Comments Thread For: Report: Spence-Porter Set For September 28 At Staples Center

[siablo14]

A coward for not doing a sig bet? ok bro. Noticed you said no gay crap but were silent on the blasphemy. Not at all surprised

Yo! Lemme tell you straight.
My Father in heaven too great to be bother by the words of those whose lives he can give and take.

[KTFOKING]

They should hound them about testing so we don’t get the same issue we got with thurman vs pacquiao.

There will be VADA testing for the fight.

[SplitSecond]

There will be VADA testing for the fight.

I want to know when it starts though.

[Scipio2009]

Over the past 20 years, Mexican Independence Day along with Cinco de Mayo has become synonymous with "Big Fight Weekend". Sorta like how Christmas, originally intended to commemorate Jesus's birthday, morphed into a shopping fest and St. Patrick's Day, having something to do with driving snakes out of Ireland, turned into a huge excuse to get chitfaced.

Simply put, not all boxing fans who tune into the fights that weekend are Mexican and not all Mexican FIGHT FANS only care about Mexican fighters. Would be a brilliant counter-programming move if Spence-Porter was held that weekend and Spence gained a legion of Mexican fans with a dominant "Mexican Style" performance.

It's not Cinco De Mayo (which changes every year); it's Kentucky Derby weekend (first Saturday of every May).

The horse race, usually a big baseball game (NY-BOS, SF-LA, Cubs-Sox, etc), and a big fight.

Mexican Independence day boxing is a recent enough occurrence that it's not on autopilot yet.

Spence-Porter does absolutely fine on its own

[Scipio2009]

Who cares about those shows, though? There could be a million free shows on network TV, but if none of is it quality, then it won't move the needle. Anything worth watching is being put behind a major pay wall.

Who cares? The generation of folks who missed out on following boxing from the late 80's on, who could barely name 4 fighters.

That's who cares.

Good, bad or otherwise, the general public has been basically given a 4-year run to be re-introduced to the sport that is professional boxing.

And, it turns out, the general audience actually has interest in boxing.

After basically three years of getting fights on ESPN/NBC/CBS/Spike/FOX, etc, the general audience is getting a guaranteed 22 shows on FOX/FS1 (3 and 4-fight cards), that far more often than not feature competitive fights.

Cry about not getting all of the name fighters for free all you want; if that's all you want to see, that sounds like a personal problem to me.

Wilder-Fury in December 2018, Pacquiao-Broner, Spence-Garcia, Thurman-Pacquiao, Spence-Porter, and Wilder-Ortiz 2 in November 2019 is the presumptive PPV calendar for PBC.

Are you honestly going to argue that nothing else was good to watch going on this year?

[Scipio2009]

all those fights/shows are pure sewage! every other fight is ppv pbc is crap they even through mismatches like mikey vs spence on ppv. Lol it's insulting to the fans!

Lara-Castano, Hurd-Williams, Wilder-Breazeale, Peterson-Lipinets, Porter-Ugas, Uzcategui-Plant were pure crap?

And that's just looking at main events