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Seems like a typhoon hits the PI every time Manny fights. Had a big one last year before the JMM fight as well. Remember nonito upset with Jim lampley when he mentioned the typhoon as manny was laying in the ground.
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I know we all want GGG vs Ward, probably won't happen yet. What about a potential match with Adonis Stevenson?
Ward is the number 2 fighter in the world but couldn't close the show. Couldn't sell out a small venue in his own state. He's not even close to sniffing a PPV in the near future. No one wants to fight him.
Rodriguez got shut out. At best he won one round (I gave him the first round out of pity). He couldn't make weight and lost 20-45% of his earnings.
The only winner tonight was the referee.
Ward is the number 2 fighter in the world but couldn't close the show. Couldn't sell out a small venue in his own state. He's not even close to sniffing a PPV in the near future. No one wants to fight him.
Rodriguez got shut out. At best he won one round (I gave him the first round out of pity). He couldn't make weight and lost 20-45% of his earnings.
The only winner tonight was the referee.
I like andre Ward and honestly feel bad for him....but the HBO slurp-fest on him :x. The fight starts and Max Kellerman (who i admittedly love) says he would have sold out if it was closer to his home.....aka an hour south of the venue they were fighting in. Like really his fan base only shows up if the fight is in a 50 mile radius....not 60...60 is too far. And all the announcers saying that he shook Rodriguez and hurt him a couple times...a couple great stiff jabs and 2 hooks....Edwin wasn't "hurt" at any point in the fight. Then max gets in the ring and says "Andre you won every round by a large margin"....oh uh the cards say otherwise 2 judges gave rounds to Edwin....just seemed disrespectful to Edwin. Granted after missing weight he wasn't really deserving of a ton of respect...but still at least say "andre WE had you winning every round by a large margin" because the official score keepers did not.
Ward fights as "boring" as mayweather does but Floyd has marketed himself insanely well...Andre is just too nice and too normal. He won't see any PPV anytime soon
Should be a super exciting fight if Manny and Bam Bam stick to their trademark styles and slug it out. Much to the chagrin of their trainers.
repped for the info i didn't know they were that close i thought they said it was real close.
They should hold all of his fights in Oakland then if that is the case. It sucks that the basically consensus Number 2 pound-for-pound fighter in the world sees multi million dollars less then the pound-for-pound num 1.
Ward Dawson In Oakland
The event sold 7,611 tickets at Oracle Arena, for a gate of $706,469. 1,308 tickets were comped to pad the crowd a little bit, but for recent California cards, that's nothing.
Ward Rodriguez
Reportedly sold 4,158
The tyson doc was hilarious. It was way better then i thought it would be. Mike was engaging the whole time, energetic, natural, nothing seemed too forced. I really liked it.
When he made fun of robbin givens and the whole brad pitt thing
When he put on the wig
The Teddy Atlas situation
Found the Ward vs GGG talk interesting. Ward seems to think that GGG's camp doesn't want the fight at 168 (which i don't blame them considering GGG fought Stevens at what 154?) Thats a big step up especially when you are fighting Andre Ward. But I am hoping they could maybe get it to a catch weight. I guess Ward is going to fight Frotch next again? (assuming Frotch wins his next fight).