Last Major Fight with Quality Undercard????

The Mayweather/Marquez fight had a pretty rockin undercard if i remember correctly

EDIT: Ya it was deadly, made up for the poor enough main fight

Chris John vs. Rocky Juarez
Michael Katsidis vs. Vincent Escobedo

Lock/Cruz was an entertaining scrap as well

 

Problem is Ed, that should a standard quality undercard for a top fight, things have really slipped over the last 10 years or so as far as undercards are concerned.

Showtime did some market research and most people base their decision on whether to but a PPV on the main event so theres not that much incentive to pack an undercard with decent (and expensive fights).

 

Don King used to have some cr@ckers in the 80s-90s, 3 or 4 would title fights.

 

i myself buy ppv based on the main event good undercards have only a few times pushed me to buy a ppv that i other wise wouldnt have

 

Ya I guess it's "beggars can't be choosers" for boxing fans these days.

But for once I was genuinely entertained while waiting for the main event to come on, that was pretty nice.

 

Yeah undercards are pretty **** these days, the only time i really think about them is on ESPN FNF's and thats mostly to do with wether i can be ****ed staying up for a decent main event.

A decent undercard is a bonus these days. Seems pretty **** but when I see Lock or Boone on a main event that makes it a decent undercard to me, they are that bad.

Warren always has a good undercard at the start of events, most times they get wrecked with injuries.

Imagine paying for this
http://boxrec.com/show_display.php?show_id=598500

 

Wouldn't mind seeing what all the fuss it about with that Benavidez kid, plus Barrera if he's got anything left at all. However, if Chavez Jr is top of the bill they'd need prime Mike Tyson as chief support to get me to part with a single penny.

 

The Benavidez hype never really took off for me, seems anything that Roach touches is the next big thing. Who was the last one Porter or something there's another one people went on about recently seen him on ESPN and he was all over the place not heard much about him since like it always is around here.

 

K2 cards are always **** as well thank christ Lee got away from them, for me the Germans put too many heavyweights on an undercard but usually have a good co main event.

 

I felt the undercard of the Khan vs Kotelnik fight looked good beforehand:

Hall vs Small
Enzo vs Lebedev
Brook vs Lomax
Mitchell, Smith, 'Olympians' as well.

Shame Sky didn't bother to show most of the fights :fire

 

Small Vs Hall was such a let down,