Funny enough with Tyson, he was getting rave reviews in BN and the American mags but his first televised fight over here apart from highlight...
They used to have that Fight Night series as well with Gary Newbon. Small hall shows where fighters could build up a bit of a following.
Maybe I'm just old school, it's the fans that are missing out. There are good fights to be made out there that would sell, belt or no belt. :-(
Do we really need them though? Why couldn't we sell good fighters fighting other good fighters for the right to fight for "The Title"? There is...
I think the thread maker is talking about if he was a real middleweight and not a built up one.
That's how I saw it, live on ITV!
There should just be one World Champ and one European Champ, for ****'s sake!
Remember watching that first Czyz-Williams fight, definitely was epic.
Are you saying that Olivares ducked Rodolfo Martinez?
You've got to be joking haven't you. I'm shocked to hear that Ruiz was his mandatory. Like I said, he hadn't beat a ranked heavyweight in about 6...
OK? Ruiz hadn't beat a rated fighter in about 6 years and Valuev was coming off a disputed win over a 46 year old shell that used to be Evander...
You got to admit he hasn't really done much or beat anyone of note at heavyweight though.
