My wife wanted to rent the fight on PPV. I told her no way, learned my lesson renting fights with Mike Tyson.
You know what was a great fight that was on PPV recently, 11/19/2016, was for the light heavyweight championship between Sergey Kovalev and Andre Ward. Kovalev is one of the most devastating punchers in boxing and Ward is a boxer, but not in a classical sense. He takes away fighters best weapons and makes fights ugly by clinching and trying to land punches to the body. Andre Ward is also the last American to win a gold metal in men's boxing in the 2004 Olympics. The fight was a good fight, not great, but two highly skilled fighters and one with fight end punching power. Kovalev dropped Ward in the second round and IMO won 5 of the first 6 rounds. IMO Ward won 4 of the last 6. So I had Kovalev winning 7 to 5 in rounds, but because he gets an extra point for the knockdown in the second my final scorecard was 115-112 for Kovalev, however, Ward got the decision 114-113. So the official judges had it 7 to 5 in rounds for Andre Ward. I could accept that, but all three judges gave Ward the 10th round and IMO it was a round Kovalev clearly won. He landed more and was the aggressor and at worst he should've won with a score of 114-113. 80% of boxing writers had Kovalev winning the fight. Oh well, it was like it was a huge robbery.
There are a lot of great fights out there and don't let Tyson ever set any prescident for ordering fights MMA or pro boxing. He fought a lot of over matched opponents, when he finally fought guys who had decent skill and weren't afraid of him he lost. The first was to Buster Douglas in 1990. Then he was a huge favorite over Evander Holyfield in 1996, but Tyson was again stopped in the late rounds in a helluva fight. Of course the rematch where Tyson was again having trouble with Holyfield and bit Holyfield's ear twice. However, Holyfield had headbutted Tyson 6 times before Tyson got pissed and lost control.
If you a fan of boxing, even casual, some of the best fighters in the world are Vasyl Lomachenko, Terrence Crawford, Gennedy Golovkin, Andre Ward(even though I think he lost to Kovalev), Kovalev and Roman Gonzalez. Some heavyweight fighters to watch are Anthony Joshua, he was a 2012 Gold Medalist in the super heavyweight division in the Olympics, and is scheduled to fight Wladimir Klitschko, a Gold Medalist in the 1996 Olympics in the super heavyweight division. Klitschko was the lineal heavyweight champion of the world for 9 years, but because he is from a former republic of the USSR he didn't gain popularity in the states. He made 18 defensive straight of his titles before he lost to Tyson Fury in a dreadful fight in which Klitschko just seemed to give away his titles. Klitschko will be 41 when he fights Joshua who is 27, I fully expect Joshua to win.
There is an American fighter who holds a heavyweight title belt, I don't consider him a champion though his name is Deontay Wilder. As soon as he faces a decent opponent he will lose.
Anyway my favorite fighters are Vasyl Lomachenko and Terrence Crawford. Lomachenko won gold in 2008 and 2012 Olympics in boxing and won a world title in only his third pro fight, WBO featherweight title, which tied a record and then won his second world title at super feather in only his 7th pro fight, which broke record. He just recently took on the top contender in his division and beat him so bad that his opponent quit after the 7th round. Go to Youtube and watch Lomachenko's highlight reel. Also Lomachenko won the Val Barker award for the most outstanding boxer in the 2008 Olympics. it remains to see if he can become a crossover star in the US because he is from the Ukraine.
Terrence Crawford is from Omaha, Nebraska is my other favorite fighter and he keeps plowing through opponents like nothing. He doesn't look mean or act like an idiot like Mayweather, but he can fight. His nickname is Bud.
