Pacquiao-Clottey Undercard Is Unacceptable
By Dafydd Thomas of The Boxing Tribune
Continuing with The Boxing Tribune's preview of Pacquiao-Clottey, Dafydd Thomas writes about how he hopes Bob Arum and Bruce Trampler's horrific choice of undercard fights will come back to haunt them.
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I Love This Undercard
What more can you ask for in today’s game? All action fighters in relatively competitive match ups. I haven’t seen an undercard that promises this much action in years.
Seriously?
For something that’s billed as ‘The Event’, and costy you $50, you’re pleased with not one significant fight. Not one making any difference to any set of rankings, titles, etc. all fourth-tier or below. Soto-Diaz isn’t competitive, John vs. Michael is a farce on PPV, while I’m slightly interested in Castillo-Gomez.
I mentioned that hardcore fans are easily pleased, I think I was right!
You picked this card to complain about? Who cares about significance on the under card of a fight involving one of the two best fighters in the world? Give me action on the under card 8 days a week.
Would you be pleased if Cory Spinks vs Yuri Foreman was the co-feature? That’s a unification tussle that I wouldn’t watch with your eyes.
My apologies if you were sucked in by Top Ranks slogan, but this card promises to deliver a lot of action. Duddy vs Dude will be a war, I agree that Soto will hammer Diaz but I guarantee it wont be boring. I remember when Duran/palomino was an undercard fight on a $20 closed circuit event, I’m not saying it measures up to olden times. But it’s better than anything seen in a long time under a star. I would advise you to pick your battles wiser or go back and watch the prefights for Pac/DLH again, maybe that will help.
Okay article, man, but...
This undercard may not have much significance for an event this big, but it does have some fights that’s sure to deliver some action and it’s definitely not worse than the Pacquiao-Cotto PPV card, like you’ve said… Yeah, not the best example of what you’re trying to say.
There have been much worse undercards recently
With worse main event fights. Do I wish it had a better undercard? Yes. If it had a solid undercard, I’d definitely buy, and right now I’m on the fence. But I find it amusing that there have been a bunch of articles that are all takes on the same theme for this card, when the undercard on paper is much better than, say, Calzaghe-Jones, Pac-Hoya, Pac-Hatton, Pac-Cotto, Mayweather-Baldomir, etc.
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Better undercard than Hatton-Pacquiao and Oscar-Pacquiao had, IMO. Actually better than Cotto-Pacquiao too. I wish it was better, too, but this is the best undercard of Pacquiao’s last four fights.
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Never mind the undercard the main event isn't that good
First of all Duddy shoud be fighting better opposition by now. Of course Bob Arum is protecting another fighter of his just like he’s done with so many including Pavlik and Pacquiao yes I said Pacquiao.
Why I say Pacquiao simply because of what happened recently with Floyd. I blame it not only on Pacquiao but his promoter Arum who didn’t want the fight to begin with.
Now Gomez Vs. Castillo should be good, a war at least I hope so although Castillo is pretty much on his way out. I believe there will be blood in this fight, lots of action let’s just hope so.
Soto Vs. Diaz is a mismatch. Diaz was a shot fighter even before facing Pacquiao just imagine him now. Diaz doesn’t stand a chance, La Zorrita will stop him early, I just can’t see this fight lasting the distance.
In the end I agree this undercard isn’t what I expected yet I must say it’s probably better than the main event itself.
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