Marinating Is Pointless

[Lester Tutor]

Karma. Blame it all on industry and B sides not accepting a 155 bout when anyone from 154-168 is easy. Surely Alvarez isn't Floyd, but the biggest call the shots and play the game. K2 doesn't care tbh.

[sicko]

"Marinating" is what Promoters want to do when they know their fighter is not ready

[otrocubiche]

It worked perfectly for juanma-gamboa, right?

[Tony Trick-Pony]

"Marinating" is what Promoters want to do when they know their fighter is not ready

Such BS. I'm ready for this thing to go down if it's going to.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Life is short. Get the best in there ASAP. Or it just might never happen.

[soul_survivor]

This whole marinating process is pointless. Canelo-GGG will not be any bigger now or ever and even it was, who gives a damn? Canelo is a not a huge, cross over star and neither is Golovkin. A year from now, they still won't be.

Kovalev-Ward is in the same boat. These guys are not cross over either. In the case of supposed marinating, this only works when you have names that cross over but none of these guys have that. I'd say Golovkin has the most potential.

Now, people say what about Pacquiao-Mayweather? Both WERE cross over stars and even then, that died on the vine anyway. By the time it happened, the money was great. It would have been greater even two or three years sooner. What does this mean?

Make the fights NOW!

Marinating is and always will be a BS cop out to waste time and hide a promoter's fighter from the inevitable arse whooping and somehow more time will build more interest. It's ridiculous! How is more time going to make any difference? They will be no bigger next year than they are now. This is all pointless stalling.

You want boxing to do better?

Put these fights together this year in September and November. If they produce the fireworks we think, then have rematches and then more money and more cross over appeal. If you really want to help the sport out, promote the hell out of them and put them on free TV on a Monday night, like in the 70s. Everyone would be watching that and boxing would damn sure be on the map again. Then folks would pay for the pay per view.

I agree to a certain extent.

Marinating is ok if both guys are cleaning up their division, unifying belts and then fighting each other for all that's on offer...while still at or near their best. 5 years or contract disputes are bs.

When fights that need to happen now don't happen for 18+ months, then there's a problem. One or both fighter don't want it. Sad reality of the modern sport.