Winky Wright-Grady Brewer and Other Fights You Can Pay For
by SC on Oct 22, 2009 4:17 PM EDT
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With TV spots for boxing so few and far between as most of the American fights are on HBO and Showtime, with ESPN2 chipping in Friday Night Fights for part of the year and Versus picking up the occasional fight, boxing promoters are often left with the unenviable task of trying to sell budget-style pay-per-views to the hardcore boxing audience. Top Rank's Latin Fury series goes for a closer-to-standard PPV price tag of $39.99, but there is a small slew of shows coming up that will be in the $25-30 range most likely.
I also don't think it's any great travesty that these shows -- or the Latin Fury events -- are on pay-per-view. Frankly, I prefer to live in a world where if I feel like it, I can plunk down some cash and watch a "minor" show. If you don't want to order it, you don't order it, and nothing is hurt, least of which is boxing should nobody buy any of these fights.
Here's the minor PPV lineup in the coming months.
October 24: Kermit Cintron v. Juliano Ramos
This is without question the worst of the bunch, and will only be available on Dish Network, I believe. Cintron (31-2-1, 27 KO) faces Brazilian Ramos (15-2-1, 12 KO) in Puerto Rico, Kermit's first-ever fight on the island. This was meant to be teamed with a Carlos Quintana stay-busy fight, an attempt to poke at the Puerto Rican fanbase's wallets, but with just Cintron being too well-known at all, promoter Lou DiBella is probably going to take a small bath on this one. Cintron-Ramos is a nasty mismatch considering Cintron's power and the fact that Ramos was stopped by Mike Jones in his last fight.
October 30: Hector Camacho Jr. v. Yori Boy Campas
Let me tell you something. I watch a lot of boxing. I pay out the backside for HBO, Showtime and PPV events. But this disgrace of a fight isn't even worth stealing online, that is if anyone in the world is going to pay for it and then stream it. Camacho (49-3-1, 27 KO) is the owner of one of boxing's emptiest records and has survived 13 years in the pro game on his father's name, while the 38-year old Campas (92-14-1, 74 KO) is just plain shot and nowhere near the competitive fighter he once was. This will be marketed as "revenge" crap because Campas drew Camacho's 47-year old father at a DoubleTree Hotel in Orlando back in May in front of about 12 people. If you order this, you're nuts.
November 6: Zab Judah / Joel Casamayor Doubleheader
Yeah, this one got PPV. Judah was going to fight Matthew Hatton in July before Mayweather-Marquez was postponed, and then was lined up for the same fight in September before backing out. He was then offered a fight with Shane Mosley and turned it down. He set up a bout for this show with highly-regarded sparring veteran Ramon Montano, who once gave David Diaz a fairly tough 10 rounds at lightweight, but Montano is out. Judah will -- for now -- face blown-up Brazilian featherweight Adailton DeJesus (22-4, 17 KO), who has fought once this year at 135 pounds. It'll be a welterweight contest.
Joel Casamayor will also return on the card, facing Jason Davis (11-4-1, 3 KO). Sounds like a party, doesn't it?
November 7: Nikolai Valuev v. David Haye
Hey, alright! One to actually be excited about, at least sort of. This fight certainly deserved the Integrated Sports PPV treatment, and it will receive it. With Cristobal Arreola having been pretty harshly smoked by Vitali Klitschko in September, it's now up to cocky Brit David Haye to crash the heavyweight party and provide excitement, at least in theory. This fight will have the intrigue that all Valuev fights do, as he's seven feet tall and will tower over Haye. As positive as most seem that Haye will win this fight, he's had a dodgy chin in the past and Valuev is just massive. I can't see Haye knocking Valuev out, but if he rips away to the body he could possibly get the giant to give up. This is a more interesting prospect than Valuev's last PPV fight, last December against Evander Holyfield.
December 11: Winky Wright v. Grady Brewer
Wright's planned Puerto Rico comeback is a go, with Grady Brewer being named as his opponent. Brewer, a 38-year old former "Contender" winner, is an ugly fighter in terms of style, and so is Winky. All recommendation to avoid what should be a seriously action-less snoozefest, and potentially a downright stink bomb.
