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

[Master]

Hbo doesn't even do full 24-7s now which were pretty good.

They seem to have made an exception for Ginger.

First time I watched 24/7 was for Pac Man v Margarito and just fell into the hype. I really thought Antonio was going to be too big and strong for the smaller Manny. The fight lived up to the hype and it was a masterclass destruction job by Manny although in the middle of the fight Margarito lands a vicious body shot that nearly split Pac Man in two pieces. I think Manny decided never to venture up to that weight again.

Watching 24/7 now you can read between the lines and see the hype not from what is said but from what is not shown. A lot of Floyd's was on other things outside of the fight.

[Beanz]

Here in the UK there can not have been many more more disappointing fights than Cleverly/ Bellew. Boxer against alleged Puncher. Intense enmity. Damp Squib.


Personally I was hugely disappointed in Quigg/Frampton. Even though I was rooting for Quigg I thought that the only way for Frampton to pull it off would have been by spectacular stoppage but even he turned in quite a routine dull performance (well breaking Quiggs jaw early on I suppose is quite impressive).

[TAPugil]

Under Hyped billed as "Bombs Away" Jackson vs McCellan. Intro they showed bombs dropping from planes. Couldn't have been more true to an arena that wasn't half full.
Bowe vs Gonzalez. Two Big Men And Jorge trash talked up a good fight. Didn't put one up though.

[El Kabong]

Under Hyped billed as "Bombs Away" Jackson vs McCellan. Intro they showed bombs dropping from planes. Couldn't have been more true to an arena that wasn't half full.
Bowe vs Gonzalez. Two Big Men And Jorge trash talked up a good fight. Didn't put one up though.

I always craved Bowe vs Tyson or Bowe vs Shannon Briggs, or Tyson vs Shannon Briggs all guys are from the same neighborhood, they all have different personalities, they all could punch, and they all could take a shot pretty good....the timing for those fights never worked out, but MAN you talk about a GREAT Madison Square Garden fight environment, just an old fashioned neighborhood brawl to be....




Oh any of those would have been lovely even if no title at all was on the line....and I think that clinches it for me, when a fight is about something more than a belt, if it's personal, if PRIDE is the biggest thing on the table that's what TRUE rivalries are built on and you can go back in history and point those out Ali-Frazier...who fucking cares about a title it's fuckin Ali-Frazier....Louis-Schmelling II WHAT?!?!?! The WORLD needed to be shown who was the best title shmitle there was more to it than that. Leonard-Duran....Ray Leonard "i want to thank Roberto for giving me this opportunity to have this fight"...Duran *spits at Ray* insults Ray's wife....that's not theatrics or it didn't friggin seem like it it felt real.