By Chris Williams: Bob Arum is obviously excited about having his fighter Manny Pacquiao facing 39-year-old Shane Mosley on CBS/Showtime instead of HBO on May 7th, because it will allow Arum to take advantage of all the commercial advertisements that will be made on CBS to help market the 5/7 Pacquiao-Mosley pay-per-view event from Las Vegas, Nevada. However, I’m not so sure that’s a good thing. Coming from a former waiter/cook’s perceptive, I’ve seen a lot of customers turned off for good when they weren’t happy with the food they received or the service from other waiters.
I discovered that if they got a bad product, the customers were often lost for good. Frankly, I see the Pacquiao-Mosley fight as not just a bad product but a terrible one. To me, I see as selling a batch of old salmon way past it’s sell date and being served up to a lot of important new customers. I think this is a bad thing for boxing. Normally, I would see this as a good move by Arum, but only if he were willing to match Pacquiao up against a good fighter that is still in his prime and not someone that is totally shot like Mosley.
This fight is going to anger a lot of casual fans that will buy it in droves, some of them thinking that Mosley is still relevant. Once they find out he’s completely shot, they’re going to be angry and a lot of them will decide there and then that they’ve had it with purchasing fights on PPV. As such, this fight won’t be good for boxing I feel because it’s a bad product to be serving to fans. I can’t help seeing this through a customer service angle, because it taught be a valuable lesson early on. If I was Arum, I wouldn’t serve up this mismatch to all these unknowing fans who won’t have a clue how shot Mosley is until they’ve already paid their hard-earned money for the Pacquiao-Mosley PPV fight.
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