Looking back: terrible matchmaking

Bute was not invited to the S6

 

David Reed against Trinidad. Why Reeds management thought it was a smart move to put a 14 fight pro in with a prime Trinidad is beyond stupid. Nobody and I mean nobody would have blamed Reed for passing on that fight at that time.

 

Khan v Prescott always seemed like an unnecessary disaster for me, pitching the slightly chinny up-and- comer against an unknown banger from Colombia. No need to take this one at all. And it obviously ended badly for Amir. Didn't his new trainer recommend the fight? Dont think he lasted long either ...

 

This reminded me of Golovking vs Munguia. The athletic commission shut it down and likely saved Munguia from a tremendous beating.
But wtf was Munguia´s team thinking? And ironically, he has been very carefully matched since then.

 

I think they wanted to prove a point, that being that Khan can take on punchers. So they chose so complete unknown who had a nice record.
Whoops.

 

Curry vs Honeyghan.....Curry at that time was ranked the number 1 pound for pound boxer in the world,
Could have fought Hagler in a mega bout ( only made small money against Honeyghan )

 

Alberto Machado vs Andrew Cancio - Machado had largely feasted on sub par opposition, with nothing substantive to prepare him for Cancio, who knocked out the tough as nails Rene Alvarado, and got a UD over a past it Rocky Juárez, both of which wins were better than anything on Machado's record to that point.

Then THEY TOOK THE REMATCH

EDIT: my bad, he knocked DOWN Alvarado and it was stopped on cuts a round or two later

 

From all accounts, Bute and his team were never involved in the initial talks at all. Either the S6 head(forgot his name) has some personal issues with Interbox, or he simply was not confident that Bute and his side would work with the confines of the tournament. You know, travel to the opponents backyard and so on. Jokes on them if that was the case because Andre Ward decided to do his thing.

Froch looked like doo-doo in the Ward fight, lost to Kessler and struggled with Johnson. Bute in his last fight completely dominated Johnson.
I honestly think to this day that they simply underestimated Froch. They thought they would pick off where Ward let things and simply smash their way through into a mega fight with Ward.

 

For me they're all good matchmaking.

Boxing is too soft FFS.

 

There were some talks about Interbox looking to sign with HBO but it was never verified. Seems more like a theory in hindsight than what actually happened.

A real shame too. And sucks that Ward was such a diva, because SHO was setting up the S6 winner vs Bute.