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Question:

Is the heavyweight weight minimum still 175lbs?

Creed 2 got me thinking about it. I know in the 20's 75 was set at the minimum, and I don't think anything has officially changed that since, even with the advent of the LHW and Cruiser divisions. I use Roy weighing under the Cruiser limit for the Ruiz fight as a reference.
 
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It really is a bit strange that his Wilder vs Fury fight will be in Los Angeles.

Before the fight was unofficially announced after the Fury fight many ppl said it's not gonna be in England even though more ppl would show out there cause it's gonna be a Vegas PPV with hotel and casino revenues added for huge money and etc... Now correct me if I'm wrong but there won't be any of that extra casino and hotel money if it's in LA and they can only fill like 20k ppl there as opposed to some bigger UK stadium with 40-50k+ seats.

So how they get more by fighting in the US? Maybe because the PPV's are usually more expensive there? But then you would have to calculate in that if they don't ridiculously overrate Wilder's drawing power this won't be more than like 60-70 dollars and in the UK probably more ppl would buy the PPV. I mean if Whyte vs Parker did almost 500k there a Wilder vs Fury could do a million or more. Not sure how well it will do in the US, it might be a Ward vs Kovalev like flop what I don't really think but I don't think it will be anything close to 1million either.

Wilder does a little better than 1 million on regular Showtime, this gonna be his first PPV and Fury isn't a huge name like that in the US... Sure they gonna sell the shyt out of the fight and until then they gonna highlight 1000X that Fury beat Klitschko and hasn't lost in the ring so far but stilll it's hard for me to see it doing anything close to 1M. They can be happy with 300-400k imo... Canelo did 350k on his first "A side" PPV but he had a huge built in Mexican fanbase by then and he was coming off one of the more lucrative PPVs of the recent years against Mayweather. In short he was already a bigger deal than Wilder is now and still only did 350k... with the PPV price being only 50 bucks.

I don't think it's just because they didn't book in time cause sources said Mandalay Bay in Vegas was in the running but they chose the Staples at the end of the day.
 
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Scottie Drippin said:
Question:

Is the heavyweight weight minimum still 175lbs?

Creed 2 got me thinking about it. I know in the 20's 75 was set at the minimum, and I don't think anything has officially changed that since, even with the advent of the LHW and Cruiser divisions. I use Roy weighing under the Cruiser limit for the Ruiz fight as a reference.
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i mean technically you can fight for the heavyweight title at any weight since you dont have to make weight for it...but i dont think we are going to see any sub 200 heavyweight champions anytime soon lol
 
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aceboon said:
I'll probably drop HBO and download shows when I need to see em
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HBO is lucky i watch shows on that channel lol..they better keep that original programming on point if they dont want to lose my business...shame...end of an era..so it looks like jacobs vs derevyanchenko will be the last notable card they are airing
 
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Conscious Pilot said:
Wonder if Max Kellerman is gonna stay in the boxing realm.. maybe call the big fights for ESPN or something?
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I know alot of folks hate him but I'd take him over Tim Bradley and Mark Kriegel calling ESPN fights in a second, ESPN should have Ward calling fights instead of stuck behind the desk
 
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