Some decent fights on the horizon.

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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.

Think all of those were ppv also or close circuit with Hagler-Hearns. Huge difference compared to Canelo's traveling farce is most if not all were respected as competitive fights prior to the opening bell. They've just turned it into a feeding troff.

True but ppv should be the exception not the rule and now bad fights are classed as ppv because of the greed which will kill the sport.

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.