By Victor Salazar

New York, NY-The landscape of boxing is always evolving and changing, and those involved in the business have to do the same. For the past few years, Top Rank, Inc. has done business exclusively with one major premium network and that network is HBO. But the relationship hasn’t been all peaches and cream.

Bob Arum, the CEO of Top Rank is one to always speak his mind. Over the past couple of months he has been very critical of the new man running HBO's boxing programming, Peter Nelson. 

Arum revealed that he's spoken to rival network Showtime at Thursday's press conference between Terence Crawford and Hank Lundy, a fight being televised by HBO.

Arum is trying to put together a fight between featherweights Vasyl Lomachenko and Nicholas Walters with a co-main event having WBO 140-pound champion Viktor Postol possibly facing Adrian Granados.

As recent as this week, Arum has been critical of Nelson, so much that he is shopping the card around.

“You see I’m trying to get it on HBO, well that remains to be seen,” Arum told the media. “HBO is not the only fish in the sea. I want to get that fight on and I want to get that fight shown.  I want to move forward with that doubleheader and I’m sure I’ll be able to.”

At the presser Arum told those in attendance that in March it would mark his 50th anniversary being a promoter and it would also mark the 30th anniversary of Hagler-Mugabi which Top Rank promoted and aired on Showtime.

“Things change,” explained Arum. “I did the Hagler-Mugabi fight over 30 years ago and I’ve done plenty of other fights with Showtime. Things change. We’ve had discussions. I think that people at CBS and Showtime want the best possible programming and for that you have to work with different promoters.”

Asked if he was sending a message to Nelson and HBO by possibly shopping his card to Showtime, Arum replied, “I’ve already sent that message, It’s up to them, ask them.”