The participants will be Victor Ortiz, Marcos Maidiana, Devon Alexander, and Amir Khan. Rather than taking place over a couple years it will be more like the middleweight tournament they had a few years ago and only be a few months. Although contracts haven't been signed each fighter's promoter has made a verbal agreement. For more info check out the story: http://www.fighthype.com/pages/content6083.html
Hbo should have made this a 8 man tournament and include Bradley, Torres, Holt and Urango ( and maybe switch one of the participant for Cambell ), now that would have been something. Could you imagine what a war Torres vs Maidan/Urango would be ( or maidana vs Urango for that matter )
I've seen Khan fight, and while talented, he isn't too fun to watch, heard Alexander was the same type of fighter, 2 stinker fighter out of 4 is too much, with my suggested 8 man tourney, you'd be guaranteed to have some war ( how could they not include Urango, one of the most exciting fighter out there )
Tournament? Look at the smart boys from HBO to Frank Warren and Oscar De La Hoya. This ain´t no tournament. What they´ll do is this!!! 1. Amir Khan is the WBA champion, but Frank Warren is scared shitless to let him anywhere near interim champion Marcos Maidana. 2. Devon Alexander is the WBC champion, and can´t punch worth a shit. Basically he´s the American Khan. 3. Khan will fight Alexander in hopes of becoming a unified titelholder (and what a sad day that will be). 4. Then Khan will become Super champion, and Maidana will be elevated to WBA regular champion, never to fight Khan. 5. Now Ortiz will have his rematch with Maidana, in hopes of becoming the WBA regular champion. 6. The tournament final will magically break down due to contract disputes between G and Frank Warren, but HBO suddenly has two new champions.
Maybe in terms of officiality, but Bradley isn't oozing with so much talent and excitement that I'm pissed off at him not being included. Of course that's just my opinion.
Bradley has more than earned his right to be involved though. They shouldn't compare it to the middleweight tournament if there isn't going to be an undisputed champion by the end of it.
Now that is a great point. It appears their only reasoning for doing this is to counter all the positive excitement that Showtime generated when they first announced their tournament. I know once Showtime did that tournament and the follow up constant accolades they kept getting would lead to HBO following up with their own tournament.
Wow. Way to step up HBO. Seriously, once again Showtime, with the smaller budget.........blows away the efforts of HBO. What a weak response by Greenburg and Co. :shit:
Hey, it's a small step in the right direction. HBO's tournament will still look like an amateur in comparison to the Super six tournament though. Having 3 fights to have "one champion" isn't really a tournament. It's more like title eliminators.
They're not the best 4 light welterweights, but i'm still all for it as long as it isn't marketed like that. It should give us some decent fights....Khan would be stepping up. What is happening at 168 is great, but we can't overlook how difficult it is to put something on like that. Once it is clear that a format like that is a success, then it could become more common.
So they're attempting to get four young junior welterweights in the ring for a few fights? The bastards.
Wow boxingtalk just interviewed Alexander and not only did he nor the interviewer mention the tournament but it felt like Alexander didn't even know about it as he spoke about his future fights in an uncertain kind of way. :dunno:
