Comments Thread For: Pacquiao-Thurman Deal Can Be Done Quick, Says Gibbons

[JWHardin]

Lucas won a regular belt off of a dive. That Asian guy took a dive and broner is a BUM!!

Idk if Lucas is that much better than Lopez I really don't.

Didn't Berto KO Lopez a year or two back?

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LOL at Broner being a bum.... far from it. But Lopez and Matthyse are even skill wise IMO.

What elite fighter has broner beaten? I don't give me that four weight title holders sht. He wasn't beaten one hall of famer and his best win was against Paulie.

Run down his resume for me, of course it's going to be at lightweight when he avoided Ricky burns.

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Didn't Berto KO Lopez a year or two back?

I am not here to defend Lopez, however I will defend him over Lucas who is basically on the same level who lost to a old Judah and washed and sub par Alexander during his prime.

[strykr619]

What elite fighter has broner beaten? I don't give me that four weight title holders sht. He wasn't beaten one hall of famer and his best win was against Paulie.

Run down his resume for me, of course it's going to be at lightweight when he avoided Ricky burns.

See if you called him a B list fighter etc i agree, but a bum thou nah that's a little far IMO.

[Golden Boi 360]

I can see Thurman catching Pacquiao lunging in.

[SweetPbfAli]

Didn't Berto KO Lopez a year or two back?

He did but he was honestly getting outboxed until he caught him lol.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Didn't Berto KO Lopez a year or two back?

Sure he did.

[Dle]

Whereas Romero couldn’t follow the ‘Floyd’ blueprint, Thurman should execute it beautifully bc Thurman does have the tools & artillary to make PAC look his age.

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See if you called him a B list fighter etc i agree, but a bum thou nah that's a little far IMO.

Can we agree on C list? I view Porter as a B/B+ ( gate keeper, lower level belt holder) and he beat Broner.

Vargas to me is C+/ B- and Broner drew with him.

I still think that Broner fight with Paulie was closer to a draw but oh well.

So can we agree with a C? Maybe C+ for overall career ?

Now at lightweight broner was his best.

[mapleleaf27]

I'm 50+ and I remember boxing on Wide World of Sports on ABC! That was a long time ago! Top Rank on ESPN is the equivalent of SHOBOX, but that's not what i'm talking about:

March 6. 2015

But it has been decades since there has been any regularly scheduled boxing on NBC -- or on any broadcast network, for that matter. NBC hasn't aired a prime-time title fight since Holmes' heavyweight defense against Carl "The Truth" Williams in 1985. It hasn't aired a title fight of any kind since 1987, when Vinny Pazienza won a lightweight belt from Greg Haugen by controversial 15-round decision. Since then, NBC has aired fights quite sporadically, including the finale of the first season of "The Contender" reality series in 2005 and a few Saturday afternoon cards promoted by Main Events in the past couple of years.

But times, they are a-changing.
Boxing -- big-time boxing at that -- returns to network prime time Saturday night (NBC, 8:30 ET) when welterweight titlist Keith Thurman (24-0, 21 KOs) makes his first defense against Robert Guerrero (32-2-1, 18 KOs) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The fight headlines the first of 20 cards this year on NBC and NBCSN on adviser/manager Al Haymon's "Premier Boxing Champions" series. Eleven cards will be on NBC (five on Saturday nights, six on Saturday afternoons) and nine will be on NBCSN...

Haymon, who does not speak to the media, has purchased the time on the network -- as well as time on CBS (on Saturday afternoons) and multiple basic cable networks -- as he seeks to change the paradigm of the boxing business and keep his stable of more than 180 fighters active. The goal is to eventually entice sponsors and networks beyond HBO and Showtime to open their checkbooks and pay serious money for boxing once they see the strong viewership figures Haymon undoubtedly hopes the PBC series will generate.

https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/12431606/boxing-returns-network-tv-premier-boxing-champions-series

March 6, 2015

While there have been one-off fights on free-to-air TV through the years – a Mike Tyson comeback bout on Fox in 1995, Bernard Hopkins-Glen Johnson on CBS in 1997 – Saturday’s PBC premiere represents the sport’s most committed attempt in three decades to breaking down the paywall it’s built around itself.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/mar/06/with-boxings-return-to-prime-time-network-tv-al-haymon-makes-his-move

You get it now?

i get it man, thanks for all the links. Its a good time to be a boxing fan, seems there are good fights available to watch somewhere almost every week. cheers,