Comments on: Giant News: Tim Sylvia will Fight Ray Mercer

By: Bryan Levick

Bryan Levick — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:17:01 +0000

Good point Curtis, it’s called not biting the hand that feeds you.

By: curtis

curtis — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:19:45 +0000

If you were T.O. would you fire Drew Rosenhouse? Even though his career is becoming a laughing stock?

By: Bryan Levick

Bryan Levick — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:38:09 +0000

He is not going to fire Monte Cox who is the premier agent in MMA right now. Regardless of how awful this fight looks right now, Sylvia will survive and either fight in Affliction or go to Japan where they would embrace him for thr freak show he is. No matter what he will still find some decent paydays ahead. Why would he fire a guy who got him $800k for a half minute’s work?

By: Ryan Bartlett

Ryan Bartlett — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:22:47 +0000

Unless he wants to embrace the farce that his career has became…..yes.

By: curtis

curtis — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:27:55 +0000

Would you fire someone that got you the payday from fighting Fedor?

By: VEe

VEe — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:24:56 +0000

I understand Tim in trying to make money and continue fighting but after the HUGE pay-day for the 36-seconds of work, not forgetting the promotional responsibilities and training . . . you would think that $800,000 was a good look.

First I heard Sylvia vs Shamrock and now this? Was he banned from Affliction or something? (Pun intended)

Don’t know if this is even legal but AfflictionMMA.com has posted ALL of Fedor’s fights. http://affliction-mma.com/?p=421

By: Ryan Bartlett

Ryan Bartlett — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:20:19 +0000

My feelings on this are that Tim needs to fire Monte Cox and get someone else to manage what’s left of his career.

By: curtis

curtis — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:35:44 +0000

I thought this story was a joke when it broke. Obviously Mercer will be favored. Timmy is no Lennox Lewis. Tim was on the date TV show, Lennox was on The Apprentice..lol

This could be a huge laughing stock if Tim can not hold his own.

By: VEe

VEe — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:18:21 +0000

If Mercer was really dedicated he could have been great.
He looked horrible against Lennox Lewis and still came out on top even though he lost via split decision. He was more or less long forgotten when he stepped in the ring against Lewis.

But if he’s still fighting at 47 . . . guess Mercer didn’t manage his money well OR he really, really, really loves to compete.

Sylvia? Boxing?? Sylvia stays in the pocket with little to no head movement waiting to knocked off. Then again the same can be said for Big Nogueira lately.

By: ironman

ironman — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:03:59 +0000

Thanks for that, Billy Bob. Sorry I missed that.

You’re right, then. Tim is SOL.