Don't bring 'paid subscription channel' into the conversation. It doesn't belong. It's like arguing that the problem with today's boxing is that there aren't enough 15 rounders. All tv is paid subscription channels these days and everyone has those channels available to them.
Yes, and it was an HBO fight, something that MOST PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE the vast majority of "there's more boxing on TV than ever before" (if that is even true) comes in the form of FoxSports ballroom boxing with horrible fighters Honestly, dude, you live in a fantasy world where boxing is still a big-time sport with a big-time talent pool... it's total nonsense
from fightnews.com “I was surprise to hear the news about Matthysse pulling out. But I was more surprised to have many some people pointing fingers at me as it was my fault or if I had the obligation to replace Matthysse. I don’t know where that comes from. When I went through the same as Morales it was gonna be impossible to some name would replace Guerrero on one-week notice. Now it’s the same. We got a phone call from Golden Boy Promotions asking if we were interested yet no financial offer was even made,†Maidana continues. “To be honest my team thought it was not serious to keep jumping on planes from one part of the world to the other to take such an important fight on a 7-day notice in the first place. On the other hand, I don’t wanna let down my Argentinean fans who have always supported me and don’t see me fight live often,†Maidana added.
If you don't have HBO, then you aren't a boxing fan. Most boxing fans do have HBO. The ones who don't cannot afford internet, either. Boxing is a big-time sport in the world and the talent pool is still very large. It's down in the US.
WBC probably paid Matthysse to pull out so they could hand Morales his "title" on silver platter. They are now replacing him, and it will still be for a title. Expect a soft touch and Morales to get his 4th "world title"
Guess what, idiot, you didn't NEED HBO before You don't think that makes a difference??? You honestly believe that if the NFL were to put all it's games on HBO and the playoff games on PPV that it wouldn't suffer an ENORMOUS decline in popularity??? Are you that clueless? Guess what, the U.S. was hands down the largest supplier of talent in the world for 100 years of every single division above Featherweight... now, the US doesn't have participation anymore to supply jack shit... yet, it's your contention that the rest of the world which has had the same levels of participation for DECADES have suddenly produced all these terrific fighters to fill that void??? Are you that retarded?? If every country in South America stopped playing football (soccer) you don't think that would have an ENORMOUS impact on the quality of the sport?? Furthermore, it's not just that the largest supplier of world-class boxers has stopped producing fighters, it's the quality of current World-Class boxers themselves... I can only think that you know nothing about footwork, counterpunching, feinting, defense, all of it if you are looking at the best of today's young fighters form around the world and saying to yourself "oh yeah, this guy is a real technician, he really knows how to box" ... Sergio Martinez is the best middlewieght in the world right now and his entire offense consists of a wild swing and a clinch... his defense is to jump out of the way as if fired upon with a gun... and he's one of the BETTER ONES... he can do that stuff because the guys he is fighting are as unskilled as he is, so they don't even have the know-how to take advantage of his considerable flaws... they do the same shit... tentative, scared, and LEAP! and CLINCH! and jump back when the other guy sort of feints... Carlos Monzon would sodomize Sergio Martinez and then throw him from a balcony
Like I said before, just fucking give him the title It's Morales, he deserves it. He shouldn't even have to get his hands dirty bashing some scrub.
You are a dim bulb. Since when is boxing as popular as nfl football? 1940? The rest of the world is replacing the talent pool that has evaporated from the us. From the communist countries (eastern bloc, cuba) who now go pro who never did in the past to China who never had boxing before to countries like England now stepping it up... Romanticize the fighters you grew up with and criticize the current fighters. You can't do this in objective sports or sporting events so the fact that athletes in every sport of this nature have improved isn't relevant. Keep changing the argument instead of completing the last argument. You're tiresome because you're not up to it.
Oh, I see, I said it was more popular or as popular as football? when, exactly? you lack the reading comprehension to understand the point being made anyway, romanticise the guys I grew up with?? I grew up with Ezzard Charles? I was a teen during the 90s, not the 40s or the 70s (to me the two best decades for boxing) English boxing isn't any better than it was Chris Eubank would be a top 10 p4p guy right now, he was nowhere near that when he actually fought
according to the gelatinous-necked espn boxing scribe, Pablo Cesar Cano will be facing morales. anyone seen him? http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=352193&cat=boxer
