Quote Originally Posted by boozeboxer
So not the hometown guy in reference to geography but the home town guy in terms of 'at the fight' popularity??




Yeah I think so...Here is an example....I was covering a local card in the area for a little rinky dink promotion company...but hey they were local and you have to support your hometown right?

This company just signed Brandon Mitchem he is a nobody buy like I said it was a small compan and to them the fact he was a semi finalist and was cut before the final pick of fighters to go on the Contender show was their build up of him
He fights a guy named Keith Sonley in his first fight...He had been retired for like 3 yrs....He narrowly beats the guy....Mitchem is the start now even though his record is like 23-5 or something like it....No complaints about the decision could have gone either way...
A few months later he fights again on a local card against Sonley who is like 4-13 or something close to it....Sonley drops the guy and pretty much gives him a boxing lesson in a 4 rdr......yet because Mitchem is the promotion companys guy with the build up he gets the win....Mitchem was not from the area Sonley was but he was not known due to the record he has ect......
See what I am saying it is just the promotion company and promoters the judges want to keep happy....Screw the promoter and you don't work!!!!!