Comments Thread For: Jose Ramirez: O'Connor is Tough, Can Take Some Punches

[Corelone]

O'Connor, O'Campo, oh no.

[fanofbox]

Ticket sales show that no one cares about this fight. You can pick your seat in the arena for this fight. Ramirez seems like a good guy, but it's obvious TR doesn't have a lot of faith in the guy.

[ShoulderRoll]

He ducked Prograis hard.

[IMDAZED]

is o'connor the dude that got put to sleep with 1 punch a while back with all that irish gear on?

Yup. And he’ll be going to sleep in this one

[Force Boxing]

Should have fought Prograis or entered the WBSS like the other top 140 fighters. Prograis entered it knowing that Ramirez and Arum would delay a purse bid as much as possible in order to avoid the fight. Just like the other Ramirez, he's gonna be fighting cans at home and insist that he wants to fight the tournament winner.

Prograis team turned down Ramirez fight in the end...took the easier path to more money...have to get your info right

[Force Boxing]

I can't wait for Prograis to expose Ramirez. His last fight against Imam convinced Prograis that he'll finish Ramirez off in the earlier rounds. Not even the switch to Roberto Garcia will change the outcome when we get that fight next year

Are you kidding lol Imam is widely considered the hardest puncher in the division and Ramirez walked right through them and smashed Imam...Ramirez fights at an increadible pace with power and something Prograis has never seen

[filup79]

Prograis team turned down Ramirez fight in the end...took the easier path to more money...have to get your info right

They had no choice as Arum never wanted the fight and was going to delay the purse bid as long as he could. I think you mean Ramirez took the easier path to keep his title as long as he could. This is the same thing Arum is doing with Zurdo Ramirez, they rather fight bums then enter the WBSS. Prograis wanted to enter the tournament instead of getting dragged on by Arum. Arum wanted to marinate the fight saying he needs to build his name.

[Force Boxing]

Ticket sales show that no one cares about this fight. You can pick your seat in the arena for this fight. Ramirez seems like a good guy, but it's obvious TR doesn't have a lot of faith in the guy.

Ok let me school y oui u a little on the business of boxing.

No promoters will make the big match ups before the money there...
ESPN pays TR to put the fight on...they pay based on rating and the name recognition/fan base of the fighters....
These fights can be worth a lot more a year from now...the sancutionong body like WBC get paid a % of both fighters purse....so...

Everyone both sides, ESPN, TR and the WBC want to build the fights up a bit more.

Ramirez would get paid 2.5 times what Prograis would and you know his side will not accept that and he can't bring enough fans to justify more. So they turned fight dow and went for an easier path to more money...

Nothing to do with faith! Or who anyone thinks is better, just about not wasting the best fights when the $$ isnt the re. It's all business everyone in the pro boxing world we all know this and you do as well