Broner vs. Rees/Sakio Bika vs. Nikola Sjekloca on HBO Saturday - fight/chat thread

[TigerFan]

HBO to air Bika-Sjekloca bout - Dan Rafael Blog - ESPN

[TigerFan]

HBO to air Bika-Sjekloca bout - Dan Rafael Blog - ESPN

Excerpt from that article

HBO will unveil a makeover to its "World Championship Boxing" theme music, graphics, logo and lighting. (Also, the iconic theme to its "Boxing After Dark" series will be no more when HBO makes a change to that, too, for the next edition of that show.)

Thoughts on that?

[IamInuit]

The stage is set for you Broner haters. He's huge like this is some big surprise. Tell me at what weight area did he fight in earlier in his career? And who of all these threats to Broner have offered him a fight? I can wait..... This fodder of discrediting an opponent because you hate his challenge gets a little long in the tooth. Many of you make a federal case of the Ponce fight then who’s to say it doesn’t happen here?

[Spicoli]

Hey, its fights. I'm in. Didn't realize this card was coming really as its been a hectic week. Bika is always fun. I'm not so much pissing on the Broner "showcase" aka a day at the batting cages as I am Demetrius f'kn Hopkins being on yet another major HBO card Go figure...pays to have connections. Broner shut his mouth and went to work against DeMarco...I respected that display. That said hes still a cheap gimmick and concerned more about being a reality star. HBO will def spoon feed him and hope to continue the Mayweather like horseshit. Honestly his punchlines are not even that good, he needs a new writer, and they sure as Hell shouldn't give him anymore on air time in between big fights to "rap" in the ring. That was horrible.

[Mars_ax]

Hey, its fights. I'm in. Didn't realize this card was coming really as its been a hectic week. Bika is always fun. I'm not so much pissing on the Broner "showcase" aka a day at the batting cages as I am Demetrius f'kn Hopkins being on yet another major HBO card Go figure...pays to have connections. Broner shut his mouth and went to work against DeMarco...I respected that display. That said hes still a cheap gimmick and concerned more about being a reality star. HBO will def spoon feed him and hope to continue the Mayweather like horseshit. Honestly his punchlines are not even that good, he needs a new writer, and they sure as Hell shouldn't give him anymore on air time in between big fights to "rap" in the ring. That was horrible.

@Spicoli -
I plan on watching the 2 undercard fights, and changing channels when the main event comes on. The only thing i'm interested in seeing is whether or not Boner makes the Lightweight limit for this fight, I bet he doesn't and this won't be a title fight Saturday night.
Check the weigh-in results friday.

[Mars_ax]

These fights start tomorrow night @9:00 PM ET on HBO here in the States/Canada, and @ around 2:00 AM Sunday for you lot in the UK/Europe.

At Atlantic City, N.J. (HBO): Adrien Broner vs. Gavin Rees, 12 rounds, for Broner's WBC lightweight title; Sakio Bika vs. Nikola Sjekloca, 12 rounds, WBC super middleweight eliminator; Demetrius Hopkins vs. Charles Whittaker, 12 rounds, junior middleweights.

cheers