HBO snubs Top Rank- Shift to Showtime PPV?

Am I the only one who thinks that this is actually good for boxing?

bob puts on his own ppv's all the time. this articles offers zero insight, anyone reading the sports page could have written it. bottom line, they didn't want the ppv. big whoop. they could have put both fights together and that's be a hell of a ppv and could have probably sold PLENTY tix in vegas or especially new york. dzinziruk-martinez is the best fight, but cotto-mayoriga would be fun as hell. start it off with a lee-duddy appetizer and you have an EXCELLENT card. I'd buy it, and I likely won't buy the cotto mayorga fight unless I have a really good month that month. oh yeah, but promoters can't work together for the good of the sport. I forgot about that.

Cotto-Mortisyan is not a bad fight.. I dont know why HBO rejected it.. As far as PPV attraction Cotto >>> Martinez, and Martirosyan >> Dzinziruk who is a virtual unknown.. Martinez-Dzinziruk is the best matchup that can be made out of all of these options. Why is anyone whining?

Yeah...he says that every time he doesn't get what he wants. But still, this article may be something that comes to mind initially but not when you dig a little deeper. For starters, there isn't one quote from HBO. Arum has been known to play around with media, saying this, but doing the opposite. If HBO shows him the money, I doubt it if Arum will say no.

Cotto-Mortisyan is not a bad fight.. I dont know why HBO rejected it.. As far as PPV attraction Cotto >>> Martinez, and Martirosyan >> Dzinziruk who is a virtual unknown..

2M PPV buys (120M) a year is bullsh!t??? I wasn't talking #'s,so U can't win.I'm talking Clottey,Margarito & now Mosley on ppv.I've seen better,much better matchups on network hbo.Again,I am not talking numbers,I'm talking quality. For example,a corvette zr1 can damn out perform a Lamborgini Giarldo & cost about 200000 less.That's the same as Marquez Katsidis on network hbo vs Pacman-Margarito on ppv,ther is nothing to argue about,carry on.Don't bring up #'s here because I wasn't talking #'s.:stooges:

It may be partly based on what Arum said to Dan Rafael, which is stated in page 2 of the article. This.. ...That is going to affect all of our relationships in the coming years and I emphasize all of our relationships." Yeah...he says that every time he doesn't get what he wants. But still, this article may be something that comes to mind initially but not when you dig a little deeper. For starters, there isn't one quote from HBO.

I guess,HBO needs to take their name off of all of Pacman bull$hit ppv's too. 2M PPV buys (120M) a year is bullsh!t???

I guess,HBO needs to take their name off of all of Pacman bull$hit ppv's too.

Is this writer forreal? This is very surface level reasoning. It may be partly based on what Arum said to Dan Rafael, which is stated in page 2 of the article. This.. ...That is going to affect all of our relationships in the coming years and I emphasize all of our relationships."

HBO made their bed with Oscar last year and found out the hard way that GBP doesn't have the stable of boxers to sustain their boxing shows, now they're trying to piss Bob Arum by playing hardball with him? Freakin' geniuses...

Is this writer forreal? This is very surface level reasoning.

Its a big blow if they lose Cotto and Pac to showtime.. That's 4 fights in a year that could have boosted their yearly total PPV sales.. Probably a loss of 2.5 to 3M PPV sales which is equivalent to 100M - 150M lost revenue...And they are left with only Floyd, who will most likely fight once this year..