I love boxing and looked forward to watching last nights Chambers/Peter fightcard. ESPN heavily promoted and advertised this "fight night". What a bummer! The 3 undercard fights were absolutely terrible. Take a good young fighter and match him with the worst fighter you can find. That's matchmaking these days. Teddy Atlas even commented on how they weren't doing the young prospects a favor matching them with these chumps. I would have hated to have payed for this travesty. Then the main event. What a boring dance. Two overweight out of shape guys who wouldn't have been in the top 50 in the 1970's. I'm a fan and I was bored and disgusted. Is this a way to build a younger fanbase? A big disappointment and another reason why boxing is in trouble.
Every era of Boxing had some really bad fights that did not live up to the pre-fight build up. Boxing is in fine form.
The main event was something I enjoyed but for the casual fan watching 2 overweight HW's going at it didn't do much for the division's popularity.
boxing is making moves in the right direction, the last fight on ESPN 2 was a good match up and they put the klitscko fight on ESPN so its making moves in the right direction with less fights being on PPV and better match ups on regular HBO, so its a step in the right direction.
if trainers and managers and promoters would keep these assholes away from the buffets there might be hop.. Letting Peter train in the buffet capital of the world, las vegas, probably a bad move
