Stayed up all night watching that crap. It was a pretty crappy card. 5 fights that went down like this: Gusmyr Perdomo wins decison over Broderick Antone - This was a real stinker. Antone looked like a kid in a street fight too scared to punch. So what you got was the occasional 1 punch haymaker thrown and Perdomo deserved the win just for not being scared. Thank god it was only 8 rds. Angelo Santana scored a 1 rd technical knockout over Broderick Antoine - Santana looks like he might be pretty good against a guy who was talented but green. Strange ending as Antoine's corner stopped the fight really early after only 1 KD and a fight he wasn't getting beat up much. Francisco Palacios won a convincing unanimous decision over Joel Godfrey - Another boring fight where Palacios hit Godfrey with everything but the kitchen sink but couldn't hurt the guy and Godfrey was content to mostly stand there and cover up. Luckily another 8 rd'r. Palacios has some good skills but he's feather fisted. Joey Hernandez won a disputed decision over 40 yr old Elco Garcia - This was kind of boring but intriging. Local kid Hernandez won a stinker over Garcia and wound up getting booed by his own fans. Personally I had no problem with how he fought since he was in with a freaking giant who looked like he was 2 weight classes higher than Hernandez. You could also tell that Garcia hit like a freaking mack truck and Hernandez' punches couldn't dent him. So if Joey had to run, hold and box to pull out a close decision against a guy with huge advantages in height, reach, strength and durability, then I really couldn't blame him. Guillermo Jones KO's Mike Marrone in 6 - Not a bad fight although Marrone could have let his hands go more. Marrone fought much like Rocky Balboa in the way he blocked punches with his face. He was just as tough too, but eventually Jones was just too much as he dropped Marrone twice in the fight and got the win when Marrone's corner wisely stopped the massacre. Jones looked good in the win, but being 40 you have to wonder how much he has left. Jones also had dunlap.
Exactly, wasn't PPV at all. Was on WealthTV (tho I don;t know a single person who actually has the channel) and on their website. First of what King hopes to be a regular series. First card featured a reported sold-out crowd. Agreed that it was a shitty card... but gives his guys fights, which these days is a nice change of pace for anyone under contract w/ DKP. Tons of fighters in his stable lucky to fight more than once a year (or in the case of Guillermo Jones, once every decade)
Luckily we had someone at ringside. Last week I was stuck watching and reporting on four cards at roughly the same time. Had no interest in this show and was so glad to hear that someone requested a last minute credential. I also missed most of that piece of shit Azteca America card from Star Boxing - a series on a network geared mostly towards Mexicans (though I suppose Hispanics in general), and last night's main event featured two fat white heavyweights.
What is the next WealthTV show? I thought I saw it listed, I thought it looked much better than this card (although any card with a world title fight is decent, imo), and I thought it was in December. My Google skills are letting me down and I can't find it now.
That was my mistake calling it a PPV. I'm on deployment in Iraq and the military has it's own channels over here and we tend to get most PPV's (MMA & boxing) for free. I just assumed it was a PPV because of the amount of fighters.
Gotcha. Yeah, King tends to overload for any first-time entry, and then shows the true spirit of the series soon thereafter.
