Comments Thread For: CBS "Final Four" Segment, With Wilder, Averages 13.77M Viewers

[Curt Henning]

bottom line...

common sense logic=wilder being interviewed in front of 14 mil is good for his career

sour, bitter, loser logic="nobody tuned in to see wilder"

[KillaCamNZ]

Should just rename the title "Basketball fans subjected to Wilder interview".

[REdrUm0351]

Thankgod they added the click bait title. Instead of having a healthy discussion on cross promotion and the many meaningful ways we can push boxing into the MSM light we can instead argue over the atrocious headline and what it tried to convey.

[Boxing_1013]

Holyfield did numbers with Lewis as well as Douglas, and some other ones I believe. But they were all stars and black fighters have been the biggest stars in boxin. No group is doing ppv like them.

And like you said, the game has changed. You can become a star later in your prime. Look at Mayweather, he wasn't a ppv guy until 28 or 29 same age as Spence. Wilder is a little later, but heavies prime later, and he is the best condtioned heavy in boxing so his career can last just as long as the other guys.

Right, and Pac did numbers with people not named Floyd. But Floyd made Manny into a star/rival, just as Tyson enhanced the careers of the guys he fought/was rumored to fight - Lewis Douglas Holyfield.

It is fair to say that Spence or Wilder can get that same type of bump in popularity that Pac and the Tyson foes received. I just don't think it is the same situation for them these days and I can't personally see any scenario where either guy becomes a big PPV guy. There are really only two guys like that (excluding Manny), Canelo and Joshua, and I don't see Spence and Wilder coming close to that.

It wasn't a slight on black boxers when I said the only black star was Floyd - he is just the only modern star. I know Hearns and Hagler and SRL were stars and made money. But just as the model for them was different back then, and then morphed into the PPV model for Floyd, I think the game is still changing.

And with all the pirating/illegal streaming I just don't think these guys will make it big banking on high priced PPVs, when I don't think they are close to being PPV guys right now.

Imo the streaming services are a smart move for these guys especially if they are going to pay the money like DAZN was offering to Wilder.

We can argue all day about semantics but my main point and only point really is that while this is good exposure for Wilder, I think he may end up costing himself a lot of money if he thinks he will soon be a PPV guy. I am not really a fan of his but these guys work too hard and too dangerously to pass up on a payday when it is there.

[Boxing_1013]

Should just rename the title "Basketball fans subjected to Wilder interview".

Lol that's funny I don't care who ya are

[Noelanthony]

once again..... you somehow think up, and are then ****** enough to commit to print..... the dumbest, most pointless, rubbish

you are like that other fool..... clearly no real feel - or understanding - for this game..... you just run with the same ol fanboy dribble that the casuals run with

go on, tell us that story again..... about how your son who twerks in the mirror is trying to poison you

oh lordie, I don't think I have ever heard shlt that dumb ..... I think a lot of human beings become more ****** just being around you LMAO

Oh lordie!!!! What are you trying to say?You are from New Zealand right ? LMAO . You are trying too hard and not winning. You know it and I do but keep trying

[Noelanthony]

like I said..... you are just an idiot

an idiot who jumps to the same ol silly conclusions, and laps up the same ******ed rubbish, as the rest of the casuals

*****phile detected....... please clear off. How many times do you need to be embarrassed? I don’t like posters that suck up to me and grovel. You did that. Shall I remind you or you are going to be a good boy and shut up..... keep your distance please *****

[Boxing_1013]

you..... talk like an outsider looking in

you have..... no real feel for this game whatsoever

and..... you sound like you are 16yo

grow the fk up kid, you REEK of silly casual fan..... which is why you talk so much nonsense

like bread said a couple of weeks back..... most of the stuff you guys write is truly dreadful

no feel for the game whatsoever lol

Man it is so weird that out of the two of us, you think you're the one who keeps it real and is objective about boxing. Like I thought you knew you were just a troll and a joke. I have never seen you post a comment before, out of the 1000 comments you have probably littered across my screen, where my reaction was 'that's a good take, good point by Time.'

I have never seen you give a take that was against your guy. You're just a tribal fanboy. I like Loma and think he is still no1 pfp but it was probably even before he stopped Linares. Like I don't give a sh.it if my guy wins because that's how life goes sometimes.

My whole self-worth, unlike you, doesn't ride on every interaction between my guy and another guy, so I can keep it real and keep it logical, whereas you stay very emotional and have this self-hating need to prop your guys up even when they don't deserve it. But keep being you man you have to live your shi.tty self-hating life not me.

I stopped reading Bread's columns about a year ago once I read some awful take he had on something so maybe that's where you take your talking points from.

Btw - since you keep it so real - why don't you tell us all your opinion on when Ward dropped his belt rather than face Dirrell? You kill GGG for similar (and less egregious) stuff. So let's see you keep it real and kill Ward for this big dawg.

https://www.mlive.com/sports/flint/2..._interest.html

[john l]

Wilder keeps getting knocksdowns, knockouts, winning and making exciting fights and there’s nothing stopping him from becoming the superstar that the USA desperately needs even if it’s brief!

Big time move to help him get bigger!

Deciding to stay a free agent and cashing in on big PPV with AJ looks better after every bit of face time he gets on that level.Now he just has to make sure he don't sleep on Breazeale because he is better then most give him credit.He is big has decent skills and a REAL big heart.

[john l]

Man it is so weird that out of the two of us, you think you're the one who keeps it real and is objective about boxing. Like I thought you knew you were just a troll and a joke. I have never seen you post a comment before, out of the 1000 comments you have probably littered across my screen, where my reaction was 'that's a good take, good point by Time.'

I have never seen you give a take that was against your guy. You're just a tribal fanboy. I like Loma and think he is still no1 pfp but it was probably even before he stopped Linares. Like I don't give a sh.it if my guy wins because that's how life goes sometimes.

My whole self-worth, unlike you, doesn't ride on every interaction between my guy and another guy, so I can keep it real and keep it logical, whereas you stay very emotional and have this self-hating need to prop your guys up even when they don't deserve it. But keep being you man you have to live your shi.tty self-hating life not me.

I stopped reading Bread's columns about a year ago once I read some awful take he had on something so maybe that's where you take your talking points from.

Btw - since you keep it so real - why don't you tell us all your opinion on when Ward dropped his belt rather than face Dirrell? You kill GGG for similar (and less egregious) stuff. So let's see you keep it real and kill Ward for this big dawg.

https://www.mlive.com/sports/flint/2..._interest.html

I have no idea what you all are going at it about but just caught last line.You don't really think Ward was ducking Anthony Dirrell do you?1st he never did vacate he just quit fighting and was in court 2nd he is friends with the Dirrell obv going to Olympics with his brother.Not trying to get involved but Dirrell don't beat him once outta 10 he has NO style advantage in any way and don't have one hitter quitter.