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I think Calzaghe is just trying to appeal more to Americans. remember before Lacy not many casual boxing fans even knew who he was.....so now he is fighting an American fighter who was on TV and has many American fans. Makes sence to me why he took the fight. The man went almost 10 years as champ and all those years was virtually unknown to the US fans. Why not fight another over hyped fighter and then go after the big dogs fo a little more $$
I keep telling you guys this: Manfredo is NOT a household name by ANY strech of the imagination. How many people in the USA watched the 1st season "Contender"? Maybe a mil or so an episode. So approx a million people ,in a country of 300 million, have even heard or seen this guy. And out of that how many will bother to watch? 250,000? (at best). So I ask you folks across the pond: how many people just in europe would PAY to watch Joe vs Kess? Id bet a million from Denmark alone. UK? 2-3 million? Then the gate in either country? Seems to me it would be one of the biggest fights ever in the history of boxing in europe. Shame Joe has a fukin fool for a promoter...
The Contender season I on NBC brought in about 6 to 8 million viewers a week and the final drew about 12 to 13 million people who watched. Peter Manfredo Jr is more famous than many regulars fighters you and I might know.

Peter Manfredo vs Pemberton filled in 10 thousand seats while his fight vs Spina only filled 5 thousand seats.

Baldomir/Mayweather only had 9 thousand seats filled.

I say Peter is known by many.
Even though he is going to get the shiet beat out of him, worse than Lacy? Could it get any worse? LOL
Those fights were in Manfredo's hometown of Providence, Rhode Island. Outside of there he wont draw those numbers.