Great undercard for floyd jr/dlh

[mikE]

from fightnews:
"In addition to De La Hoya-Mayweather, the 54.95 pay-per-view telecast will also feature two other fights, featherweight Rocky Juarez against Jose Hernandez and super bantamweights Rey Bautista against Sergio Medina."

I mean, come the fuck on. You have the chance to expose millions of potential new fans to some of your fighters and you give us this? Add to this that we all know that the main event could be uneventful and the potential to leave people with a bad taste in their mouths after spending $55 bucks at home (or a lot more in person) is just too great.

It's not like DLH doesn't have some good fighters, either. This is just poor management. Give Don King a main event like this and 90% of the time he floods the undercard with meaningful, interesting title fights. Hell, he would have untelevised title fights or the old teaser fight shown on network tv earlier in the day to get the card started.

All the eggs are in one basket here. I hope it works out.

[Arben]

You're preaching to the choir.

[joony]

juarez-hernandez might turn out to be a war.

[Nobleart]

That's awful!


You're right, this would be the perfect oppurtunity to showcase some good fights and bring some new fans into the sport.

They should also have at least 4-5 fights for an event like this. Stupid short term greedy fucks. I can blame De La Hoya for this one. He's going to be making so much goddamn money on this fight he could afford to short change himself a Mill or two and put on a really awesome card.

[dsimon3387]

That's awful!


You're right, this would be the perfect oppurtunity to showcase some good fights and bring some new fans into the sport.

They should also have at least 4-5 fights for an event like this. Stupid short term greedy fucks. I can blame De La Hoya for this one. He's going to be making so much goddamn money on this fight he could afford to short change himself a Mill or two and put on a really awesome card.

dsimon writes:

Instead we get a bunch of jockeys with gloves on... Fuck all. I guess in this manner the main event becomes like the heavyweights.

[Father of Muzse]

To watch in HD, isn't it $64.99?

[jarhead]

I have been thinking the same thing since the undercard came out. This would have been an ideal card to put a tune up fight for Mosely on. Build a bit of drama for a Mosely-Mayweather fight. But you are right, Golden Boy has plenty of fighters to put a class A undercard together. This one is just

[pug]

There is no reason that they couldnt have added something like Guzman-Katisdis as the co main with the rest.

[slystaff]

No one is going to like to hear this, but with a fight of this magnitude...does the undercard really matter?

[Hanzy]

A StingerKarl vs Steve_Dave on the undercard would rock! We'd ALL buy that for sure.:clap:

[Hanzy]

No one is going to like to hear this, but with a fight of this magnitude...does the undercard really matter?

For marketing the sport of boxing to potential new young fans, probably so. Especially considering the fact that DLH/Floyd could be a major bust. There's a great chance DLH/Mayweather will be a joke and thus hurting the sport even moreso. But that's just my stance.

[pug]

No one is going to like to hear this, but with a fight of this magnitude...does the undercard really matter?

It does when we are trying to bring new fans to the sport, DLH-Mayweather could possibly be boring as hell, the mainstream fans should have at least something exciting to keep their interest just in case the main event does flop, which with Floyd can happen.

[slystaff]

It does when we are trying to bring new fans to the sport, DLH-Mayweather could possibly be boring as hell, the mainstream fans should have at least something exciting to keep their interest just in case the main event does flop, which with Floyd can happen.

How many times has Floyd had a boring fight?

Floyd-Burton was exciting
Floyd-Judah was entertaining
Floyd-NDou was GREAT
Floyd-Castillo 1 was exciting
Floyd-Chavez was exciting
Floyd-Soza was exciting
Floyd-Gatti was exciting, even though it was grossy one-sided (not Floyd's fault)
Floyd-Corrales (see above)

It's only Castillo 2 and Baldomir that were relatively unexciting...but a GREAT fighter always has an unexciting (risk free) fight every now and then....simply because they can.

Again Oscar..TRUST ME....it will not be boring..

[Nobleart]

No one is going to like to hear this, but with a fight of this magnitude...does the undercard really matter?

If my cable bill is going to double that month. Hell yeah!

[Nobleart]

How many times has Floyd had a boring fight?

Floyd-Burton was exciting
Floyd-Judah was entertaining
Floyd-NDou was GREAT
Floyd-Castillo 1 was exciting
Floyd-Chavez was exciting
Floyd-Soza was exciting
Floyd-Gatti was exciting, even though it was grossy one-sided (not Floyd's fault)
Floyd-Corrales (see above)

It's only Castillo 2 and Baldomir that were relatively unexciting...but a GREAT fighter always has an unexciting (risk free) fight every now and then....simply because they can.

Again Oscar..TRUST ME....it will not be boring..

Would you have paid 60 bucks to see any of those, unless you were in the arena.