Comments Thread For: Leo Santa Cruz vs. Abner Mares Rematch Purse Bid on July 21

[p4ptbe]

better than lomachenco next fight

way better than lomachenkos last fight and next fight....

[p4ptbe]

mares is no longer the same mares.
Lsc should be winning this fight again.
He should go for a ko this time.
Which is doable.

mares just dominated that killer jesus cuellar a few months ago so he is getting better!

[IMDAZED]

How is PBC still in business? Their money ran out two years ago.

[Gentblue]

I will be rooting for Leo big time. i think he should win this one a little easier than the 1st one.

I just hope he fights russell or frampton after this.

He's an openly admitted Daddy's boy he ain't fighting any threats

[The Big Dunn]

He's an openly admitted Daddy's boy he ain't fighting any threats

I don't know. I think with the new landscape (espn and GBP on espn) PBC is going to be forced to make the best fights when they can. Leo/Russell IMO needs to happen if he defeats Mares.

[rickJen]

mares just dominated that killer jesus cuellar a few months ago so he is getting better!

And compare that with his previous fights up to Ponce de leon.
The guy can't trade anymore without hugging and moving around like Lara.
Good for his survival, but I doubt he'll last with bigger and more aggressive guys like LSC.
It all started when he got dismantled unceremoniously by Gonzales.

[paulf]

Now that is one pointless rematch. Mares has nothing to trouble Santa Cruz.

[Eff Pandas]

yes but the fighters and their management have some say so as well.

I think purse bids are one of the best ways to come up with a true market value of a fight. And if there has been one issue brought up over & over & over with PBC its been that they spend too much on purses so I think this is fine & likely is to find the PBC promoter who can best make this fight as profitable as possible.

Randomly boxing probably needs more purse bids. The only problem is to get to a purse bid is you gotta get an abc group mandating a fight thus forcing a purse bid. I'd like to see fighters &/or their managers &/or teams decide they wanna fight each other & then ask for purse bids to put on their fight. I think in a lot of ways boxing would work better like that. Although fighters &/or their teams would need to engage other fighters more & actually find if not scout out potential opponents more then they probably do currently.

[Gentblue]

I don't know. I think with the new landscape (espn and GBP on espn) PBC is going to be forced to make the best fights when they can. Leo/Russell IMO needs to happen if he defeats Mares.

Remember what happened when Oscar tried to make him fight Rigo.

[rickJen]

Now that is one pointless rematch. Mares has nothing to trouble Santa Cruz.

Exactly. He was struggling so hard in the first fight. It's a pitiful sight.
He's small, frail, lacked power, clinched excessively just trying to survive.
He gets KOed this time.

Waste of time and money for Sho.

They should be making Andrade vs Lara, instead.