http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bendirs/2009/10/froch_and_fans_frustrated.html one poor fight and the bbc cant wait to rip the **** out of boxing im not going to launch into a rant as ive just read the article and im still to pissed at its content to write a mature and sensible reply.....
is he wrong though,it wasnt exactly the type of world class boxing event that will make people think they have to see the next one.
I didn't think it was that bad, the last few lines really summed it up... Couldnt help but think "he's nailed that there".
You made me visit the 606 for some comic relief - I found this on the first page http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A58557568 :rofl
I think there is a lot of truth in what was written. Good article. The card was ****. The food (even though I didn't have any) looked shite. The beer was expensive. The last two statements can be applied to pretty much every sporting event you attend, and after all, you are free to eat before you enter the arena and nobody forces beer down your throat. Boxing really does need to look at itself in the mirror. I have attended three shows this year, Munroe vs Martinez II, Moore vs Picirillo and Froch vs Dirrell. All the undercards have been lame, by co-incidence, they rank from best to worst as I have written them above. Just a shame that the promoters never take heed of the advice they receive from dedicated fans of the sport. After all, they will watch anyway, whilst people that aren't fussed one way or the other will just think 'what a pile of ****' and try something else.
I think the least a promoter should do is provide a very decent chief support and schedule them properly. I was at Haye-Enzo and that kicked off at gone 2am but the Johnassen-Mitchell fight had finished an hour before that. They had to wake us up with music to try and get the atmosphere going again!!
The whole thing has been a shambles from top to bottom by the sounds of it. Fans in the arena... -Shite food and drink -Shite undercard -Forced in early TV... -Average stream that ****ed up numerous times -TV channel that some people couldn't even get through to despite paying. It all set the stage for a wank fight that pretty much sums up the whole thing. You can't help but feel that this would never happen under Frank Warren, as annoying as he can be.
Spot on, I particularly agree with the Warren thing. Take his two big shows so far this year. At Khan v Barrera you had Enzo v Afolabi, and Cook v Martinez on the undercard, plus Hall v Pryce. The whole thing was promoted really well, there were 20,000 fans there and everybody was talking about it. Khan v Kotelnik was less popular, but on that undercard you had Brook, Small v Hall, Olympians, Enzo, Mitchell etc. And for the upcoming fight against Salita you'll have Cleverly going for the european title, Mitchell v Burns, the Olympians and probably much more. Sadly, on Saturday night we had a rank world title fight-which on paper should have been good. But then, an English title fight between Adnan Amar (who???) and a future journeyman and that was it. A boring area title fight, and a couple of his "jobs for the boys" and so called prospects who get shown up in their first or two. Look how Warren makes his fighters seem like stars and sells them like that to the public, look how Maloney puts on the domestic fights that the people want to see, and look how Hearn builds up Prizefighter. Then we have Hennessy who has a British world champion that nobody has heard of and is fighting in the middle of the night on a doomed PPV channel that eventually gives his fight away for free. Absolute joke, worst show this year no doubt. Only saved by Froch winning.
that article is not terrible in fact it makes many good points boxing has a lot of problems with regards to undercards and substandard shows.Most promoters seem to think a good maincard is enough and that the undercard should be used to build up rising stars by making them fight some lativian farmer.This causes anger and boredom when the maincard is one side or style wise a bad match up.For me in think the ideal undercard would be contender vs contender, rising star (local if possible) vs a tough journey man, a battle of two journeyman whos styles make a great fight.Maybe even some local am bouts before.Also the undercard should be promoted as well as the maincard Also fat mick is slowly turning into the mike ashley of boxing
The absolute minimum for a chief support to a world title fight should be a decent British or European title fight.
Was on a couple of screens at the one end. No sound at all for the introductions or the first round, and cut right away at the end before the announcements or interviews as we must have been in a rushatsch. The next fighters came straight out as the video was being turned off. I'm grateful it wa shown, but it could have been much better. Sound at the start would have been nice, but no idea why we couldn;t see the announcement or interviews at the end. Couldn't see the rush really.
Cant weigh up how Hennessey manages to get it wrong time after time after time. The law of averages says his next cards bound to be a bellter.....but you know it wont. The article sums it up really. Glad i did'nt go now. Is the writer seriously called Ben Dirs??? or am i missin the joke