I paid $50 tonight

[Youngblood]

For the first time ever, to watch a fight, Cotto/Margarito. Have never ever paid. Streams and so on, yadda...

I feel kinda good about it. Not in a way that says somehow I'm better then you that got it for free, but just because I love this sport, and for it to survive, it requires money. It couldn't have gone much worse for me. Was a party happening and I missed a lot of the undercard fights. When the main event came around, I had to turn into a super dork and play traffic cop just to be able to watch it thru the carnage.

But I did get to see it. And it was a great fight. I lost my ass betting on Cotto, but still can appreciated the victory for Margarito. I box. I know the feeling that runs thru ones veins regarding a fight, the before, the during and the after. It was worth every penny for me.

I do hope boxing can make its way to big network tv, and reach more people. I think this sport needs it, and also deserves it. Nearly no one that watched that fight with me tonight (other then boxing club friends) knew or ever heard of Cotto or Margarito. They all know who Kimbo Slice is tho. You know why? Marketing.

Right now certain boxing is loving the PPV revenues, but it is hurting the sports ovarall attraction. This sport needs new fans, and new fans don't show up on PPV. Alot of you laughed at the contender, but it atleast made new boxing fans. Why? Because they were flipping thru the reg. channels and there is was.

So this is a bit of a rant, sure. But if by some offbeat chance some network exec. reads this, who happens to love boxing, make the effort dude. Sell the stories of people coming from nothing to become something. Hell, to become the best in the world, mano a mano, a sport in its purist form born from the rudementary foundations of who and what we are.

So simple a sport, yet so complex.

[southakron314]

God I hate PPV.

[HattonTheHammer]

I can genuinely say i have mates here in the uk who have no interest in either sport but still know who miguel cotto is as opposed to kimbo slice.

You do make some valid points though, boxing has always needed that slice of theatre to it that the great heavyweights of yesteryear used to have no problem in doing.

The more professional a fighter becomes he sadly becomes less marketable because he just becomes just another boxer.

It should be the TV companys jobs to sell these fights to the mass by allowing the neutral fan to see these kind of fights as often as possible and not the minority of hardcore fans who are willing to pay 50 bucks for a fight.

[Julius Rain]

Youngblood: I paid fifty bucks for the ppv.

Julius Rain: Shut up Youngblood, no you didn't your daddy did.