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  1. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    ..............Yeah, that series isn't bad. I have all the fights I've seen there, but it's nice to see they aren't continually humping Ali's leg all the time the way ESPN does. ESPN doesn't know boxing, though, so it's a damn pity Cayton sold out to them. It's like that scene in Raiders Of The Lost Arc, when the guy driving the forklift just has the arc shut away in an innocuous wooden box and drives it off in a huge warehouse to rest among the other unmarked boxes for an eternity. That's all ESPN has done with them. Just sit on 'em.......:-(
     
    salsanchezfan, Aug 25, 2008
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  2. sp6r=underrated

    sp6r=underrated Member Full Member

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    Blame the stupid viewers who would rather watch a damaged Ali get dominated by Holmes than Morales-MAB
     
    sp6r=underrated, Aug 25, 2008
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  3. southpawslick

    southpawslick Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I don't know man, do the viewers actually influence what ESPN boxing shows? I mean its not like baseball or NFL, its a smaller market and I don't think ESPN gives a **** about us.
     
    southpawslick, Aug 25, 2008
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  4. sp6r=underrated

    sp6r=underrated Member Full Member

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    No question, its about viewers, look at the way ESPN made ****ing poker into a sport in the first half of the decade when it saw the ratings. If they could get ratings showing static they would do it.
     
    sp6r=underrated, Aug 25, 2008
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  5. nezy37

    nezy37 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    That **** has got to stop...I would rather watch a lumberjack competition or some crazy **** like that than poker.

    How many times do the have to replay the same WS of Poker over and over and over and over...

    I suppose you get alot of people from that era that are casual fans at best but when they see Ali they will stop and watch.
     
    nezy37, Aug 25, 2008
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  6. southpawslick

    southpawslick Well-Known Member Full Member

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    :lol: :lol: :lol: And Rodeo. I did like it for a really short time when they showed Muay Thai boxing from Lumpinee in Bangkok. that was ****ing awesome so of course they replaced it with poker :lol:
     
    southpawslick, Aug 25, 2008
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  7. Tencount85

    Tencount85 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Boxing should just have it's own specific channel where they show fights
     
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