HBO is a huge company with dreadful promotional skills. Mario Lopez? George Lopez? Did anyone listen to Schaefer on the mic? He's a friggn lawyer or accountant or something, keep him far the hell away from a microphone. Just awful. For an event generating so many millions of dollars, they hire their marketing crew off street corners like Mexican labourers.
Come on man that **** is uncalled for. I like the fact that they are trying to bring in Hollywood types to promote.
To be faoir Mario and George Lopez are pretty much always at any GBP PPV where there's a Mexican fighter involved. They were at Pac/DLH and it didn't effect anything. I wouldn't be surprised if Lopez does it as a favor to Oscar.
Maybe my expectations are high, I expected something good. I mean im a marketing student fresh out of school, and I could organize this better. They're catering to the American Idol type crowd, screaming teenagers with signs and crushes. This is a boxing event. I dont like the endless interviews. We've heard everyone's opinion dozens of times, let's move on. GBP and Oscar is notoriously cheap, so this should be no surprise I guess. ... and on that note, prepare for another terrible undercard full of knockouts within 3 or 4 rounds, like the DLH-Pac card.
That's the market that's most untouched. Every boxing fan and his momma and his sister will be ordering this event. It's touching the casualities that they're attempting.
Fair enough. But they are also alienating the old school crowd. And the casual crowd doesn't watch the weigh ins. Most are fans of either fighter, or gamblers I'd say.
No question about it. No question and that's the risk that boxing continually runs when they do **** like this. As someone whose always wanted to tamper into the marketing world (and all it's sins), I feel it's a risky strategy especially with two very well dug in fanbases at the place (Hatton and Pac fans) Personally I don't have a problem with it. George and Mario Lopez might attract casual fans to the place who want to hear some jokes. The fighters will sell the fight though.
Nothing wrong with mainstream promotion. If an old school fight fan is turned off by the promtion at the weigh-in, and dstops watching boxing becauuse of it. He's a ****in over-sensitive *****.
Nothing wrong with mainstream promotion but this **** was ridiculously bad! It really was embarrassing to watch.
