Comments Thread For: Gervonta Davis vs. Lamont Roach is 'a hard pill to swallow'

[maguirre]

Which is why you don't take any figure coming out in this sport nowadays, PPV numbers, purses, estimated earnings, etc. seriously. They are massively exaggerated. If you've been following boxing at least starting from when PBC started, you know exactly the realistic figures are. Danny Garcia's purse, for example, in the Rod Salka fight was $700K, which was seen as already huge at that time. Leo Santa Cruz made $750K vs a former sparring partner. Again it's seen as huge. And these figures were not hard to find at that time. $1 million is a huge deal even to this day. How in the world it went from $1 million to $10 to $25 million? What changed? Certainly not the size of the fights, not the PPV numbers, not the crowd size, not the investors, etc. What changed is bogus writers, like you said, youtube channels that lie about anything and get away with it.

May/Pac rivalry roused the interest of fans in purses, splits, guarantees, ppv numbers, anything that involves money. The back and forth among fans was legendary. That's where it all started and it infected every other big fight that followed. Thus many fans started checking out figures which were readily available. Whether they were accurate or not, they're certainly far from being massively exaggerated.

$1 million purse is definitely huge even to this day. Thurman made $1.5 mil and Porter, $1 mil in their fight on CBS. No ppv upsides, except probably uncle Al's "side money". Bottom line is those were the prevailing values of fighters in big fights. Nowadays bogus writers are reporting almost 20x more even on small fights.

[Bronx2245]

Tank vs Teo is a good matchup and it's a disgrace it's not being made.
My guess right now is that Tank stops Teo.

I don't think Teo can make 140, but he'd do it for a payday!

[Left Hook Louie]

I don't think Teo can make 140, but he'd do it for a payday!

If not at 140, how do you see him matching up against the top guys at 147?
I get the sense he's a bit undersized.

[Poopdick]

and you chose poop**** as a screen name

and I sell 0 ppv's. look at the brain on Brad.

[DClefthook]

and I sell 0 ppv's. look at the brain on Brad.

And you get 0 Pucci. And you have 0 money. And you have 0 friends. And you get 0 respect. And you .......

[4truth]

Similar to the other "face of boxing" but much worse. Canelo at least used to mix in a decent fight occasionally.

It's a shame too because Tank is talented and he has an entertaining style.

[SteveM]

So to your logic I'm a bad guy because I followed the rules set by the men that came before me and I succeeded and you frown on that? Mannits no wonder why you Europeans have lost control of your continent. Your men are weak. FH-UCK!!!

You are either too dumb to see the point I made or choose to ignore it.

Despite 'succeeding' in a 'white man's world' you still can only see everything through a race filter? An ex-friend of mine, also successful, completely flipped when B*L*M came to the fore - literally brain-washed and personality change - losing lifelong friends when in fact nothing had ostensibly changed in his life - except his thought patterns.

[morph_resurrected]

How about this - pick one day of the year as "Bubbles Day" and use it on that day.
Every other day of the year is any image other than this one.
That way you're not getting rid of him at all, just reserving him for a very special day

Nah man you just don’t understand hahahhaha

[Bronx2245]

If not at 140, how do you see him matching up against the top guys at 147?
I get the sense he's a bit undersized.

I was hoping to find out, but then he bailed out of the fight with Brian Norman Jr.!

[Poopdick]

And you get 0 Pucci. And you have 0 money. And you have 0 friends. And you get 0 respect. And you .......

damn you like a gypsy mindreader.