Comments Thread For: Badou Jack vs. James DeGale Unification Set For January 14

[MC Hammer]

LOL wtf...this fight was supposed to happen this year, that was the plan LAST year and now we're going to get a run of the mill unification between 2 guys who still have a lot to prove, 18 months after these guys won titles and were supposed to collide.

What happened to all the new dates PBC were supposed to get for the remainder of this year? It's a joke. Pathetic. ****.

Spoken like a man who needs to complain. If its so late and terrible don't watch

[jonnyc420]

I'd say DeGale gets the win here but Jack has been improving. Probably best fighter of the TMT stable. Great to hear of all the great upcoming fights.

[MC Hammer]

These are some very good fights. Yet this seems to help confirm PBC was a hoax. Fights like Jack-Degale and Charlo-Williams would be perfect on network tv. So free t.v. gets Garcia-bum of the month and Showtime gets 7 title fights. Awesome. Only thing that would be better is to make all these fights PPV. With Spence being after the Olympic men's basketball final, Haymon had a chance to really expand boxing's fanbase. He has blown it. If all PBC has left is a possible Thurman-Garcia clash, then why did they waste so much putting fights on NBC Sports, FS1, and Bounce-tv that featured no one better than a mediocre "prospect"??? These fights being on PBC would be great news. All these being on Showtime points to boxing being reserved for those who can afford cable or satellite AND extra premium channels. Poor people like boxing too! Poor people watch the NBA and NFL in such numbers that everyone involved is swimming in $100 bills. They did that to boxing when boxing was on network tv too. If Haymon was serious about making boxing return to that level of popularity, he would have announced these fights on PBC. How about a primetime slot on network tv featuring Charlo-Williams and Jack-Degale? Give Showtime Wilder-The Reptile, Wilder-Arreola, and Garcia-Vargas and give PBC fights that could actually make boxing more popular. That might actually move boxing back to regular television instead of premium channels and PPV bs.

Any Wilder fight would be good for PBC because he has name recognition. These guys don't. Advertisers won't buy them like they will anything Wilder, Broner or Garcia. This fight will cost some money due to belts, but probably won't make it back due to ads. What PBC needs to do is put on KO style fights where prospects build their resumes with hard KO's then sell the fights when they are at really stiff or ppv worthy opposition to SHO

[Chrismart]

About time :ROCK:

Great fight, a real 50/50 IMO.
I'm rooting for DeGale, but slightly leaning towards Jack as a prediction.

[RespekonMyName]

I can't believe people are actually arguing about Showtime/HBO. I never thought we'd see the day where boxing fans became network fans.

It's strange. I pay for both, so I want each one to put on good fights.

[Larry the boss]

nice.................

[Larry the boss]

LOL wtf...this fight was supposed to happen this year, that was the plan LAST year and now we're going to get a run of the mill unification between 2 guys who still have a lot to prove, 18 months after these guys won titles and were supposed to collide.

What happened to all the new dates PBC were supposed to get for the remainder of this year? It's a joke. Pathetic. ****.

and you are complaining why?

[Larry the boss]

stfu

If you wana yes boss a guy who don't give a **** about thats fine but dont think Im like you fool. They said last year that once DeGale was through with Bute and Jack was through with his fight, they would fight each other in 2016.

Since then all we've gotten is DeGale fighting a journeyman and Jack fighting Bute (for no reason apparently).

If you're cool with that, I'm happy for you but this is a run of the mill unification between 2 so called champions who have done very little to prove their credence in a division which once boasted Froch, Kessler and Ward.

For such a run of the mill fight to take 18 months or more is a joke. The fact that Thurman/Porter already went through the same process is even worse.

But you enjoy this so called great fight.

you sound like a real b1tch son....stop crying because Haymon is giving us good fights..just today they have announced several damn good match ups and you are on here sounding like a h0e on her period