By Scott Gilfoid: American boxing fans won’t get the opportunity to see the April 27th fight between American heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder (27-0, 27 KO’s) and Audley Harrison (31-6, 23 KO’s) on Showtime because they’re only going to be showing highlights of the fight, according to Dan Rafael.
This has got to hurt the U.S. boxing fans that were hoping to see the fight in full because it would give the American boxing fans a glimpse of what could be a future heavyweight champion in Deontay Wilder. Just getting to see highlights isn’t good enough for the U.S fans because they want to see the entire fight.
The reason why the Wilder-Audley fight won’t be shown in it’s entirety is because Showtime’s boxing telecast that night will start off with the Zab Judah vs. Danny Garcia and Peter Quillin vs. Fernando Guerrero fights at the Barclays Center in Brookly, New York. Immediately after those two fights take place the coverage will switch to the tape delay bout between Amir Khan and Julio Diaz from Sheffield.
With Showtime televising three fights on April 27th, they won’t have time to air the Wilder-Harrison fight in full. In the best possible worlds you’d like to think that they might choose to televise the Wilder-Harrison fight if the Judah-Garcia, Quillin-Guerrero and Khan-Diaz fights all end in early knockouts, but I still think they won’t do it. Instead, we’d like here a lot of jabbering from the talking heads at Showtime followed by a massive amount of time-wasting replays of the knockouts and then end of the telecast.
I honestly don’t care two figs about seeing the mismatches between Khan and Diaz and Quillin and Guerrero. Those fights were won the moment the contracts were signed for the fights.
Diaz, 33, is just another 2nd tier fighter for Khan to look good against to get him to the finals in one piece of Golden Boy’s four-fighter light welterweight tournament, and Quillin has a mismatch against Guerrero after turning down a fight against Gennady Golovkin.
If you remember Guerrero, he was the guy that recently knocked out by 41-year-old Grady Brewer 2011. It’s interesting that Guerrero gets knocked out and is given a world title shot against Quillin. That’s good matchmaking, Golden Boy. I don’t see that fight as being worthy of being televised on Showtime or ESPN2.
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