Comments Thread For: Provodnikov's Promoter Explains Decision To Go Showtime

[Mitchell Kane]

Good! Now Bob can stop messing around and make Postol-Crawford. No excuses or other opponents

Yeah, the best outcome is that fight gets made AND Provodnikov gets some big fights.

But we'll see, if he ends up losing early this might not end up amounting to much.

[Cinci Champ]

no its the same moline who stood there for 12 roudns against broner and didn't throw any punches

i highly doubt that broner just a bad style matchup for him but provo is not it will be a war

[Foreign Soil]

Pretty funny in that past thread how your usual horrible NSB posters were being vocal about Ruslan's manager simply stating Arum never sent an offer and was just using Ruslan's name for Crawford. Considering Ruslan is now going to a different network in hopes of getting fights, the verdict is a slam dunk.

[Shadoww702]

Just because he joins Showtime doesn't mean Haymon will risk and start lining up his top fighters against the Russian. He'll most likely get the Molinas, Diazes, Soto Karass, Kamegai, Bundu, Collazo, list is endless.

Broner vs Provo is far from happening.

Haymon disposables like Porter and Alexander are more likely after the Russian goes through the Molinas, Diazes.... That would take ten years.

You do know that Haymon is letting his boy Leo fight Hampton in a few months??? Now go back to sleep hater....it's gonna be official here soon.

[jimmy27]

The promoter sounds dumb mentioning the fact that a FMJr. fight could be on the horizon for Ruslan.

[ThomasJK]

Good for Ruslan!!!! I hope this decision is a good move for hm. Win or lose, how can anyone not like him. He's a warrior.

[firstborn]

no its the same moline who stood there for 12 roudns against broner and didn't throw any punches

More like 7 rounds but I get your point. Still can't be overlooked though, he can present a problem for Provo if he's on his game that night.

[Combat Talk Radio]

The cupbaord is bare at 140 for Adrien Broner (who I think has far tougher fight with Ashley Theophane than people are figuring now), so the doubt of a Provodnikov fight is misguided; you add that Ruslan's style is what it is (tough as nails, come-forward, face-first brawler) and I doubt that Broner would be all that terrified of the matchup either. Whether Broner would actually beat Provodnikov is left for fight night.

A Floyd fight is a dream (with a Garcia fight being highly unlikely), but, from the sounds of things, Showtime has been wanting to be in the 'Ruslan Provodnikov business' for some time now, leaving the impression that they want to see him fight (while also opening the option for the rest of Banner Promotions' fighters on Showtime).

Almost everything you said is false.

I say again, if the Broner that fought Khabib shows up against Ashley, Ashley gets KO'd. If it goes to the cards because the wrong Broner shows up, big bro Floyd might very well screw Broner with the judges.

But Broner would be absolutely petrified to face Ruslan. Not because he thinks he'd get hurt, but because he wouldn't be able to keep Ruslan off of him - and judges would give it to Provod.

And I disagree that Showtime really care about Ruslan beyond gatekeeper status. They might have briefly after seeing him go to war with Bradley, but that was less about Ruslan and more about Bradley trying to prove something.

I still want to see Broner/Bradley before Bradley retires.

[Scipio2009]

Almost everything you said is false.

I say again, if the Broner that fought Khabib shows up against Ashley, Ashley gets KO'd. If it goes to the cards because the wrong Broner shows up, big bro Floyd might very well screw Broner with the judges.

But Broner would be absolutely petrified to face Ruslan. Not because he thinks he'd get hurt, but because he wouldn't be able to keep Ruslan off of him - and judges would give it to Provod.

And I disagree that Showtime really care about Ruslan beyond gatekeeper status. They might have briefly after seeing him go to war with Bradley, but that was less about Ruslan and more about Bradley trying to prove something.

I still want to see Broner/Bradley before Bradley retires.

we'll see April 1st