Crap Fights Tonight: This Is Why Boxing Is Dying

I don't feel too sorry for Valuev. He got a gift against Holyfield and it's good to get rid of him. He's a boring stiff, especially at this age.

Still, Haye didn't do crap in the fight. And now you can envision him getting a Ruiz-like run of chumps to sustain his "championship" status.

Haye didn't deserve to win the fight. This reminds me of Taylor-Hopkins: The promoters want the marketable guy and not the old, more boring fighter who isn't a good draw. The scores were a joke except for the draw card, and that still was off, IMO.

At least Haye stunned Valuev at the end. Perhaps Dave can hang around a little longer at HW than I thought. He probably can, especially if he gets the "Bum-Of-The-Month" diet that's likely.

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Dawson-Johnson II sucked. Not a surprise, but it was as bad as many thought it was going to be. 40+ year old guy fights 28 year old, and we see the result. Lampley can try to put over Johnson by bringing up Calzaghe, but the bottom line is that Johnson looked like just another geriatric Tarver who shouldn't be in the ring with a young fighter.

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Now, it's one thing if you have a bunch of crud fights and there's no competition. However, on CBS tonight is a free MMA show with the biggest name in the sport among real fight fans (I won't give away what happened here for the West Coast people).

The bouts are free, they have way more action than the two boxing matches tonight and that's how you end up losing fans. Again, you can get away with this if there's no competition. But when you're trying to keep or gain fans, nights like tonight hurt.

Dawson wastes another date and Haye gains almost zero legitimacy from his "win." Weak.

 

Yep. Don't tell people about the Fedor fight yet, though. It's still to come for the West Coast in the USA. Don't want to spoil it.

 

Shhh...Fedor fight is yet to come on the West Coast.

I missed Angulo-Yorgey. Will have to catch that.

Mayhem/Shields = boring.

 

Yep. You at least have to build guys up on free TV, and boxing hardly does that anymore. Fights like Adamek-Cunningham (not totally "free," but on basic cable) are too rare.

Meanwhile, MMA is on network TV and you have two stinker main events in boxing tonight.

I love both sports, but felt disappointed with boxing tonight.

Still, good fights on the horizon (Pac-Cotto, Ward-Kessler).

 

Ha ha -- I wouldn't go that far!

Sokodjou (sp?) and Mousai was fun. That was a good scrap. Same with Silva-Werdum.

Miller-Shields sucked. No doubt about that.

Fedor: Will talk about that fight in like 25 minutes or so when it's over on the west coast.