Apparently neither did anyone else.

I did! The first episode featured an unknown South Texas fighter up against a champion east coast fighter---and the Texas guy kicked his ass!

The show is really hard to watch though, you start to like these guys (the east coast champ had a devoted wife and a sweet little girl and the Texas guy's family showed up from Mexico to watch him fight) and then they go beat each other up. I liked it a lot though...I think viewing will pick up when word gets out.

Boxing's still hard to watch though.

After watching Oscar De La Hoya's "Contender" type show on FSN a while back I thought this would be much of the same but I was actually impressed with this show. I thought the first show was done very well (great personal story's and good boxing match). By the way...when is the next episode? Its fun watching "ROCKO" get excited about boxing!

this show (at least the first episode) is very entertaining. light years ahead of "next great champ"

I think it's on again Thursday and then starts on Sunday regularly.

I didn't see it, but I was wondering if it was weird watching the show knowing one of them is dead now?

Yeah, Najai Turpin...when I was watching the show I didn't know his name so he didn't really make an impression on me.

Here's a link to an article about it:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/21/tv.contender.suicide.ap/

To those of you who saw the show: Wasn't the boxing match just gut-wrenching? And how did you pick who to root for?


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I thought the show was good. Admittedly, I missed the first part, and caught most of the fight. I'll keep watching and see if it stays as good.

I thought it was a great show. You do really get attached to those guys, and its hard to watch them lose their dream. I was rooting for the Texas kid, he wanted to take down the best 'East' fighter on the first night, and looking at him you wouldn't think he stood a chance.

Alfonso Gomez! Yeah, I just had to pull for him, too. I felt for the guy with the kid, but Alfonso showed a lot of heart and ambition by volunteering to fight the "toughest" east coast fighter. He's like Rudy, with talent!

I think this is one of the very best reality shows ever produced. It is a shame not many people are watching it. I think most boxing fans would appreciate the show.

i'm a big boxing fan and the fights have been good. the problem is that the fights only make up about 5 minutes of the show. the rest of it has pretty much sucked imho. last night was some trash talk followed by a lame challenge followed by some lame family stuff, with 5 minutes of boxing at the end. the first 50 minutes had very little "boxing" in it. it was a pretty good fight where they were both landing some shots, and i definitely would have enjoyed seeing more than what they showed (less than 1/3). this show should be onto the fight by 30-35 minutes into the show, not 50 minutes. the flame-out of oscar's boxing show is probably not helping these guys get viewers.


[This message has been edited by Bob the Enzyte Guy (edited 3/11/2005 4:52p).]

That's intresting. A lot of my friends have the exact opposite reaction: they like the first part of the show but hate seeing these guys beat each other up. I mean look at their faces after each fight...yikes! I'm not much a fan of boxing either, but I still like the show.

Whenever I see Sly I think of his ex Bridget from VH1's Strangelove. EW!