i here people saying the super six tournemant was a huge failure and that it was bad for boxing. some even calling it a joke. personally i think its bin great for boxing. although it hasnt bin as smooth as we would all like its enabled numerous match ups of top 168 fighters. match ups that wopuldnt of happened if the tournemant didnt happen. maybe a few mite of happened but usually after a fighter wins there title they fight a mandatory which is often undeserved. or they will cherry pick easy opponants. particular stand out fights i enjoyed were: froch - abraham....dirrell - abraham...... ward - kessler
The touney has been good for the sport despite people dropping off..That's just boxing, **** happens. The S6 has given us some epic fights that wouldn't have been made otherwise....More still to come as well... My current pick for the winner of the whole thing is Glenn Johnson...
you might be right. glens obviously the most experienced and could sneak decisions in both fights. i hope carl can box him like he did against abraham but im sure it will be a close fight because carl will no doubt try to brawl. also i dont think ward abraham is a foregone conclusion.
Glenn Johnson will give Carl Froch a new understanding of what "pressure" really is. Glenn will be after Froch like a pitbull. Froch early on will be thinking to himself "It wasn't supposed to be like this.." I feel Froch will get KOed for the first time in the mid to late rounds from a Johnson overhand right. Before, during, and currently in the S6 Johnson is underrated and bad mouthed. Despite winning his first fight in the tourney in unexpected, yet brilliant fashion. All attention was paid to the man he beat as opposed to the performance he himself put on. Having rewatched Ward-Green numerous times it's apparent he's refreshed and renewed. Sure he beat Allen Green, he beat the **** out of him. Much more decisive, not to mention much more pleasing to the eye than one Andre Ward did. I had to keep friends from jumping off my balcony when they watched Ward-Green. Glenn Johnson is back. The next KO victim is Carl Froch. Then another either against a billy goat or a midget.
Even as disastrous as the Super Six has turned out with all the pull outs, it's still the most interesting thing going on in boxing.
I didn't agree with the all the participants, but its been entertaining and shown that Showtime can pull off something great for Boxing fans. Now, the new tournament, with the little guys.. I'm not interested in. I've got it on my DVR, and I'm sure I'll watch it, but ehhhh. The should do a Cruiser tourney. That is a division a lot of people don't follow.
The tournament itself has been a bad advert for future tournaments because it wasn't well organized. Constant drop-outs, disputes over venues etc [which should have been sorted out pre-tournament] and just general disruption. But overall, the whole concept has been great for boxing. Would we have seen the likes of Ward vs Kessler, Froch vs Direll, Kessler & Abraham and Dirrell v Abraham without the Super Six? It's doubtful.
Not even harsh critics like me think the S6 was "bad for boxing." Sauerland and Showtime made a lot of mistakes when they put it together, but it still produced some good fights.
has it been totaly succesful no but any time you get the upper half of any division not all but a few an they all fight each other that is good thing cuz it never happens in any division so to call it faliure is completely wrong did it go perfect no but does anything ? boxing can all ways use a shot in the arm an at least they tried
It's not bad for boxing. It's not the greatest thing ever, but it still is/was a success. Friends of mine are really interested in boxing because of the S6. Pretty much the best fighting the best, and the Fight Camp 360 was key. The S6 has some holes that need to be filled out next time, but this was a success.
Rome wasn't built in a day. The Super 6 was a great idea and a tangible step in the right direction for the powerful figures in the sport to put things right.
i htink the S6 was bad, but not only bad, in my opinion, illegal... boxing is supposed to be controlled by its governing comissions, like the wbc, wbo, wba, ibo, ibf...ect, not a television network like showtime or hbo. if a fighter signs with a television network then their fights should air on that network, but i dont see why television networks seem to have more power than the boxing commissions... for example, lets say bute is champion of the ibf, and ward is #1 contender to the ibf belt, but ward is in the S6 tourny. now what should happen is ward fight bute because he is #1 contender, but because of the contract with the television network and the S6 tourny, the fight would not happen, and the boxing commissions dont seem to do anything about it. i think the down fall of boxing is the fact that the television networks have too much control over boxing match-ups....
It's been good for boxing but I don't see fighters entering another similar tourney after seeing what happened to the six who started the S6. Bute has earned good money fighting easier opponents and a lot of people rank him number 1 anyway...