>Do you think the producers of this show would tell everyone
>that the fights are predetermined unless they have to????
>They have probably been predetermined before and we just haven't
>been told.

Actually, we've known right along that the fights were predetermined by the teams. We've seen it from Week 2. In Week 4, there was a clip of Miguel rebelling and talking about wanting to fight Jeff Fraza. In confessional, Ishe says, "Boxing has been known to be about easy fights, mismatches, paper champions, and I didn't want this show to be that. You know, it's called The Contender, not The Pretender." Alfonso agrees, "I think the fairest thing to do is to have the most disadvantaged person in our group, which is Joey just from experience, fight the most disadvantaged person there, which is Fraza." In confessional, Alfonso says, "I feel like I owe it to Joey to let him fight Fraza, because I took that opportunity away from him on the first fight. Maybe he could've been already in the second round, y'know." Ishe says that it's 6 against 2 (Sergio and Miguel) in favor of preventing Miguel from fighting Jeff. Miguel launches into an expletive-laden statement saying that the team had no right to stop him from fighting Jeff if he wanted, and Ishe told him that, if he and Sergio didn't want to follow the plan, then they could contest the challenge on their own.

P.S. This is the only week when the East won the challenge, and Najai called out Sergio.

>As for this show being about teams - heck no. This show has nothing to
>do with teams.

No. But it does have a lot to do with living up to your word. Everyone on both teams now knows that Anthony does NOT live up to his word.

Apparently there are lots of people out here who think that people who are not as good as their words are somehow better than people who are, because that's the only explanation for this "Anthony-mania." Well, for all of you who enjoy lying and backstabing, get your fill of Anthony now, because in three weeks, he'll be gone. None of the boxers will miss him, either.