Quote Originally Posted by cnote111 View Post
I am not jumping ship at all just yet... We all know this fight was being talked about and in the works rather quickly... In fact a fight of this caliber would've never been thought of being made this quickly... There is a strong "possibility" that they had to come up with a way to put this fight in the forefront of everything else going on, and in such a small period of time. This was the perfect plan to hype this fight up to the maximum level in just a 3-4 month window... That is extremely impressive on how much this board and all the others have been sucked into the vortex of possiblities... Brilliant PR Stunt!

I am not buying into any of this YET, and i will await the mega fight for March 13th....


PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME BE RIGHT!!!!
(for more reasons then just my hero being a possible cheater)
It's not a brilliant pr move, it's a motherfunking disastrous one. Imagine Golden Boy talking to Top Rank and saying "this is how we create massive publicity for the fight! We'll put out a press release effectively claiming that your fighter is a cheat and a total fraud, then you deny it. But be sure to deny it in a bunch of ridiculous contradictory ways, say he's scared of needles when he's heavilt tattood, say he's superstitious and won't take blood tests within 30 days of the fight even though there's video evidence of him doing that before. And then continue to refuse to take tests while his reputation gets slimed so that even his own supporters are questioning him and the armchair PPV-buying public start to lose interest in the fight and Manny in general because it looks like he's a fraud. Then file a lawsuit against us making us look like a bunch of cnuts too! Then when we've made ourselves and the promotion look as bad as we possibly can let's say we found a resolution and the fight is back on!"


It's just nuts. Maintaining radio silence from announcing the fight until March 13th would have been a smarter idea to promote the fight than actually doing the events of the past two weeks on purpose.