Great America Heavyweight Box Off - US Prizefighter?

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  1. zxcvbnm

    zxcvbnm #TeamHWFuture Full Member

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    Taking place in April -first 6 names announced.

    Jason Estrada
    http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?cat=boxer&human_id=282133

    Joey Abell
    http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=327656&cat=boxer

    Alonzo Butler
    http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?cat=boxer&human_id=27712

    Emmanuel Nwodo
    http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=034824&cat=boxer

    Devin Vargas
    http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=283628&cat=boxer

    Daniel Martz
    http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=601643&cat=boxer

    So it looks like this is going to be a US Prizefighter - I can spot several problems with this straight away.

    Don Elbaum who is organising this says that the tournament will revive the HW division in the US and produce the next HW champion of the world. No it won't. 5 of the 6 names announced are journeymen, Daniel Martz who is 22 years old and 7-0 is the only guy there who can be considered a prospect.

    Elbaum is also looking at hosting this at MSG (who will pay MSG prices to go and watch this?). Even crazier is that the tournament has a $500,000 prize fund - with the winner receiving $250,000 with a tenth of that going to the winner's charity of choice. $250,000 for beating a load of journeymen? These guys must be very excited about this.

    Once word gets out among US HWs that they can receive $225,000 for beating a load of journeymen then surely the likes of Mago, Mo Harris, Franklin Lawrence, Kevin Johnson will all want in on this. Easy money.

    In short, this isn't a bad idea at all - but with such a huge prize fund they should have aimed this at far bigger names. When you consider that the likes of Johnson, Hamer, Sosnowski, Perez entered Prizefighter which only gives out £32,000 to the winner, I don't really get what those behind this are playing at. Even those that lose their quarter-finals in this get $15,000.
     
  2. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    I was reading about this.

    It didn't ultimately seem thread-worthy. :lol:
     
  3. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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  4. zxcvbnm

    zxcvbnm #TeamHWFuture Full Member

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    :lol:
    I agree but was itching to post after my ban expired.
    Yeah should be fairly easy for Estrada, not that he will do anything of note should he win this.
     
  5. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    I mean, the biggest threat is Nwodo, a blown-up cruiserweight. (who admittedly does punch with venom)

    I figure if Estrada handled the best shots of Travis Walker, Tomasz Adamek, Goofi Whitaker, Derek Bryant, and Sasha Povetkin (over the full distance in each case) he can probably handle the clubbing impact of a few partially-blocked haymakers from Nwodo.

    The Lawrence stoppage was bull****, too. They were brawling for a while, then Estrada lands a low blow that pisses Lawrence off, and Lawrence rocks him to the ropes with a looping right from which Estrada had already recovered by the time Charlie Fitch overreacted with a dramatic wave of his arms.
     
  6. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Jump to around the forty minute mark.

    Estrada's got a decent, proven HW chin.

    He also has no power.

    So expect him to UD everybody on his way to half a million. :lol:
     
  7. On The Money

    On The Money Dangerous Journeyman Full Member

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    Where's Audley? Wild card surely.
     
  8. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Actually, he's booked in the real Prizefighter for next month. :lol:

    Along with Martin Rogan. :!:
     
  9. chitownfightfan

    chitownfightfan Loyal Member Full Member

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    Daniel Martz......

    Heard it here first.:deal
     
  10. Brickhaus

    Brickhaus Packs the house Full Member

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    Or expect this to never come off. Something like this has been proposed on and off for years now, but it never happens because they can't get the money together or can't get good enough fighters.
     
  11. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Well, he has been plowing through young undefeated countrymen. :think

    (average age of 28, average record of 2.33-0)
     
  12. Boxing Fanatic

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    i was actually thinking about entering lol
     
  13. Brickhaus

    Brickhaus Packs the house Full Member

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    :lol:

    Dude is listed at 5'7" 260.

    That's gotta be a typo though. I'm guessing more like 6'7".

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  14. KO KIDD

    KO KIDD Loyal Member Full Member

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    is this getting TV backing?

    seems pretty evenly matched
     
  15. Manning

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    Interesting. If it comes off I'll watch that. As said above though the prize found sounds insane.