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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.
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...
Now you pay $100 for Floyd v Manny, 5 years past its sell by date.