Comments Thread For: Estrada: Me and Roman Gonzalez Deserve $1 Million Each

[-Kev-]

Who gives a **** about that ****e Kev? This is undoubtedly one of the very best fights in boxing, in terms of action, and in terms of two of the best champions in boxing facing each other to unify a division and find a true champion.

This is exactly what boxing is lacking in every way across the board and people are talking about marketing, ppv, numbers, banking...

Have you seen Carbajal/Gonzalez? Explain how that is not 'marketable'?

Because they're small? You'll rarely ever see a greater, more brutal fight and anyone fan would die to see that ****. It's a consensus as one of the greatest fights ever. Frankly, you're way more likely to get an epic, fan friendly war in this fight than in any other more 'marketable' fight. If people don't even give it the time of day, then it's no wonder all our superfights suck. People don't think as fans.

All these super fights that get way too much money spent on them, and the huge majority turn out as complete, massive ****ing duds, yet even fans are *****ing and moaning and acting like business partners and investors for a fight that has already produced one brilliant fight, has even more riding on it now, and is undoubtedly going to produce again.

These are the exact type of fights that need to be pushed, because they are simply ****ing good. There won't be any clinching, there won't be any holding, there won't be any stamina issues (see both Cotto and Canelo), and there won't be any mauling, headbutting, scrappy, smothering tactics...you'll see a high level, offensive fight between two of the best stylists in the game today.

If fighters fighting in rematches and trilogies were rewarded based on action, or potential action, Corrales vs Castillo should have gotten around $100,000,000 to split, and even more. And Gatti-Ward should have gotten what Mayweather and Pacquiao got in May 2 2015.

But it doesn't work that way.

Whether that fight will be a potentially all action brutal fight, or the best underground boxing fight (Nobody outside of the most underground hardcore fans knows who these guys is), it does not warrant a high payday. Things don't work that way, no matter how emotional people get about these guys paydays, emotion does not get people in a business any money, numbers do.

The people who know about Roman Gonzalez and Juan Francisco Estrada are pretty much the equivalent of sewer **** in boxing. That's what we are, the sewer **** of boxing, when it comes to fanatics. We are way underground boxing fans, way underground. We talk about boxing like everyday. That is not the norm. Gonzalez vs Estrada rivalry is an afterthought to even the most hardcore fans. You log out of Boxingscene and you do not think about Gonzalez vs Estrada. I think about Ward, Kovalev, Canelo, Pacquiao, Cotto, Thurman, Golovkin, etc. Roman Gonzalez is an afterthought, Juan Francisco Estrada is not even a thought. This guy Gonzalez is the #1 P4P the same year he KO'ed a guy who was 38-29 or some bull**** like that, and regularly has fought guys with 8-10+ losses. That's not going to catch any sensible fans attention, at all. No one is getting fooled. No one cares about Estrada annihilating Hernan Marquez.

[-Kev-]

And i'm not acting like an investor or promoter or whatever, i'm speaking the truth. What I am saying is the truth. I am sayng why they are not getting the payday that they think they "deserve".

And the fights that were duds action wise, were duds between fighters who a lot of people pay money to watch, and pay big money to go watch live, and bring a lot of money to Casinos, Hotels, airports. So the money they ask for is warranted.

Fans wanting Gonzalez-Estrada to get high paydays sound more emotional rather than rational. I understand that hardcore fans refuse to see thebehind the scenes things on why certain fights don't happen, but is such an important part of boxing, that a hardcore boxing fans ignoring these things is just being an ignorant, uneducated caveman who just happens to like boxing.