By Chris Williams: I’m still trying to figure out why Bob Arum made the Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Sergiy Fedchenko and Brandon Rios vs. Richard Abril split site card a pay-per-view card that will be going for $44.95 on April 14th on HBO. I love boxing but I don’t like paying that kind of money to see a couple of mismatches.

Does anyone honestly thing that the light hitting Abril can beat a slugger like Rios? That’s not going to happen because Abril doesn’t have the power to give Rios any problem. The 38-year-old Marquez is in the same boat here. He’s in the same boat as Rios, facing a weak puncher in 30-year-old Fedchenko.

The Ukrainian born Fedchenko simply can’t punch hard enough to trouble Marquez and it’s going to be a sickening mismatch with Marquez making easy work of slaughtering Fedchenko in this PPV card.

Here’s the deal. I think the Rios vs. Abril and Marquez vs. Fedchenko a little bit overpriced. If I was an assessor, I’d give it a value of $0 dollars. I don’t see either fight as being worth even a dime. They’re mismatches in a day and age where boxing fans have a lot of other distractions that are more appealing than dumping cash needlessly on mismatches. A fight between Rios and Marquez is a pay per view worthy fight, but one of those lower priced ones in the $20s, because Rios still isn’t a big name. He’s an undercard fighter in my view, and not popular enough to sell a fight between him and Marquez as a PPV bout. But that’s not what’s happening here. Arum has made this a PPV bout for pretty big money in what appears to be two mismatches. Do you think Fedchenko can beat Marquez? If so, then you see to watch how Kaizer Mabuza handled Fedchenko.