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There are 8 months left in the year and there are already 4 pay-per-views scheduled. I was updating the calendar today and started to put these pieces together. Let's look at the rest of the year.
April 9 Pacquiao-Bradley III
Okay so naturally this is on PPV. Manny Pacquiao is the currently the biggest star in boxing. This one deserves the price tag (especially given the undercard.)
May 7 Canelo-Khan
Canelo inherits the May and September Mayweather days because... he's Mexican and they are Mexican holidays. Despite the mismatch, it's two big names and it's going to be entertaining for about 5 rounds. Worth it.
June 18 Cotto-TBA (Kirkland)
This is where things start to get a little dicey. Cotto is coming off a loss. I'm not sure if Kirkland is speaking in coherent sentences yet. This card will NOT feature Felix Verdejo (who has his own headlining HBO card coming the following week.) I don't imagine this one doing well.
July 23 Crawford-TBA (likely Postol)
I'm willing to pay for this one. The 1 and 2 super lightweights fighting is fine by me. I don't care what the undercard is.
This is what is proposed thus far, but let's project the rest of the year.
August
Nothing. This is typically the time of the year StubHub has it's annual ritualistic blood bath fight of the year contender on some undercard.
September 10 or 17 Canelo-Lemieux
Ah, where did Lemieux come from? Let's first say that there's no way Canelo isn't fighting on PPV anymore until he loses. Next, Lemieux's fight with James De La Rosa was cancelled this past weekend. Why? Weight? Sure. Maybe. But why is that immediately we hear he's being worked into the Canelo-Khan undercard? An undercard that only has 2 fights currently scheduled. My guess is that it will be a set-up fight to sell Canelo-Lemieux. That Golovkin fight ain't coming till next year at the earliest. This is a worst case scenario. The best case scenario is that this is the Golovkin fight, but it seems pretty unlikely.
Late October Golovkin-Saunders
This is going to be a tough sell, but I think they justify it by saying it's a legitimate unification fight between two fighters who avoid nobody. Saunders has the highlights of dropping Lee around and Golovkin is Golovkin.
November Bradley-Vargas II (small percentage it's Pacquiao-Vargas)
Jessie Vargas is coming off the biggest win of his career and he's ready for a rematch with Bradley. Now, you may be asking how do they put Bradley in a PPV coming off a loss? He ain't losing. Either he wins this fairly or Bob Arum smile he wins this fairly.
December Cotto-TBA (Probably Andy Lee)
This is assuming that they don't make Cotto-Lee in June (which I think is far smarter.) Either way, Cotto's December fight probably makes it to PPV coming off of a nice win over James Kirkland in June.
So it looks like we have a PPV in 7 or the next 8 months. If we average the price out to $60 bucks for each one, it adds up to $420 for the rest of the year. That's a steep price.
What do you think of this tentative and projected schedule?
Are you paying for all of them?
April 9 Pacquiao-Bradley III
Okay so naturally this is on PPV. Manny Pacquiao is the currently the biggest star in boxing. This one deserves the price tag (especially given the undercard.)
May 7 Canelo-Khan
Canelo inherits the May and September Mayweather days because... he's Mexican and they are Mexican holidays. Despite the mismatch, it's two big names and it's going to be entertaining for about 5 rounds. Worth it.
June 18 Cotto-TBA (Kirkland)
This is where things start to get a little dicey. Cotto is coming off a loss. I'm not sure if Kirkland is speaking in coherent sentences yet. This card will NOT feature Felix Verdejo (who has his own headlining HBO card coming the following week.) I don't imagine this one doing well.
July 23 Crawford-TBA (likely Postol)
I'm willing to pay for this one. The 1 and 2 super lightweights fighting is fine by me. I don't care what the undercard is.
This is what is proposed thus far, but let's project the rest of the year.
August
Nothing. This is typically the time of the year StubHub has it's annual ritualistic blood bath fight of the year contender on some undercard.
September 10 or 17 Canelo-Lemieux
Ah, where did Lemieux come from? Let's first say that there's no way Canelo isn't fighting on PPV anymore until he loses. Next, Lemieux's fight with James De La Rosa was cancelled this past weekend. Why? Weight? Sure. Maybe. But why is that immediately we hear he's being worked into the Canelo-Khan undercard? An undercard that only has 2 fights currently scheduled. My guess is that it will be a set-up fight to sell Canelo-Lemieux. That Golovkin fight ain't coming till next year at the earliest. This is a worst case scenario. The best case scenario is that this is the Golovkin fight, but it seems pretty unlikely.
Late October Golovkin-Saunders
This is going to be a tough sell, but I think they justify it by saying it's a legitimate unification fight between two fighters who avoid nobody. Saunders has the highlights of dropping Lee around and Golovkin is Golovkin.
November Bradley-Vargas II (small percentage it's Pacquiao-Vargas)
Jessie Vargas is coming off the biggest win of his career and he's ready for a rematch with Bradley. Now, you may be asking how do they put Bradley in a PPV coming off a loss? He ain't losing. Either he wins this fairly or Bob Arum smile he wins this fairly.
December Cotto-TBA (Probably Andy Lee)
This is assuming that they don't make Cotto-Lee in June (which I think is far smarter.) Either way, Cotto's December fight probably makes it to PPV coming off of a nice win over James Kirkland in June.
So it looks like we have a PPV in 7 or the next 8 months. If we average the price out to $60 bucks for each one, it adds up to $420 for the rest of the year. That's a steep price.
What do you think of this tentative and projected schedule?
Are you paying for all of them?
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