Pre-fight hype: When it's warranted and when it's not

[TitoFan]

Spicoli, that reminds me of Roy Jones v Trinidad hype which was bad and they used the military for that too.

A fight way past its sell by date.

Now that you mention Trinidad, you jogged my memory.

Remember the Tito/ Hopkins presser in PR, when Hopkins threw the flag on the ground. That sh-t was intense. Real hype for that one.

It certainly got MY blood boiling back then.

Fans with an emotional type of backing of a fighter can get sucked in by promotional stuff like that.

[TitoFan]

Good discussion and examples.

Just want to add though..... in the past we've had threads on super-hyped fights that disappointed, or met/exceeded expectations....... and fights not very much hyped which turned out to be super fights.

But this thread actually adds another variant..... the fights whose pre-fight hype was unwarranted because everyone should've known it wasn't going to be competitive, be it due to huge size difference, or huge difference in skill set.

A warranted super-hyped fight that ends up disappointing is not the fans or the matchmaker's fault. The hype was warranted because it was competitive on paper.

Whereas an unwarranted super-hyped fight that hardcore fans know won't be competitive has a little more blame to go around.