Jim Lampley? Objective source there.
Only Porter v Broner?
Thurman v Guerrero
Berto v Lopez
Stevenson v Bika
Garcia v Peterson
Lee v Quillin
Dirrell v Jack
Figueroa v Burns
Dirrell v DeGale
Khan v Algieri
Spence v LoGreco
Barthelemy v DeMarco
Vasquez v Omotoso
Thurman v Collazo
Frampton v Gonzalez
Upcoming:
Payano v Warren
Tarver v Cunningham
Bute v DiLuisa
Santa Cruz v Mares
Before anyone cherrypicks Thurman v Collazo as a mismatch, it turned out to be a decent workout for Keith. Collazo may be past it but he will never be a soft touch.
PBC has put a lot of interesting stuff out there on network tv. Even some of the mismatches have been worth a watch to see up and comers or boxers on the rebound.
Boxing fans can be a herd of whining bitches.
Several respectable match-ups there but some don't belong in my opinion:
-Stevenson-Bika?? Really? Bika hadn't won a fight in nearly two years, was coming off a clear loss to Anthony Dirrell, had never campaigned at 175, and has lost every major fight he's been in. Hardly a good fight in my opinion and Stevenson ended up dominating a bout that was fairly uneventful other than Bika's trips to the canvas.
-No idea what Spence-Lo Greco is doing there, as LG took the fight on two days notice and was obviously never in the same class, unless you really overrated his 100-88 loss to Porter and his wins over mediocre opposition. Turned out to be uncompetitive as should have been obvious before the fight. Are you mistaking LG for a better fighter?
-Fights like Khan-Algieri and Frampton-Gonzalez seemed to be mismatches on paper but turned out to be decent. I think matchmaking should be judged before the matter though, as people can't look into a crystal ball and see how the fights would turn out. Algieri was coming off the 6 KD loss against Pacquiao and his lack of power made him what I think Khan's team saw as a safe option, though Khan has a habit of having more trouble with those types than expected. Collazo, who of course was badly outclassed by Khan, seemed like a safe option for Thurman too, and despite the brief moment of success which he didn't follow-up on he was getting soundly beaten and in my view lost all but one round.
-Bute vs Di Luisa? What is good about this? It's Bute vs someone who on paper should be over-matched, has feasted on mediocre opposition, was stopped by a feather-fisted SMW, and seems to clearly be chosen for Bute to handily defeat.
I like that PBC has resulted in abundance of fairly high level shows being televised and overall the matches have been decent--some good, some poor, and others in between--but given that Haymon is associated with so many good fighters and seems to have tremendous influence on them, it's disappointing to me that he hasn't chosen to match them more aggressively against one another. Certainly there are plenty of mismatches involving other parties and networks, but as someone mentioned HBO and K2 can't just throw together a top fight like GGG-Cotto in the same way that Haymon could get Garcia and Thurman to fight or Beterbiev and Stevenson to square off....instead we get Garcia vs shopworn, inactive Paulie and Stevenson vs Karpency.
