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wonderfullife wrote: » Just my 2 cents but it wouldn't hurt the UFC to try get a new PPV deal next time they re-negotiate it - specifically to include dynamic pricing for their PPV's. Charging $60 for McGregor v Alvarez at MSG with a great undercard. Charging $60 for Holm v de Randamie and a muck undercard. I don't know if it would ultimately work in their favour but off the top of my head it feels like a good idea to lower the price of the weaker PPV's. It might not change much financially but it would almost certainly result in more eyeballs on the event that night and far more publicity for the fighters in action.
Deleted User wrote: » This 100% Its the same in soccer when the pundits go back in slow motion and say "he should have done this here" etc.... It's all done in fractions of a second and its just instinct, he didn't have time to think "Bisping is down, I better get one more in". He was just making sure he won the fight, was a brutal last punch though.
MartyMcFly84 wrote: » There are over the counter supplements in the states that are stocked beside protein powders that are on the USADA banned list.
Depp wrote: » yeah but trt isnt one of them
Lukker- wrote: » You're going to the wrong supplement shops
HenryHill wrote: » Name a supplement that mimics trt (genuinely interested)
Mellor wrote: » TRT is the treatment/therapy, what they are taking is simply testosterone, the most fundamental anabolic steroid there is. The only things that while replicate testosterone are other anabolic steroids, or similar drugs. I don't think you can pick up that sort of stuff OTC anymore. Test boosters, legal-steroids, or anything with a suggestive name is most likely bollox. The WADA banned stuff you can get OTC is most likely stimulant type stuff. An olympic swimmer a few years failed a drug test due to a vicks inhaler (contained amphetamines)
raze_them_all_ wrote: » You would be amazed by the sheer amount of professional rugby soccer tennis and cyclists that seem to have asthma!
To my fellow #boxing fans: I write in the hopes that together we can protect the sport of boxing. With each passing day, it looks more and more likely that the circus known as Floyd Mayweather Vs. Conor McGregor will be coming to town in the near future. As undercard fights start to take form, athletic commissions give their blessings in exchange for millions of dollars and the fighters start counting even more cash, one group will eventually be left to make sure this farce doesn’t occur. We, the fans, who are the lifeblood of our sport. Boxing is starting to dig out of the hole that Floyd and Manny Pacquiao shoveled by waiting seven years to put on a fight that ended up being as dull as it was anti-climactic. 2017 has started off as a banner year for boxing. Joshua vs. Klitschko; Thurman vs. Garcia; Golovkin vs. Jacobs; Canelo vs. Chavez. All four of these fights – and many more -- have brought the fight game back and reinvigorated interest from the ever-elusive casual fan. But if you thought Mayweather/Pacquiao was a black eye for our sport – a matchup between two of the best pound-for-pound fighters that simply didn’t deliver -- just wait until the best boxer of a generation dismantles someone who has never boxed competitively at any level – amateur or professional. Our sport might not ever recover. I fully understand the initial attraction from any fan of combat sports. McGregor is almost certainly the best pound-for-pound MMA fighter. Floyd is Floyd — the most dominant boxer of his time. But success in one sport does not guarantee success in another. Far from it. And let’s be clear, these are two different sports -- from the size of the gloves fighters wear, to the size and shape of the ring, to the fact the one sport allows combatants to use their legs to strike. Think about it, beyond Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders, what other athlete has successfully competed in two sports in the modern age? And Jackson and Sanders both played both baseball and football throughout their high school and college careers before going professional. Furthermore, it’s not like McGregor would be fighting a good fighter, let alone a mediocre one. He would be fighting the best. To use a bit of an extreme analogy, I happen to be a pretty good golfer. Could I potentially hold my own on one of the second-tier tours? Maybe. But would I be able to compete with Rory McIlroy, Jordan Speith or Sergio Garcia? Of course not. Nor would I think to try. Now, I know critics will say that I’m only writing this letter because my company is promoting what will be the culmination of an outstanding boxing year when Canelo Alvarez takes on Gennady “GGG” Golovkin in September, and I don’t want anything to distract attention away from that fight. But my interest is in the health of boxing as a whole. It always has been. And if Floyd were to come out of retirement to take on someone like Keith “One–time” Thurman, Errol Spence or some other top welterweight, not only would I applaud the fight, I’d be the first one on line for a ticket. That kind of fight is what the fans – and I am a fan first -- deserve. Which brings me back to the circus. Floyd’s and Conor’s motivation is clear. It’s money. In fact, they don’t even pretend it’s not. But it’s also a lack of consequences for when the fight ends up being the disaster that is predicted. After this fight, neither of them will need us anymore. Floyd will go back to retirement -- presumably for good this time with another nine-figure paycheck -- and Conor will go back to the UFC. It’s a win-win for them. It’s a lose-lose for us. We’ll be $100 lighter and we will have squandered another opportunity to bring boxing back to its rightful place as the sport of kings. At this point, only we can shut the circus down by making it clear that we won’t pay to see a joke of a fight and telling our casual-fan friends that they shouldn’t either. Sincerely, Oscar
Outlaw Pete wrote: » Oscar ain't happy about the possibility there could be a Mayweather v McGregor bout anyway.
Swashbuckler wrote: » He's 100% right.
cletus wrote: Except that the real issue is he's not getting the promoters cut
Swashbuckler wrote: » I don't disagree with anything he said to be honest. Maybe he has a motive. Maybe not. He's still right
spix wrote: » Besides the obvious motive when he says "Our sport might not ever recover" makes me think Oscar is afraid that mcgregor might beat mayweather and give a bad name to boxers. What else could he mean by not ever recover?
Burial. wrote: » Boxing isn't dying. 2017 thus far has been the best year for Boxing in years and there are some mega fights still to happen later this year. Please don't be so ignorant.
ricero wrote: » Boxing has been stale for years. 2017 is the buck in the trend for a sport thats being in slow motion since pacquio vs mayweather. Sure golovkins last ppv flopped badly i think even ufc 208 with holly holm even sold more. Fans began to get pissed off with fighters ducking each other, uncompetitive fights and greedy promoters. One thing i love about the ufc over boxing is that us fans get what we want 99% of the time
Grizzly Bear11 wrote: » You are talking nonsense, the three biggest PPV sales in history were in 2007, 2013 and 2015. Now you have exciting boxers like Anthony Joshuy, Golovkin, Canelo, Spence, Thurman, Brook, lomachenko etc. You couldn't be more wrong. Boxing is flourishing right now.
Jamiekelly wrote: » [http://www.totalsportek.com/money/highest-grossing-boxing-ppv-fights-of-all-times/ PPVs say differently.
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