The Slow Death of PBC

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by Badbot, Nov 24, 2024.


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  1. Badbot

    Badbot I Am An Actual Pro. Full Member

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    Nope, wrong! Quillin actually made 1.5 million for the Jacobs fight. This was Haymon´s big promise, Quillin just had to wait over a year for it.
    Whats even funnier is that Quilling ended up fighting Lee for the WBO belt that he vacated. This was before the Jacobs fight and Quillin made just 500k for that one. Trading a 1.5 mil career high purse for 500k is mad, I wonder if Quillin was at least a little pissed off himself.

    And then the Jacobs fight was pretty much the end of Quillins career. I don´t imagine him making much money in his last 4 fights.
    "Onto bigger and better things" or w/e Quillin said.
     
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  2. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    It's because they are following a flawed blueprint.

    People claim Mayweather cherry picked his opposition, but atleast he consistently cherry picked world class fighters who were the best in their division.

    The new crop of unbeaten fighters are completely untested at the top level.

    Remember when they thought Wahid was going to be the face of boxing?
     
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  3. Badbot

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    Floyd had an excellent model. He picked guys that were coming off of big wins, and had hype around them. Victor Ortiz was not the best 147 had to offer, but he came off of a FOTY candidate with Berto and won his first(and only) world title.

    The two fights that did not do all that well were Guerrero and Berto. Both guys were coming off of good wins, but not big ones.
    The Maidana numbers also suffered a bit because it was not the fight the fans wanted at the time.
     
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  4. lufcrazy

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    And that the problem, the new crop of unbeaten fighters were marketing their zero, not their resume.
     
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  5. IsaL

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    Tragic. Had he not been forced to vacate.. (who the hell forces a fighter to vacate??)He would have had the opportunity to fight Saunders, Willie Monroe, David Lemieux and would have been a HoFer had we won which he probably could have. Instead he was forced to sit out, get fat, and fail against Lee.
     
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  6. Sheikh

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    Boxing needs a league like ufc. If they can do it boxing can
     
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  7. Smoochie

    Smoochie greb stan Full Member

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    With stank callin out retirement another one of theirs attraction is gone
     
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  8. Badbot

    Badbot I Am An Actual Pro. Full Member

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    That´s basically what HBO was back in the day. Also, the Ali act kinda gets in the way of boxing forming a league. UFC spends millions every year trying to keep the Ali act out of MMA.
    MMA has far less regulations than boxing in USA.
     
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