Nice battle.
Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
Is it crazy/annoying to anyone else that PPV fights today wouldn't have even made HBO/Showtime prior to 2000? Think about it: Barrera vs Morales, Barrera vs Hamed, Barrera vs Pac, Hagler vs Hearns, Oscar vs Mosely...etc., were available on cable networks. Manny vs Vargas?!?!? Garcia vs Thurman?!?!? Canelo vs any bum he decides to extend his charade against next?!?!? THOSE are PPV worthy fights today? What a joke.
Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
Exactly, ppv is ideal for the culmination of the build of a fighter. The network features them on 'regular' network shows, sometimes featuring proposed opponents and then leads to a big fight. How we'd like it or how it should be anyway. Kovalev vs Ward should be the norm. More often than not now a promoter just uses them as vehicle to feature fighters in heavily favored bouts. Honestly Manny v Vargas is decent..not great but decent. It just doesn't belong near a PPV. Crawford-Postol good fight. Terrible ppv. Canelo-Smith was probably one of the worst ppv cards can remember.
Think the only two that may have been PPV were Oscar vs Shane and MAB vs Morales 3. Hell, MAB vs McKinney was on the first HBO boxing after dark and that was light years better than Canelo vs Smith. Hamed vs Kelley was HBO as well. In the early nineties we paid 10 bucks to watch Evander decision Foreman, and 20 to watch Riddick beat Evander for the title. Lennox Lewis blew out Razor Ruddock Halloween night on HBO. Talk about changing for the worse. Pretty sure Meldrick Taylor vs JCC 1 was on HBO as well. I'm getting depressed now...
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