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lefty wrote:I'm falling asleep reading this waffle.

Just eat the damned waffle, lefty. You're worrying me, man

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:I don't know how accurate they are, but...

- You don't know that's your Triple XXX drawers sagging from the load of your opinions?

No surprises there. 2016 a terrible financial mess for boxing. If TUE 49-0 fought Beefy in Jerry's World, he's lucky to draw 100K buys and 15K attendance. Canelo just turned 26 already set some PPV records making making mo'money than the 26 year old TUE schmoozing with Victoriano Sosa in the Selland Arena, Fresno Cali, I kid you not.

The skinny per boxrec:

Floyd Mayweather Jr. had been caught by an overhand right and fell into the ropes, forced to grab and hold Victoriano Sosa to stem the attack.

There were 45 seconds remaining in the sixth round and the crowd was chanting Sosa's last name, imploring the upset-minded challenger to finish off Mayweather and take his World Boxing Council lightweight title.

But while in the clinch, an unconcerned Mayweather looked down at the ringside broadcasting team and winked, as if he knew something.

He did.

Sosa, often the more exciting and busier fighter, was not landing clean blows, while Mayweather was picking Sosa apart with pristine jabs to the face and stomach.

Mayweather weathered the sixth-round storm Saturday night and put on a jab clinic to come away with a one-sided unanimous decision, 118-110, 119-109, 118-110. The Times scored it 117-111.

The announcement, though, angered the Selland Arena crowd of 7,255, which was nearly 3,000 less than capacity and witnessing the first world title fight in the city's history.

"Don't go by the oohs and ahs," said a fresh-faced Mayweather, who improved to 30-0. "That's not what boxing's about.

Save the children and turn yourself in to a Federal solid waste depository to plea for sanctuary. They got a home for you.

I been telling folks for a couple years now that ppv is a thing of the past. Most folks with logic will watch a stream for free rather than pay $70 for a ppv. The quality of the stream are A Quality. Nobody is gonna do great ppv #s in boxing now. The powers that b will have to adjust thier prices or folks will just stream :)

scallum2015 wrote:I been telling folks for a couple years now that ppv is a thing of the past. Most folks with logic will watch a stream for free rather than pay $70 for a ppv. The quality of the stream are A Quality. Nobody is gonna do great ppv #s in boxing now. The powers that b will have to adjust thier prices or folks will just stream :)

There have always been methods to hijack PPV's. A casual fan, the base of big PPV's, isn't going to sit in front of their computer or phone and watch it by themselves. Americans just don't care about Boxing in general. Though I do agree that these abysmal cards won't help them. This one was so bad I didn't even stream it.