May 3

HBO PPV - MGM Grand Las Vegas

Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Marcos Rene Maidana
Amir Khan vs. Luis Collazo

May 10

UFC Fight Night - Cincinatti

Matt Brown vs. Erick Silva

ESPN Boxing Los Angeles, California

Bermane Stiverne vs. Chris Arreola

May 17

Bellator 120 - Southaven, Mississippi

Eddie Alvarez vs. Michael Chandler
Quinton Jackson vs. Muhammed Lawal
Alexander Shlemenko vs. Tito Ortiz

HBO Boxing - Inglewood, California

Viktor Postol vs. Selcuk Aydin
Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Mike Alvarado

May 24

UFC 173 - MGM Grand Las Vegas

Renan Barão vs. T.J. Dillashaw
Dan Henderson vs. Daniel Cormier
Robbie Lawler vs. Jake Ellenberger
Takeya Mizugaki vs. Francisco Rivera

HBO Boxing - Corpus Christi, Texas

Bryant Jennings vs. Mike Perez
Daniel Geale vs. Matthew Macklin

Showtime Boxing - Montreal, Quebec

Adonis Stevenson vs. Andrzej Fonfara


May 31

UFC Fight Night - Berlin

Mark Muñoz vs. Gegard Mousasi

HBO Boxing - Wembley Stadium (!)

Carl Froch vs. George Groves
James DeGale vs. Brandon Gonzales

HBO Boxing - Macao

Nicholas Walters vs. Vic Darchinyan
Simpiwe Vetyeka vs. Nonito Donaire
Chris Avalos vs. Yasutaka Ishimoto

Plus Felix Sturm vs. Sam Soliman earlier in the day (not televised in the U.S)

Good month. No huge fights but a lot of potential for epic fights.

FOTY potentials.

Brown/Silva
Chandler/Alvarez
Robbie/Ellenberger

And watching Barao is always a treat. TJ is being rushed into this title shot big time. He looked great in his last fight and with another year or two to develop who knows. But as of right now he's in big trouble.

How many buys you guys think Bellator 120?

I'm going with like... 70k?

Doesn't the UFC need like 150k to break even? I wonder if the PPV is going to be profitable for them.

They either vastly overestimate how much people care about Tito/Rampage or I vastly underestimate it.

The cost of a PPV is also dependant upon the amount of advertising costs. With Bellator getting a nice platform on Spike it does get reduced.


Matt Brown is going to destroy this pretty boy and be offered a Title shot for being a finisher which will serve as an example to all other fighters that point fighting (Macdonald) and lay n pray (Hectar Lombard) will not get you a Title shot, finishing will.

I think TV advertising is free. The cable company takes 45% of the PPV take right off the top and part of the deal is they run commercials for the event.

I dont know how to embed but here is a video from yesterday regarding a glove controversy between Floyd and Maidana's team.

http://youtu.be/lI8K829pEaU

Silva will end all this Matt Brown hype

Not sure about that. Maybe if he goes for takedowns and tries to get the sub he probably takes Brown out. If he wants to brawl like he usually does though I think he's going to lose.

Brown is more technical on the feet, tougher, and way better cardio.

Mayweather-card starting now.

First fight is meh but then you have Broner in a rebuild fight, Khan vs. Collazo and Mayweather vs. Maidana.

floyd's celebration is excellent

UFC 176: Aldo vs Mendes 2

Electrified fence this time.

Except for the not sure part I agree with this post 100%.

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Totally forgot about the new thread

PartyGirl,

Could you please link or mention the new thread at the end of the old thread when you make the new one? I think a lot of people forget my self included.

This July-Lil Nog vs Rumble.

Nog will get killed if he doesn't pull out before.

I totally forgot Nog Vs. Rashad even happened. What the hell did that fight look like?

They played pattycake for 3 rounds

Anthony looked incredible in his last fight, bu lil nog ain't phil. His boxing is 10x better than Phils. If Anthony wants to stand like he almost always does then I think this is a relatively close fight.

Basically Nog used distance and didn't engage because he didn't want to get countered with Rashads wrestling. It was actually pretty impressive since it completely shut down Rashads wrestling game.

On the flip side Rashad didn't wanna engage in the striking with lil nog to set up take downs in fear of being countered with boxing.

So they basically did **** all for 3 rounds with lil nog landing like 3-4 strikes a round and being the winner lol.

I can see why I don't remember it.

I hope the line reflects this so I can hammer AJ.