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Crawford negotiating to fight Josesito Lopez and the little nyggaa try to say he's p4p over Spence?
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
It's Matchrooms business model. Besides the Boxing they run World Snooker have the PL/NBA of the Darts and run all the big 9 Ball Pool tournaments + other niche sports. Matchroom basically have a sporting event taking place every week.
Matchroom's first deal with Dazn wasnt even the Boxing it was for the Snooker rights.
Estrada: I'd Prefer Third Fight With Gonzalez Next Over Sor Rungvisai Rubber Match
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BY KEITH IDEC
Published Tue Mar 16, 2021, 09:24 AM EDT
Juan Francisco Estrada understands that he is obligated to fight Srisaket Sor Rungvisai next.
Sor Rungvisai, the mandatory challenger for Estrada’s WBC super flyweight title, stepped aside to allow Estrada to fight Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez again Saturday night in Dallas. If Estrada could choose his next opponent, however, he’d pick a third fight against Gonzalez over a rubber match with Sor Rungvisai.
“I definitely would want a [third] fight with Roman Gonzalez,” Estrada stated during a post-fight press conference following his controversial split-decision defeat of Gonzalez. “I’d prefer it over the Sor Rungvisai fight because [Sor Rungvisai is] more complicated and because he’s a lefty. But I’d surely wanna fight Roman Gonzalez again.”
Estrada defeated Sor Rungvisai by unanimous decision in their 12-round rematch in April 2019 to win the WBC 115-pound championship. Thailand’s Sor Rungvisai (50-5-1, 43 KOs) beat Estrada (42-3, 28 KOs) by majority decision in their first fight in February 2018 at The Forum in Inglewood, California, also the site of their rematch.
The Estrada-Gonzalez rematch was such a fantastic action fight, there figures to be high demand from fans and DAZN for an immediate third bout between them. That’s the route Eddie Hearn, whose company co-promotes Mexico’s Estrada, would like to take, yet he realizes Estrada’s mandatory defense against Sor Rungvisai is due.
Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing also promotes Sor Rungvisai.
“Well, we’ll sit down with Juan and the team, Latin Sports and Zanfer [Promotions],” said Hearn, who confirmed Gonzalez does not have a rematch clause in his contract. “And ultimately, the fans and the broadcasters normally decide what fight they wanna see. There’s gonna be huge demand from people to see the third fight [between Estrada and Gonzalez]. But he also has a [WBC] belt and he has a mandatory challenger. For me, I would like to see the third fight straight away. But it’s about the deal, it’s about the money, it’s about what Juan Estrada wants. And tonight, he’s the champion, and he gets to call the shots.”
Estrada acknowledged Gonzalez deserves a third bout because Estrada expected their rematch to result in a draw.
Instead, judges Carlos Sucre (117-111) and David Sutherland (115-113) scored their fight for Estrada. Sucre surprisingly scored nine rounds of a very competitive 12-rounder for Estrada, who retained his WBC crown and took the WBA belt from Gonzalez (50-3, 41 KOs).
Judge Jesse Reyes scored Gonzalez the winner, 115-113.
very telling estrada does not want to go through another fight with king sor
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
People be like oh Floyd boring but you'd be a fool to go into boxing and not study him
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Cruz is very strong but he need more head movement.
I damn near forgot about this
malbaker86
Gators
i think this event is gonna fall short on what they think it can be. I could be wrong. Ion think they can mask this bs even tho it’s an exo
KingOFKings
All Star
That was more of a testament to Mike Tyson and Jake Paul vs Nate Robinson than Triller’s marketing. What exactly did Triller do? Triller has 64k youtube followers..Triller is not a big platform yet.
Their IG and twitter following isn’t anywhere close to Sportscenter or ESPN (both post Top Rank material), they’re like 20-30 million followers away.
Top Rank alone has as many followers as Triller.
It was all Tyson vs Jones and Paul vs Nate that created the buzz, not Triller. What did Triller do?
Triller is more in tune than DAZN in North America, so I will give them the benefit of the doubt. I just don’t see it yet.
the first thing i raised an eyebrow on is the fact floyd is not going to do it on that platform fanmio anymore but let showtime handle it
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
The moment ruiz became a clinch machine.
triller is such a goofy platform to follow on twitter/IG..it amazes me how they made a significant stride into pro boxing