Think of some fights that made you wonder how the matchups could have even been made. Take into account the circumstances that usually come together to make for a fight like mandatories, eliminators, big money, grudge matches, etc. and then come up with fights which didn't meet any of those conditions. Here are a few: Mosley vs. Mayorga - no title on the line, Mayorga had seen better days, not a ton of money at stake, and yet the fight somehow gets made. HBO couldn't even really pitch it as Larry Merchant referred to it as being "just a fight" in the pre-fight leadup. Berto vs. Trabant - I know Berto was facing guys who couldn't really hurt him on the way up but how in the world did the German Michel Trabant end up coming to California to fight Andre Berto with no major title on the line? Normally when a European fighter is at the end of his career he'll fight overseas (Urkal did it against Cotto and Grigorian did it against Freitas) but there were titles on the line. What a random fight this was.
Mosley vs Mayorga sells itself. Two of the biggest names of their era. Mosley was coming off a loss and Mayorga was past it but had just beat Vargas. Made sense imo
Yeah I suppose you're right. Not gonna argue with your reasoning on it. The names did make people tune in.
Mayorga vs Vargas made less sense to me than Mosley vs Mayorga. Mayorga had to go all the way to 168 to make the fight, Vargas was shot to **** and there wasn't a ton of money in it. To boot it was on PPV on a Friday night.
:deal Seriously where the hell does this come from. The fans are asking for Mayweather vs Williams, or Mosley or Margarito, or Cotto even Berto was more in demand. If you would have started a thread saying who would you like to see Floyd fight next you might have gotten 10 pages of replies without one of them being Marquez.
