides, we're here to watch the fights...the entrances come secondary (if that)

[intoccabile]

Time constraints are why a lot is missing.

[daggum]

I understand the 2nd part. The first part could be because of language issues with the music since they're on network television. Yeah, there are clean versions of tracks, but still...

Besides, we're here to watch the fights...the entrances come secondary (if that)

well the fights suck so shouldn't something be good?

[lewishamboy]

PBC sucks serious balls and is ruining boxing.

Regular HBO & Showtime cards - those are starting to feel like the glory days - with healthy competition between the two networks. Ok, things weren't perfect, but it was a much better state of affairs.

This Haymon **** is the worst thing to happen to boxing since i've been following the sport. The problem is, since it's free, people can't/won't/don't complain..

Even tho

The match-ups are not competitive
The commentary is poor (except ESPN who already did boxing)
The production is cheesy
The ringwalks ruined
Titles not recognized
The general vibe and atmosphere of most of the shows is manufactured, non-organic and subsidized by corporate cash#
They've eaten up HBO & Showtime's (much better) schedules almost completely


It might be free but it's costing BOXING. Its time people started expressing their dissatisfaction with this crappy model before it monopolizes - that is the only thing that we can do to try and change it.

[The Big Dunn]

SO fans of boxing are complaining about ring walks, fighter music, entourages and ring girls. WTF?

Do you guys like boxing or just watching big fights because there is a difference between the two.

Do you guys judge other sports on the cheerleaders and introductions of the athletes?

There are definitely improvements needed but I would think those have to do with the quality of the fight, not the lead up to it.

[Deevel916]

When I think of ring walks I always think of this one! The song along with Tyson's intimidation factor give you the chills...

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