Here's the HBO-branded fight poster for next weekend's World Championship Boxing double-header featuring WBC middleweight titlist Julio Cesar Chavez Jr facing Marco Antonio Rubio, and Nonito Donaire and Wilfredo Vazquez Jr battling for the vacant WBO super bantamweight belt.
I rarely prefer the HBO posters to the promoter posters, when promoters release one, but the Top Rank poster for the show is so ungodly busy and color vomit-y that I have to give the nod to HBO here -- for a modern fight poster (which is mostly just an online image, although I guess bars still get posters if they carry fights, not that I'm somewhere where I'd encounter this in my real life), this is pretty straightforward and simple. It would only be better if Vazquez had red gloves on like everyone else, matching the poster's color scheme better.
This show will be the focus of our fight coverage for the coming week, as it's the first HBO show of 2012, the first fight on the network since December 10, and is the first major card on U.S. TV this year.
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Posters with fighters who seem to be looking at the clock are a nice change.
DrRck - January 28, 2012
Even on the fight poster, Vazquez Jr. is throwing a wide hook that Donaire is about to counter.
Verklemptomaniac - January 28, 2012
I still think that fight posters are intended to cover the grim, dark, smoke-stained and graffiti-marred walls of the sordid dives that we all tend to frequent (except for you, Scott).
DrRck - January 28, 2012
I frequent those joints. They just don’t care that boxing exists.
Scott Christ - January 28, 2012
I must have misunderstood.
Anyway, you might like my ancient New England Victorian. It’s like a bar: 4,000 square feet, dark wood, smoke-filled, alcohol-saturated, no posters, but lots of boxing when I can get it.
I’m just lucky, I guess, that I prefer to drink alone.
DrRck - January 28, 2012
Rubio doesn’t even look ready to be hit. Are they trying to tell us something?
El Destruyo - January 28, 2012
Cheesy as hell.
“Hard hitting action all night long!!!”
lol
Shitali Klitschko - January 29, 2012 via mobile
ALL NIGHT LONG
AS LONG AS “ALL NIGHT LONG” IS, LIKE, 10 PM TO MIDNIGHT
Scott Christ - January 29, 2012
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