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

[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.