This week, PBC confirmed the Carneiro Alvarez vs. Jimmy Monguia match, and the result caused a huge controversy, as many felt that the quality of the PPV live broadcast, which required $70 to watch, was seriously inconsistent with the quality of the main event, and some fans even called it a garbage event.
Alvarez vs. Monguia will be played in Las Vegas on May 4, when Alvarez will defend all four of the 168-pound super middleweight belts, but when the mat match was announced, the public didn't buy it, again because the quality of the mat match was not good, which made it not worth the $70 purchase.
Boxing columnist Gippers Isaac said: If you are a PBC, the priority is to save the sinking ship, and unfortunately the PBC did not do that.
Normally, in any major boxing event, the mat match is just as eye-catching, either a high-quality championship bout or a different confrontation that can get fans pumping, but people didn't see that in Alvarez vs. Monguia.
According to the information released by PBC, there are three competitions that will follow Alvarez and Monguia for PPV paid live broadcasts, namely:
WBC Transitional Welterweight Championship Fight – Mario Barrios vs Fabian Madana.
Barrios is a second-rate fighter whose so-called WBC interim title has been derided as a "trinket," and fans have no more memory of Barrios than being knocked out by Gwotta "The Tank" Davis and losing to Keith Thurman, who was past his prime.
The only name of the fighter who challenged Barrios is the younger brother of former World Champion Marcus Madana, but unlike his older brother, he has never faced a top fighter and is not in the top 15 in the WBA rankings, so he can't guess what qualified him to challenge for the title.
WBC过渡羽量级拳王赛——布兰登-菲格罗亚VS杰西-玛格达诺
Figueroa is a good fighter, but unfortunately not in the type that people would expect, so in the minds of fans, his fights are to be watched or not, so at this point, the situation is very clear. Magdano, a former world champion who fought Figueroa, is also a type that cannot arouse the interest of fans, and Figueroa and Magdano have not appeared for more than a year before the fight, and their matches are really difficult to attract public attention.
WBA Ordinary Welterweight Championship Bout – Emmatas Starnos vs. Gabriel Mastro
This is the only "World Title" fight in this PPV paid live broadcast, except for Alvarez vs Monguia, but fans have labeled it as "mediocre".
Defending champion Stagios hasn't played for two years, while his opponent Mastro is 37 years old and has only completed eight professional fights – six wins, one draw and five knockouts – so the pair is just as disappointing and frustrating.
Judging from the above events, PBC is more like a cheap project, rushing to start in order to save money, but it doesn't make fans feel that paying out of pocket is worth it. Of course, it's impossible for the PBC not to be aware of this problem, and there are reports that they originally planned to arrange for IBF welterweight champion Jason Ennis to appear in the mat match, which was really eye-catching, but for various reasons, it didn't happen, so now a series of events, except for Alvarez vs. Monguia, the rest of the matches can only be watched.