Man would that be a classic, I think that is the most interesting 24/7 that HBO can do if the fight ever happens. I think it would be more interesting to see new faces in 24/7, not mayweather flashing his jewelry or pacquiao talking about congress. To see the difference in intensity of two young up and coming fighters in Gamboa's camp or Lopez's camp in compare to all 24/7's that are all with old fighters honestly, to see the difference in culture, to see two countries like puerto rico and cuba with kind of a little rivalry in the sports, to see new coaches and their training techniques. etc.
two guys who dont speak english and have very little charisma. Doubt it would be very interesting to the casual fan.
Why exactly? I mean I look forward to the day this fight happens, but why would the 24/7 be any better than lets say Pacquiao/Cotto
Id find it interesting personally,their two fighters that we dont know much about their personalities or much about their past
No thanks. There's many others fighters I'd rather see a 24/7. Like Froch Vs Abraham. Or Malignaggi Vs somebody These guys would make the show.
**** 24/7 what happenedd to HBO's old school pre fight show they would do before. Alot of fights could have used one of those for promo. Not everything needs to be a series.... anyone agree?
I don't share your opinion to be honest, for 2 reason. One is that 24/7 is no sport documentary, it's a glorified advertisement to sell the PPV, and the most effective way to get your $55 is going Hollywood with fancy effects, corny narration, predicable one-liners and the simple lie spreading over weeks that certain fights can be competitive, when they look one-sided on paper, and end up being just as one-sided (Calzo-Jones, Floyd-Hatton/JMM/Mosley, Pac-Hatton/Clottey/Margarito). It's so obvious that almost every moment of 24/7 is staged that it feels like a B-category movie (and they can be pretty cool sometimes), but I guess just a few share my views. My simple biggest problem with it (other than Floyd Mayweather inventing it for himself and even he got repetitive for the 3rd time), that it has a huge budget and that budget could be spent on an actual boxing card, yet we get this. No HBO card in October for example. Problem no2 is that like Pacquiao, like Cotto, like Mosley, neither Gamboa, nor JuanMa are really interesting characters. Pac learned this charming and smiling face pretty much like Nadal in tennis, while the rest don't even have that kind of media persona. As furious and often arrogant as Gamboa is in the ring, he's humble family man and the silent type like Cotto. JuanMa has some charisma, but then there's the language problem (not that the English speaking audience outweighs the Spanish speaking, but it's not the Latino community who needs to be convinced to buy the fight, they love boxing and will buy anyway. The target audience is the English speaking majority who wouldn't buy otherwise). I love sport documentaries, I just simply don't consider 24/7 one. Fight Camp 360 is pretty good for a sport documentary series, but for a single event I preferred (the not less corny) half-hour HBO WCB preview (the one that included Pavlik-Taylor for example). Tha 30 mintues is the airtime these boxers can fill in with quality stuff, the rest is up to their fists. Bring back that kind of videos!
I think it would be more interesting to see new faces in 24/7, not mayweather flashing his jewelry or pacquiao talking about congress. To see the difference in intensity of two young up and coming fighters in Gamboa's camp or Lopez's camp in compare to all 24/7's that are all with old fighters honestly, to see the difference in culture, to see two countries like puerto rico and cuba with kind of a little rivalry in the sports, to see new coaches and their training techniques. etc. I say this 24/7 is a big hit if it ever gets made.
Though I like 24/7, I agree that those Countdown shows were better. However, there was only one episode of Countdown rather than four episodes with 24/7.
