Zuffa Boxing 10: Edgar Berlanga vs. Steven Butler & Richardson Hitchins vs. Ricardo Salas RBR.

Excited for this one as well lads. Decent weekend of fights for an otherwise underwhelming month.

 

It starts in about 4 hours.

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I like these competitive matchups.

Boxing is much more enjoyable to watch when we don't know who will win before the fights start!

Queensberry, Top Rank, Matchroom and other promoters should do the same.

 

i should of sprinkled some money on nistor when the odds was +175 yesterday lol oh well. decent card excited to listen to it while at work lol.

 

Why is hitchins fighting 10 rounders lol

 

They better otherwise Zuffa is going to run the UFC Matchmaking model right through them and steamroll them before they ever even knew what happened.

My longterm bet is that Dana figured out the right way to sustain a combat sports 'league' within a certain set of confined rules like MMA for example, and all of the bloated corruption, fixing, organizational strongarming, that the sanctioning bodies and promoters have been able to get away with for the better part of the last, say, 20-30 years, is either going to come to a full stop or be so forced to adapt that they'll essentially be trying to recreate the Zuffa model in their own regard. By which point it would be too late.

There's a glimmering whitepilled hopeful future for boxing yet still ahead of us but it will truly take renovating the current framework entirely, one where we're not constantly beholden to money first hostage situations and Mexican standoffs between negotiating parties that aren't trying to pin the best against the best, but rather just keep a steady and sustainable assembly line of fattening up cashcows to eventually get cashed out in due time.

I think Dana has his heart in the right place with this at a strategic scale, and it would be in the best interest of Hearn, Haymon, Warren (won't mention Arum as I think he is teetering on the outs of outs of it at this stage of his career) to either play ball or get the **** out of the way.

Very interesting times ahead in the back half of this decade for the sport.

 

Sosa looking pretty good.