Quote Originally Posted by meowza
Quote Originally Posted by halo
As I mentioned in another thread, with the monies both gentlemen earned for this fight (Combined estimate of $100 million gross of tax), they could have shown more pride and gave a show worth talking for generations to come.

I remember watching fights in YOUTUBE without the benefit of an ear piece and great fights always stood out. Watch castillo - corrales and you will see what I mean. Now try watching OLDH - PBF without sound and hype and what do you get? Nothing really except two men laughing all the way to the bank.
Why should it have been a war?
If you were Floyd, why would you open up and let Oscar hit you for no reason at all?
If you tuned into this thing expecting Hagler - Hearns, you were only fooling yourself.

You got to see Oscar give it all he had like we expected him to.
We got to see Floyd put on a beautiful technical performance like we expected him to.
What did you want?

I'll play your experiment of watching the fight over without sound if you'll play my experiment.
Go back in time and watch the fight over again without expecting Hagler - Hearns. Then you'll see a good fight, I swear.

You just answered what I found wrong about the fight. Why did PBF have to fight a bigger man? He already knew he could not fight toe to toe. So his strategy was to evade and pick his shots. Fine for him, bad for us who expected much more because of all the hype. Didn't you want to see PBF dominate OLDH? Did he? PBF dominated Gatti. He even hurt Baldomir. But did PBF honestly dominate OLDH? Again, this fight to me was a mockery. It was all "show me the money". Both men could have gone another 10 rounds the way they looked after 12 rounds. Man, if someone offered me 1 million dollars for a fight, I will fight as if there was no end. Both men received $100 million dollars combined. With hardly a sweat. What? For us to see one man pick his shots and for the other to have intermitent flurries? Both men could have laid it on the line and prove to each other who was the better man. But no, why do that when we will earn $100 million anyway regardless.