Comments Thread For: Devon Alexander vs. Victor Ortiz To Air on FOX From El Paso

[IMDAZED]

Could be a time buy as well. If its a test run I think then they are doing themselves a disservice by putting on Ortiz Alexander instead of Thurman Vargas or Garcia Rios. Pbc will always give their best fights to Showtime and even those arent that good. Pbc suck all around and I think Fox might just he doing this for leverage in negotiations with Ufc

Lots of speculation. We'll see.

[Shadoww702]

And when the telecast is over, SHO's telecast will start with even bigger fights. Never ceases to amaze me how much people like to complain. None of this is PPV. The FOX show is basically a free extra undercard before the SHO event.

Who comes on a boxing site complaining about boxing???

[Sir_Didymus]

I'll second what others have been saying. Both these fighters took risks in their careers. Bradley, Mathysse, Mayweather, both lost to Khan one in the pros one in the amateurs, Porter, Berto...these are all solid challenges both boxers faced and deserve more respect than some pathetic boxers who have held titles recently with the most minimal risks ever seen i.e Kell Brook who seriously has the most bum filled boxing record the sport will ever see prior to cashing in off his mediocrity.

It would be nice to see Alexander get one more decent payday and seems to have recaptured some of that form pre Khan. Good luck to both.

[Zaroku]

Nice crossroads fight. Alexander would do well to score the KO.

Yeah, agreed. Let the best man win.

[N/A]

Cool, we simply disagree. You feel it's a solid main event. I don't.

Solid main event of a PPV? No. Solid main event of HBO World Championship or Showtime Championship Boxing? No. But how can you harshly judge a fight being given away for free as a lead in for bigger fights on Showtime that night?

Fox (which to me is a very valuable slot for boxing)

It's not a big budget show. No matter how valuable the slot is "to you," the Showtime show has a bigger budget and therefore bigger fights.

should give the opportunity to someone other than Ortiz. Especially when pbc has a long list of fighters.

The opportunity to lose to Alexander? Who should the "opportunity" have been given to?

[N/A]

these are what fox shows are reduced to so as pbc finishes up their time buys. Youre right though. It’s better than most unimas or espn2 cards

The time buys are already over.

[killakali]

The time buys are already over.

no they aren’t. They still owe fox two more. Why do you think this low budget fight is happening? U didn’t think fox bought this and asked for this did u????

[Shadoww702]

Devon stops this one early, think Ortiz is shot to s*** and Devon was awesome before he became an alien because of that tonic Mr Burns gave him.

Lol. Thats what happens when you play for a Nuclear Power Plant Softball Team....I can see old Gigantism Head winning early

[Shadoww702]

no they aren’t. They still owe fox two more. Why do you think this low budget fight is happening? U didn’t think fox bought this and asked for this did u????

It will still do decent numbers. Probably between 500-800k

[SkillspayBills]

Methinks the winner of this fight will get a title shot............probably against Spence.