Anyone stay for this? I thought it was pretty cool. Lots of places to get a good view of the bouts, w/o getting the special seating. The fights were pretty fast-paced, plenty of action and the local hero got a KO in the premier event. Revs McCarthy & Soares, KA and DBarnes showed up to watch. Shawn Thornton of the Broons was also another visible presence with the O'Connor Crew. Very colorful crowd!
No, but what is a joke is your thinking that putting anything and everything down makes you somehow feel superior. Sad.
How many people actually hung around? I know I left after the game to tailgate, but noticed a few of the supporters were still inside.
I'm gonna take a WAG of about 500 there altogether. I think a fair number came just for the fight, although there were a large number of Revs jerseys inside and outside the ringside section.
Agreed. We've given up on soccer so we've moved on to other sports in hopes of getting bodies out to the man mall. I don't see the cross-promotional benefit for the Revs and the fact that organizational assets were used towards this fight while there are clearly problems with the club does not sit well with me. I'm probably be oversensitive but as a season ticket holder I'm allowed to be.
Marketing department seemed far more interested in this than anything Revs related this season. The first two stories on the Revolution's website are talking about boxing.
Yeah, I feel so superior that I've posted something to the internet. Also, coming from you is basically the height of hilarity. This entire boxing circus was a joke. For someone who claims to only be interested in the game on the field, I'm surprised you were lured in by such a sideshow. I'd never guess you to contradict yourself.
The thing that bugs me most about the boxing "doubleheader" was it was the brainchild of a FO that cracked down on YSA chants. So naughty words are verboten, but having a bunch of grown men smacking the hell out of each other is family-friendly entertainment? Those're some mixed messages right there, Revs.
Did you actually expect anyone to agree with you? Part of me thinks you work for the Revs, and another part thinks that you're simply obtuse. Actually, I'm not sure there's a difference between the two.
And yet, for all their supposed "family friendly" mandates for us, the powers that be allowed them to set up a stand not 200 feet from the ring selling "Asskicker" t-shirts.
Well of course, they probably made some money off it. If the Fort had sold YSA shirts that the Revs/Kraft could make money off, it would probably be OK all of a sudden.
Yeah, I did. Silly me. There were plenty of people disguised as Revs fans clearly enjoying themselves.
Strange. If you went to purchase 'boxing seats' on TicketMaster, the stadium map showed 'The Ring' in the stage area, on the field, in the end zone -- not tucked up underneath the second level seats on the concourse. The folks around me at midfield spotted the ring in the strange location and kept repeating ... "No way, they must be moving it, it can't be". All of whom promptly left after the Revs defeat.
Boxing and soccer? Really? Unless I'm missing something, Rev marketing has lost the plot and is now throwing ideas against the wall to see what sticks.
So they really did have the ring set up under the stands on the concourse, next to the New Hampshire Sausage stand? I guess I should never to assume something like this is a joke. So it must have been tough to manage the logistics of moving all those people who bought the expensive "ringside" seats to a bleacherless stage, huh? Question: Back in the Old Days when boxing was a huge sport, they used to hold fights in huge outdoor stadiums in front of massive crowds. I can't imagine what the view from the last row of the bottom deck in Yankee Stadium would have been for the Joe Louis - Max Schmelling fight. Not like they had any video screens or nuffin then. So what would happen if it rained? I never heard of fights being rained out, but from a competitive/fairness and safety perspective, even a light drizzle would make footing pretty slippery and takign a punch that would be no problem all of a sudden becomes the knockout punch. Where is Eric Spurlock? I bet he would know....
Well the Revs aren't really relavent to the game of soccer, so I often wonder why there is a whole forum dedicated to them here in Bigsoccer.com
Man. You people really know how to suck the fun out of following this team or reading anything on these boards. You all should go find a different hobby, something other than constantly trolling around on here.