Thread: Broner-Maidana is no longer PPV.. GBP's Christmas present

Originally Posted by Hulk

Originally Posted by Rantcatrat

I'm not that interested in Broner-Maidana. With all the big fights GB has around that weight for Broner, it seems like they are feeding Maidana too him.

Maidanas performance against Alexander doesn't inspire much confidence against Broner, but then again look how EASY Broner was to hit against Paulie.

Maidana has real power and a great will. He is a live underdog.

LOL, the main thing here is he was fighting Paulie. No need to defend yourself everytime he hits you its like a pillow hitting your face. Broner is so slow and robotic. Hes a tough guy but dont see him lasting past 7 or 8

Originally Posted by Silkeyjoe

Originally Posted by Hulk

Originally Posted by Rantcatrat

I'm not that interested in Broner-Maidana. With all the big fights GB has around that weight for Broner, it seems like they are feeding Maidana too him.

Maidanas performance against Alexander doesn't inspire much confidence against Broner, but then again look how EASY Broner was to hit against Paulie.

Maidana has real power and a great will. He is a live underdog.

LOL, the main thing here is he was fighting Paulie. No need to defend yourself everytime he hits you its like a pillow hitting your face. Broner is so slow and robotic. Hes a tough guy but dont see him lasting past 7 or 8

I know you mean Maidana is slow n robotic. Anyway, Gavin Rees, Ponce De Leon, n those carefully selected other opponents tagged Broner a lot as well.

Originally Posted by Hulk

Originally Posted by Silkeyjoe

Originally Posted by Hulk

Originally Posted by Rantcatrat

I'm not that interested in Broner-Maidana. With all the big fights GB has around that weight for Broner, it seems like they are feeding Maidana too him.

Maidanas performance against Alexander doesn't inspire much confidence against Broner, but then again look how EASY Broner was to hit against Paulie.

Maidana has real power and a great will. He is a live underdog.

LOL, the main thing here is he was fighting Paulie. No need to defend yourself everytime he hits you its like a pillow hitting your face. Broner is so slow and robotic. Hes a tough guy but dont see him lasting past 7 or 8

I know you mean Maidana is slow n robotic. Anyway, Gavin Rees, Ponce De Leon, n those carefully selected other opponents tagged Broner a lot as well.

Yeah I just don't see this elusiveness in broner and he reminds me much more of a berto than floyd, crazy quick hands but lacking in other aspects. maidana ate shots from victor, amir, devon and a few others and they couldn't put him away, doubt broner hits as hard as them at 147, fuck it I can see maidana grinding out a late ko cause he's gona be there for twelve.

Originally Posted by armin

Originally Posted by Hulk

Originally Posted by Silkeyjoe

Originally Posted by Hulk

Originally Posted by Rantcatrat

I'm not that interested in Broner-Maidana. With all the big fights GB has around that weight for Broner, it seems like they are feeding Maidana too him.

Maidanas performance against Alexander doesn't inspire much confidence against Broner, but then again look how EASY Broner was to hit against Paulie.

Maidana has real power and a great will. He is a live underdog.

LOL, the main thing here is he was fighting Paulie. No need to defend yourself everytime he hits you its like a pillow hitting your face. Broner is so slow and robotic. Hes a tough guy but dont see him lasting past 7 or 8

I know you mean Maidana is slow n robotic. Anyway, Gavin Rees, Ponce De Leon, n those carefully selected other opponents tagged Broner a lot as well.

Yeah I just don't see this elusiveness in broner and he reminds me much more of a berto than floyd, crazy quick hands but lacking in other aspects. maidana ate shots from victor, amir, devon and a few others and they couldn't put him away, doubt broner hits as hard as them at 147, fuck it I can see maidana grinding out a late ko cause he's gona be there for twelve.

Just for the record I would be delighted to eat crow here. I hope you guys are right because I love Maidana and hate Broner. But I think his style suits Broner perfectly

Broner was talking all of that stuff about only fighting on ppv from here on in. GTFOOH!!!

Good deal, I wouldn't think of buying that on PPV but it's still a nice fight. Broners going to look good here imo, could even be a DeMarco type showing. He's not going to have to look for Maidana, he'll be able to get set and let his hands go to the body. The guy reminds me vaguely of Canelo as much as anyone else in truth, maybe I'm nuts there but he's not great on his feet and needs to plant them to get off, kind of punches in a shell etc. Still don't see Maidana winning this though, Broner can hurt him and will tee off.

They're saying they only pulled the PPV becausae it's so close to Christmas and wouldn't sell and that Broner will be PPV from next year on. Alvarez has three fight dates for next year and they're all going to be PPV. There are going to be a lot of PPV fights on Showtime next year.

That makes sense, kind of lame that they would declare a guy "PPV only" before he's really proven he can sell them, but whatever.
I could see buying Broner-Garcia if it had a really good undercard, but thats about it, and they aren't going to make that fight.

Even if they do 2-300 000 buys per event, and they should do that easy with Alvarez, that's a lot of money at fifty dollars a pop. They can pay guys like Alvarez and Broner much more than they'd earn as the main event on regular cable and actually make some money as well. I'm guessing this is a new business model by Showtime/GBP.

something that many people have forgotten is that maidana has become a little more controlled in his last few fights and he uses his speed more. i dont think that he will necessarily come flying in from the opening bell.

Originally Posted by p4pking

Good deal, I wouldn't think of buying that on PPV but it's still a nice fight. Broners going to look good here imo, could even be a DeMarco type showing. He's not going to have to look for Maidana, he'll be able to get set and let his hands go to the body. The guy reminds me vaguely of Canelo as much as anyone else in truth, maybe I'm nuts there but he's not great on his feet and needs to plant them to get off, kind of punches in a shell etc. Still don't see Maidana winning this though, Broner can hurt him and will tee off.

I agree with you. It's definitely a watchable fight, but it wasn't a PPV fight. Garcia-Broner might be a PPV fight, that is, if we're looking for a PPV fight for Broner.

Maidana's Achilles Heel is well-known, he's susceptible to speed and body punches. Broner will target the body early in the fight with his speed and stop Maidana. Boxers can beat Broner, but Maidana isn't a boxer. That's why this fight wasn't worth PPV.

Originally Posted by Silkeyjoe

Originally Posted by armin

Originally Posted by Hulk

Originally Posted by Silkeyjoe

Originally Posted by Hulk

Originally Posted by Rantcatrat

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Just for the record I would be delighted to eat crow here. I hope you guys are right because I love Maidana and hate Broner. But I think his style suits Broner perfectly

I agree with @Silkeyjoe

Originally Posted by Master

This means they could not sell it as a ppv fight so making out they are doing us a favour. Cunts.

Yep. Boxing fans are mugs in that respect. Makes you wonder how we allowed this to happen. They televised lots of great boxing for free in the 60's, 70's and 80's. Now it's a special treat we have to pay extra for. Boxing is a minor sport now and Rupert Murdoch and friends are all massive cunts.

Only way Broner loses is if he's not conditioned properly. He's really out of shape right now and if he doesn't come in tip top shape, Broner could take em into deep waters.

But he's only 24 so he might not have weight issues..

It's true, Broner looks fat and greasy still and this fight isn't far off. No idea why any athlete would let themselves go like that even if they can get away with it, and it tells you he didn't get any kind of wake up call from the Malignaggi fight. He's still got a lot of things he could improve on but thats not going to happen if he views training as an 8 week fat camp.

nowt wrong with maidanas display against alexander, alexander held all the way through the fight and should have been dq'd