Henry Armstrong Reborn via upset. To steal from Bert Sugar…

“Sometime, somewhere, some celestial being, once said, ‘A good big man beats a good little man.’” “And I answer with, when Bob Fitzsimmons at 167 [pounds] knocked out James J. Corbett to win the heavyweight title [in 1897]: ‘The bigger they are the harder they fall.”

WAR PAC

For all that give him no shot this is far from the only occasion a smaller man has moved up and succeeded. Ray Robinson was well on his way to beating Joey Maxim for the LHW title had he not fainted from heat exhaustion in the blazing 110 degree heat. There are many more too. It will be a good fight no matter who wins, its no blowout.

There were a few fights that you could guarantee action from… Ward-Gatti, Vazquez-Marquez… and pretty much any fight Manny Pacquiao is in.

Plus the undercard has Juan Manuel Lopez who is incredible. I was stunned by how lighting fast he was able to KO Ponce De Leon.

I do think though they should have gone the route of UFC and had a big name undercard fight especially with the possibility of early stoppage due to size.

The problem with Boxing promoters is they figure one name is big enough to sell a show so why waste another when you could use that other name to sell a different show. That is also why there are so many fights that TV (HBO, Showtime, Versus, etc) can’t carry because there are only so many dates on the schedule that they can air this stuff and only so many names they want to promote.

I find it appalling how latino fans who are rather loyal to the sport get bilked monthly by having to pay to see Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. versus some stiff or another, or have to pay to see one fairly big name Mexican fighter defend an alphabet title against some no name guy. Instead of having a hot card with a bunch of these guys together, these promoters… namely Bob Arum, rip those fans off.

Putting together three guaranteed solid name fights with 2 young up and comer undercard fights would be the best way to go. Won’t happen because Boxing promoters are retarded, but it would help the sport sell more PPVs big time.

He’s on 35 and has PLENTY left. He’s just not going to make himself do anything but big money fights and if that means he fights smaller guys who are draws, then so be it. B/C he lost a close fight to the p4p king who juked, jived and ran all fight and lost to B-Hop is not evidence that a 35 year old who rarely took any “beatings” in his career has “very little left”.