Is it just me or Eddie Hearn main events have a crap undercard?

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  1. Conteh'sLeft

    Conteh'sLeft Active Member Full Member

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    A pattern I've been noticing in the big fights promoted by him is the quality or the lack thereof in the undercards.

    This problem seems more pronounced especially for Brit fights.

    Discuss.
     
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  2. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    Compared to what we get next week on Wilder Fury

    yes

    They didn't even have a filler fight for a 1 hour span, instead we had to listen to Bellew talk about AJ's muscles

    & Fury Wilder was scraped together following a legal dispute.
     
  3. DaRealJT

    DaRealJT Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes

    He chucks a couple half-decent names on there in completely one-sided matchups and then spends half an hour with Koogs telling Matchroom FC how STACKED the card is

    People were really trying to tell me that the Joshua Usyk card was stacked just because Okolie and Smith were on it LOL
     
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  4. Conteh'sLeft

    Conteh'sLeft Active Member Full Member

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    The mismatches are glaringly obvious, my memory fails me but the only really good scrap I can recall right now was the Quigley-Mosley fight on the Haney-Linares undercard.
     
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  5. gollumsluvslave

    gollumsluvslave Boxing Addict Full Member

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    C'mon, that's harsh!!

    We got Campbell Hatton and the Octopus!!!!
     
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  6. Lesion of Doom

    Lesion of Doom Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It’s a DAZN issue. I wish they at least would have a decent co feature, but no.

    Fury/Wilder undercard is stout.
     
  7. senpai

    senpai Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes. a lot of this cards have only one interesting fighter and it's main event.

    Wilder vs Fury 3 - has 8 fighters that I am interesting to see fighting.
     
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  8. teddybaldock

    teddybaldock Active Member Full Member

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    Hasn’t always been the case. I remember we once got Kevin Mitchell v Jorge Linares and Anthony Crolla in a good scrap on a kell Brook undercard (his opponent was garbage tho)
     
  9. Conteh'sLeft

    Conteh'sLeft Active Member Full Member

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    Just checked it out, some real promise on that one .
     
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  10. chacal

    chacal F*** the new normal Full Member

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    In every fightnight he has to:
    1) put 2 chicks trying to box (and failing)
    2) put a former champion's son who is average at most vs some average joe, so that the father's son can win and build a hype.

    To be fair, sacrificing 2 fights of the under card like that.... it's difficult to create a good fight night (if not impossible). Any other promoter without those handicaps can do better with no effort at all.
     
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