If you're wondering where you can catch the promising Jean Pascal-Adrian Diaconu rematch on December 11, that fight will be handled by GoFightLive.TV, probably for $9.99 as a webcast.
Anyone planning to order any of these shows? I'm going to buy Valuev-Haye and might convince myself to buy Wright-Brewer, but I'm not touching the other three.
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I’ll wait for SB to post the results.
by Haans Bishop on Oct 22, 2009 4:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I’ll pay for the Pascal vs Diaconu stream, definitely.
by Falstaff on Oct 22, 2009 5:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
How much for Valuev / Haye? Anyone?
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by Matt Miller on Oct 22, 2009 5:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Integrated’s shows are usually $24.95.
Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Oct 22, 2009 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I wish someone could learn how to market the internet PPVs better
With some of these smaller shows (like the Cintron show and the Camacho show) I almost feel like everyone is better off if they just make it a $10 or $15 internet PPV. They probably double the buyers, and then they don’t need to pay a cut over to the cable companies. They’re just not consistently marketed well, so they don’t tend to do good numbers. If it becomes a successful model, then I think it will also mean that we’ll get to see many more fights in the US. If it’s worth people’s while, they’ll start making fights like Adamek-Golota available for PPV. It’s happened some (i.e., Pascal-Branco, Fragomeni-Wlodarczyk), but there really isn’t any reason that every single major fight shouldn’t be available for purchase on the internet these days, especially if it’s already being televised somewhere else in the world.
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by Brickhaus on Oct 22, 2009 6:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
yeah pretty much
I firmly support Go Fight Live and their efforts in this area.
Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Oct 22, 2009 6:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
And lol @ De Jesus vs. Zab
If that name rings a bell for anyone, it’s because that’s who Yuriorkis Gamboa smashed in his first US fight.
Horrible match making right there.
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by Brickhaus on Oct 22, 2009 6:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Boxing is boxing to me. I love watching it. I usually get every PPV available to me. I got no problem paying $50. I sure as hell ain’t got no problem paying $25-$30. I don’t have Dish. So I doubt I’ll get the Cintron fight. But everything else, if available I’m getting.
by Violent Demise on Oct 22, 2009 8:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Even Camacho-Campas? That’s pretty hardcore.
Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Oct 22, 2009 8:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Haye-Valuev
Any word or rumour about the undercard? I checked boxrec and they’re just showing John Ruiz and a few even less notable fighters on there. I was hoping for a bigger fight in there somewhere but its probably wishful thinking on my part. I havn’t seen a German fight card with anything approaching the quality of an American undercard.
by Brett87 on Oct 23, 2009 1:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
As far as I know
It’s John Ruiz and prospects. Boxrec says Lyakhovich is on the undercard, but I’ll believe it when I see it. I wouldn’t be surprised if David Price, the Olympic medalist, makes it onto the undercard, as he’s promoted by Haye. Frenkel, Palacios and Groves are all decent prospects who will be getting showcase fights.
I don’t tend to think German undercards are that different from US undercards, just Americans aren’t going to recognize the names of the local draws and prospects. Also, they tend to frequently have prominent women’s bouts on the undercard, which rarely happens in the US.
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by Brickhaus on Oct 23, 2009 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Groves is pretty ok as a prospect and has a good ameteur pedigree. He beat JamesDe Gale a couple of times i think. They had a little spat over the who really deserved the place on the UK olympic team etc when they both turned pro.
David Price is now under Frank Maloney’s promo banner. I think it was largely because he only fought once under Haye in a year (after setanta went bust). He’s interviewed in this week’s Boxing News (UK Magazine). The UK boxing media is building up to a Price-Tyson Fury match that looks inevitable at some point.
by Brett87 on Oct 23, 2009 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Secondsouttv.com have just added Pascal vs Diaconu to their stream schedule. Odd. I guess they secured the UK rights or something, but since I’m in the UK and have bought gofightlive streams before, it does seem strange. Seems like a better idea to stream fights where you’re not competing with anyone.
by Falstaff on Oct 23, 2009 1:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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