Comments Thread For: Katsuma Akitsugi gets late TKO of Eduardo Ramirez on 'Wednesday Night Fights'

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Bantamweight Katsuma Akitsugi added a fringe contender to his list of impressive victories with a ninth-round technical knockout over Jesus Ramirez Rubio on "Wednesday Night Fights" in Plant City, Florida.
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[landotter]

Why do I keep forgetting this is a thing??? I would have enjoyed this. These matches are exactly the type of boxing series there should be more of: Highlighting young, developing, or unknown talent. But I KEEP MISSING IT!!!

[nghtmr111]

Why do I keep forgetting this is a thing??? I would have enjoyed this. These matches are exactly the type of boxing series there should be more of: Highlighting young, developing, or unknown talent. But I KEEP MISSING IT!!!

I entirely forgot about this match and I really wanted to see it.

[Left Hook Louie]

Why do I keep forgetting this is a thing??? I would have enjoyed this. These matches are exactly the type of boxing series there should be more of: Highlighting young, developing, or unknown talent. But I KEEP MISSING IT!!!

I think the Probox Wednesday night fights actually are a thing. I tuned in last night for the first time and was entertained by the fights, mostly (there was one mismatch), and Algieri and Paulie together have a good insider's-view chatter going on the whole time.

One thing that pretty much sucks about the Probox experience was just trying to know if I was subscribed or not. I don't remember accepting any terms of payment but the locked broadcast suddenly appeared and I was able to catch all four bouts. The phone app and the Roku TV app do not make it easy to handle the transactional subscriber experience.
Probox now owns BoxingScene so they have a promotional outlet here in the form of a boxing journal. A bit of a conflict of interest but it is what it is.

The ring announcer had me laughing out loud though. At the beginning of the card he flubbed his delivery and seemed to get lost in his own cheat-sheet index cards. He also sounds exactly like the J. Peterman character from Seinfeld. It's uncanny.

[BustedKnuckles]

Why do I keep forgetting this is a thing??? I would have enjoyed this. These matches are exactly the type of boxing series there should be more of: Highlighting young, developing, or unknown talent. But I KEEP MISSING IT!!!

But you can still go back and replay it. All their fights are there on demand.

I agree that boxing needs more of this. Probox shows good matches for the most part. And after a while you start to remember some of these young guys, because they're staying active there. It's like the old days.

[Left Hook Louie]

But you can still go back and replay it. All their fights are there on demand.

I agree that boxing needs more of this. Probox shows good matches for the most part. And after a while you start to remember some of these young guys, because they're staying active there. It's like the old days.

I think the matchmaking is pretty good. They don't seem to have no-hopers with losing records going against guys just trying to pad their records. Reminds me a bit of the Shobox concept. They are giving prospects and those on the verge of becoming prospects exposure. Unlike Tessitore and Ranallo, Paulie and Algieri haven't hyped or sugar-coated any of the fighters in the limited exposure I've had to their broadcasts.

[StephenM]

The fighters on Probox mostly leave it all in the ring in competitive match ups. It kinds of reminds me of FNF in that some of the fighters will never be elite but they are matched with guys on their level and they fight their hearts out. Kudos@Probox!