Comments Thread For: Sugar Ray Leonard, Albert on Boxing's Rise in Popularity

[Fetta]

I don't need to be told anything I watch tons of boxing and when I am on boxing websites with other die hard boxing fans and nobody knows who these opponents are that's all I need to know the fight sucks and it's a mismatch. But it's funny seeing you haymon dyck riders try to convince people that they should be watching these mismatches hoping for that blind squirrel finding a nut. Luckily fans are not buying and it's why the PBC TV ratings are tanking.

Like i said you need to be told who is good

thank you for proving my point

[pugil1st]

Luckily fans are not buying and it's why the PBC TV ratings are tanking.

Luckily?? There it is. You are no true boxing fan. You want these fights on TV to fail because of Haymon. I'm not guaranteed that every NFL game I sit down to watch will be good but I watch them because I love football. I also love boxing and people like you aren't on my level. You're a troll.

[HURTFEELINGS]

You do realize that for casual fans, Golovkin himself was a nobody? He has spent the last few years building up his name in the American boxing world. Now that he is well known to the point where fighters in the UK and Ward in the US are dropping his name to get media attention, I'm sure his competition will take a turn for the better. After all... they can no longer use the excuse that no one has heard of GGG or that he is not a draw or fan favourite now, can they?

Isnt this the EXCUSE lil g fanboys and his team use against fighting Ward? Why yes it is, lol

[bigdunny1]

no decision has been set so NO im not wrong.

And last i checked the lawsuits have yet to prevent the fights so im happy But i cans see you are preparing to put on that coveted NSB lawyer hat now and thats to bad. Your NSB accountant hat is better and almost as good as your NSB TV executive hat.

No you said the lawsuit would get thrown out of court and sent to arbitrator. But again you were wrong just like you were wrong a year ago when you said Golden Boy's lawsuit against Haymon and Schaefer would get thrown out and nothing would happen. Golden Boy forced a 8 figure settlement from Haymon. And this latest lawsuit has already won a huge battle and all but ensures Haymon will have to open up his books to the public. Hell you got fighters last week in interviews saying I want to thank my promoter Al Haymon. Meanwhile in court Haymon is arguing that he is NOT a promoter just an "adviser" because we all know it's illegal to be both a manager and promoter. Even his own fighters can't keep the lie straight. You think that won't be used against him in court? We already know Golden Boy used a paycheck a fighter posted on twitter after his fight which shows the check was written out Haymon. Only promoters pay the fighters not managers.

Between 2 100mill lawsuits and government/courts digging into the Haymon's books and whether or not he is serving as manager and promoter and the tanking PBC TV ratings it's getting hard to convince yourself that this PBC experiment has been a success.

[bigdunny1]

Luckily?? There it is. You are no true boxing fan. You want these fights on TV to fail because of Haymon. I'm not guaranteed that every NFL game I sit down to watch will be good but I watch them because I love football. I also love boxing and people like you aren't on my level. You're a troll.

I don't watch Football or Boxing if the matchup is trash. I'll root for PBC when I see a reason too. I haven't yet. Haymon could put Wilder in the ring with your mothers and you would still watch and defend it. You damn right it makes me happy when boxing fans prove they know their shyt and refuse to watch crap like this.

[hhs661]

No you said the lawsuit would get thrown out of court and sent to arbitrator. But again you were wrong just like you were wrong a year ago when you said Golden Boy's lawsuit against Haymon and Schaefer would get thrown out and nothing would happen. Golden Boy forced a 8 figure settlement from Haymon. And this latest lawsuit has already won a huge battle and all but ensures Haymon will have to open up his books to the public. Hell you got fighters last week in interviews saying I want to thank my promoter Al Haymon. Meanwhile in court Haymon is arguing that he is NOT a promoter just an "adviser" because we all know it's illegal to be both a manager and promoter. Even his own fighters can't keep the lie straight. You think that won't be used against him in court? We already know Golden Boy used a paycheck a fighter posted on twitter after his fight which shows the check was written out Haymon. Only promoters pay the fighters not managers.

Between 2 100mill lawsuits and government/courts digging into the Haymon's books and whether or not he is serving as manager and promoter and the tanking PBC TV ratings it's getting hard to convince yourself that this PBC experiment has been a success.

bro, you joined in March of 2015. When did you and him have this conversation a year ago?

[Barcham]

You do realize that you can enjoy One without ****ting on the other. I bet you Huck vs Glowacki ends up being a better fight that Lemieux vs GGG.

Member since 2009 with only 8 posts? C'mon Mods... do your job and get this obvious alt off the board.

[Scipio2009]

Showtime and quality? I haven't even heard of some the fighters they have had on Showtime lately. And I believe its because the match makers for PBC are horrible. But you are free to believe its quality and regardless how many fights they force feed us I don't believe for the most part that they have been quality fights. But what is even more important is that many of my friends who are casual boxing fans agree with me.

Stiverne-Wilder and Chavez-Fonfara were both quality fights on quality cards (I enjoyed Wilder-Molina and Mayweather-Berto, but for arguments sake, lets keep to the obvious ones). On top of that Broner-Allahkverdiev looks to be a good fight, the Jacobs-Quillin tripleheader is looking promising, Showtime is starting to pick up some of these international fights (Brook-Chaves being the first), and there are enough other good fights, with PBC running out of prime dates, that Showtime will likely end up with some of these by default (Thurman-Porter, the rumored Garcia-Guerrero fight, Khan's next fight, Provodnikov's first Showtime fight, the Degale-Bute tripleheader, a possible Chavez Jr fight, etc). Beyond that, PBC being an outlet has allowed for Showtime to vastly expand their ShoBox schedule, with triple and quadruple headers, though with prospects, of competitive fights.

What quality fights have been on HBO this year? Golovkin crushing another 20:1 can doesn't count. HBO has pushed out mismatch after mismatch, yet folks refuse to acknowledge that reality.

[brownplayboy310]

Yes Because I'm the only one who has the Matthysee fight as a Fight of the year candidate. It's not like just about every other major boxing website either has it number one or in their top 2? Oh right they do. Guerrero vs Martinez a fight in front of like 15 people that had no significance in the division in a fight that is only famous because how dreadful and far Guerrero has fallen. Over 2 of the best fighters at 140 slugging it out in front of a huge audience instead of 15 people in the empty stub hub?

A bunch of people voted for Hitler, doesn't mean that he was a good leader. A bunch of people bought Backstreet Boy albums, doesn't mean it was good music. You're a follower and an idiot who has to be told by other wiser men what is right and wrong.

Mathysse whipped Provodnikovs but for 12 rounds, it was entertaining but NOT a FOTY. People only consider it a FOTY because going into it so many people were saying it would be a FOTY candidate and since there was action (albeit one sided with the occasional big shot from Ruslan) they stuck by their guns since they didn't want to be wrong.

[brownplayboy310]

Member since 2009 with only 8 posts? C'mon Mods... do your job and get this obvious alt off the board.

Sorry to burst your bubble but I'm not an alt. just a person with a healthy social life that doesn't use Internet forums as my primary form of social interaction