"Stay On The Ropes and Shoulder Roll Into Every Punch Brehs" Berto v Porter SHOWTIME Fight Thread

[Bleed The Freak]

He should fight Bradley stop him and end his chapter, while Thurman sit on the shelf gain 30 pounds and2 pretend like he's waiting for a fight he damn hell know won't happen

What the heck is Bradley up to anyways? That fight is a tossup...could be decent or totally unwatchable.

 

[Knicksman20]

He should fight Bradley stop him and end his chapter, while Thurman sit on the shelf gain 30 pounds and pretend like he's waiting for a fight he damn hell know won't happen

Thurman's looking to unify. He's waiting on Pac (long shot fight) but the fight I think he's realistically waiting on is the Brook/Spence winner.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

Thurman's looking to unify. He's waiting on Pac (long shot fight) but the fight I think he's realistically waiting on is the Brook/Spence winner.

Which he absolutely should. Let Porter go after Khan or Garcia.

 

[patscorpio]

I wouldn't call it "hating" as much as it's sloppy as fukk. I enjoy brawlers as much as anyone else (Kirkland in his prime, Maidana, Hatton, Corrales etc) and at least when they fought there was some enjoyment and " oh shyt" that I felt happened....and it wasn't a nikka just pushing his head into someone with the ref constantly breaking it up because of it.

Much of it is due to the limitations of Berto and his questionable approach to these tactics....at some point the bill comes due and Porter will get laid out (ala Punisher) or take a horrific beating with a pistol of a jab or counters. He's in tremendous shape and has the physical stature to fight like this at WW but it's not even beautiful ugly (like Ward can be) or fun brawling ( like Froch or Kessler)....it just looks like a nikka pushing someone against a wall with his head...it's fukkin terrible. I don't knock being a fan of him to each his own but this shyt sucks to see as a fan.

This nikka is the Sakio Bika of WW's...totally must watch TV for all the wrong reasons.

WW version of Bika....accurate comparison lol

 

[Bleed The Freak]

WW version of Bika....accurate comparison lol

Thank you! It's 100% accurate...a nikka with not the best technical talent who beats B-/C+ fighters and resorts to godforsaken dirty shyt as plan A,B, C thru muthafukkin Z.....decent chin and decent win for the "A" fighter....but unwatchable.

 

[Black_Jesus]

Thank you! It's 100% accurate...a nikka with not the best technical talent who beats B-/C+ fighters and resorts to godforsaken dirty shyt as plan A,B, C thru muthafukkin Z.....decent chin and decent win for the "A" fighter....but unwatchable.

What B fighters Bika beat?

 

[Bleed The Freak]

What B fighters Bika beat?

Not a damn soul. It's more the style comparison I was making...both are unwatchable.

His fights with Darrell are just as bad as Porters with his headbutts.

 

[patscorpio]

Not a damn soul. It's more the style comparison I was making...both are unwatchable.

His fights with Darrell are just as bad as Porters with his headbutts.

The first bika-dirrell was live as fukk and dirty lol...the last fight I correctly predicted a draw on. but I put no money on it

The second fight was horrible and dirty lol

 

[Bleed The Freak]

The first bika-dirrell was live as fukk and dirty lol...the last fight I correctly predicted a draw on. but I put no money on it

The second fight was horrible and dirty lol

There was a slight part of enjoyable fukkery for that first fight cause it was such a hot mess....2nd was atrocious.

 

[patscorpio]

Porter-Berto Bout Drew Average of 468,000 Viewers on Showtime

By Keith Idec

An average of 468,000 viewers watched Showtime’s broadcast of the Shawn Porter-Andre Berto welterweight fight Saturday night from Brooklyn.

The average viewership was lower than the two previous main events Showtime televised in prime time this year, according to figures released by Nielsen Media Research.

The previous main event Showtime aired in prime time, Adrien Broner’s split-decision defeat of Adrian Granados, drew an average of 779,000 viewers February 18 from Cincinnati. Three weeks earlier, Leo Santa Cruz’s majority-decision defeat of Carl Frampton in their featherweight championship rematch, averaged 587,000 viewers from Las Vegas.

The decline in ratings for the Porter-Berto show, a rarity in what thus far has been a strong 2017 for Showtime’s boxing programming, could’ve partially been attributable to competition from NBA playoff games that generated strong ratings while airing at the same time.

The San Antonio-Memphis game, which began at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN, averaged 3.4 million viewers. The Golden State-Portland game, which started at 11 p.m. ET on ESPN, drew an average viewership of 4.3 million.

The Porter-Berto broadcast began at 9:30 p.m. ET and ended just before 11:20 p.m. ET.

Showtime’s doubleheader began with Jermell Charlo’s spectacular sixth-round knockout of Charles Hatley at Barclays Center. An average of 401,000 viewers watched Houston’s Charlo (29-1, 14 KOs) make the first defense of his WBC super welterweight title against Dallas’ Hatley (26-2-1, 18 KOs), his mandatory challenger.

Porter (27-2-1, 17 KOs), of Akron, Ohio, stopped Berto (31-5, 24 KOs), of Winter Haven, Florida, in the ninth round of the main event. His victory in their WBC elimination match made Porter the mandatory challenger for WBC welterweight champion Keith Thurman (28-0, 22 KOs, 1 NC), who beat Porter by unanimous decision in an entertaining battle June 25 at Barclays Center.