(03-29-2016, 07:43 PM)Msreef Wrote: I don't feel the hatred towards Duco is justified. Sure, the Martz and Bergman fights were pretty disappointing (especially the Martz fight - in retrospect, the Bergman fight wasn't too terrible).
They clearly wanted Parker to step up, they just couldn't do it, as they didn't have the dollars. Now that the Takam Parker fight has been forced on them, they've managed to secure it, in little old NZ. Good on them. I just hope that after the Takam fight, if Parker wins, the quality of opponents doesn't drop right down again before he faces the Martin/Joshua winner.

(03-29-2016, 08:58 PM)tm7 Wrote: I agree die, without Duco, Joe would be not be internationally recognised or the household name he is in NZ. Not even close. Imagine the NZ boxing scene if Duco hadn't brought it into the mainstream. Eddie Hearn and Matchroom get the same slack here in the UK but the fact everyone wants to fight in Britain is because of him alone.


tm7 is on the money here.
Without the success of Duco there would be no big bash on sky sport, no vs live which means there would have been no super 8s and no Cameron v Kali and the media would not be giving boxing all this love.
Do I agree with everything Duco do??? I don't even need to answer that... the Teina Pora v "a cop" was an absolute disgrace!
But there is no doubting the success of Duco has indirectly led to success for others and created plenty of interest in other boxing shows around New Zealand and Australia from casual sports fans that had died following Tua knocking out Cameron.
There would probably be no Hemi Ahio or Juniot Fa either,
Ducos undercards are terrible and usually full of mismatches but Samoa was the best yet so lets hope they keep improving. At the end of the day they are pretty new to it and working in area where the size of the fighter fools are tiny so lets hope things can get more interesting on their undercards.
I do think they have stuffed up by giving Parker two easy opponents leading into the toughest fight of his career though.
Also I get that Butterbean will be on the card but sometimes he is the fight before Jo or usually before the co-main and that cannot happen in front of a worldwide audience. if there is six fights he needs to be either the opener of second up.

(03-30-2016, 12:11 AM)justafan Wrote:

(03-29-2016, 08:58 PM)tm7 Wrote: I agree die, without Duco, Joe would be not be internationally recognised or the household name he is in NZ. Not even close. Imagine the NZ boxing scene if Duco hadn't brought it into the mainstream. Eddie Hearn and Matchroom get the same slack here in the UK but the fact everyone wants to fight in Britain is because of him alone.


tm7 is on the money here.
Without the success of Duco there would be no big bash on sky sport, no vs live which means there would have been no super 8s and no Cameron v Kali and the media would not be giving boxing all this love.
Do I agree with everything Duco do??? I don't even need to answer that... the Teina Pora v "a cop" was an absolute disgrace!
But there is no doubting the success of Duco has indirectly led to success for others and created plenty of interest in other boxing shows around New Zealand and Australia from casual sports fans that had died following Tua knocking out Cameron.
There would probably be no Hemi Ahio or Juniot Fa either,
Ducos undercards are terrible and usually full of mismatches but Samoa was the best yet so lets hope they keep improving. At the end of the day they are pretty new to it and working in area where the size of the fighter fools are tiny so lets hope things can get more interesting on their undercards.
I do think they have stuffed up by giving Parker two easy opponents leading into the toughest fight of his career though.
Also I get that Butterbean will be on the card but sometimes he is the fight before Jo or usually before the co-main and that cannot happen in front of a worldwide audience. if there is six fights he needs to be either the opener of second up.