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Why is that a bad matchup? two former world champs with different styles fighting isnt a bad matchup. Unless its Toney-Rahman or something like that.
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Not the greatest matchup in the world , but in my honest opinion it could be worse.

Baldomir/Forrest on B.A.D > Baldomir/Forrest on PPV
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Not the greatest matchup in the world , but in my honest opinion it could be worse.

Baldomir/Forrest on B.A.D > Baldomir/Forrest on PPV
Exactly. You know HBO would have made it a PPV too if they thought they could get away with it the f*****.
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Heh, I would be with ya, but they havent been that bad, really? This one may turn out to be good, give it a chance.
You will still pay for this... you know HBO isn't free, and they actually DO have an enormous amount of cash to give to the fighters in need. Carlos and Vernon have already had their time and fame. New, young, hard working fighters need the exposure... and if you know boxers, you know that starving fighters will fight for it in the spotlight.

The way you guys are talking, you don't care about this regurgitation of old "HBO owned and recognized" former champions. When HBO could easily do their homework and find young new talent and show it to the public. And have exciting fights like the first B.A.D. where a little known fighter at the time named Marco Antonio Barrera got his chance to show his mettle against Kennedy Mckinney (check it out on youtube, you'll see a REAL fight) Fighters like Linares, Sturm, Diaz, Soto, even the contenders who've long earned their chance. Trust me, it'd be more entertaining than this repeat of former champion matchups that we never asked for.
If I were HBO, I wouldn't care either, because apparently there is no outcry from these horrible matchups on B.A.D.
Your logic is hypocritical in my opinion. On the one hand you are arguing that HBO has an obligation to up and coming fighters, to showcase their talents and to help promote them, yet on the other you seem to think that a fighter who has risen to the very top and made the p4p rankings (Forrest) or who has been an undisputed world champ as recently as one fight ago (Baldimor) should just be discarded because they are rubbish and nobody cares about them any more

Your kind of care and concern a fighter could most defintely do without :P

Personally you may not like this matchup, but plenty of others do. Personally I'm excited to see which one of these will go on for one last hurahh. Forrest has only ever lost to one fighter in his entire career and Baldomir is the kind of hard working good honest grafter that most fans would not begrudge him time in the limelight.

As for HBO's obligation to up and coming fighters, well Sho Box and ESPN Friday and Wednesday night fights are doing pretty well in that regard. HBO's duty is to cover boxing and provide us with a range of fighters.

I believe this fight is for the vacant light middleweight title so the result is obviously significant as whoever wins will be world champion. Personally I think HBO's duty is to cover championship fights more than anything, as every world title fight should be televised, don't you think?