Dan Rafael has said CBS, Showtime and Haymon were OK with Floyd fighting on CBS

KOer10y ago

However Floyd would make less money than his guarantee so he went with PPV. This is from Rafael's Friday chat: Eric oakland Do you have any inside knowledge of why the cbs idea didn't happen for he floyd fight? Seems like berto might have been an acceptable opponent if the fight had been free on prime time and would have been a big event Dan Rafael, King Fight Freak (12:47 PM) I've been told CBS and Showtime were ready to do it and so was Haymon. But to make it viable Floyd was going to have to take less money than his guarantee and balked. I do not know if that is certain but it sounds right to me and seems like one of the reasons the fight took so long to announce. You dont announce a major PPV fight 38 days out. But it was delayed and that may have been one of the reasons as they went back and forth. The link to the chat: http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/51918/boxing-with-dan-rafael

Comments (20)

MrRolltide91

The play could have had to do with the reported contract extension. Look floyd, you take less now, we get you for fight 50 against a name and you make all the money all over again and we get a cut. free tv would be the ticket for casuals to get interested in his next money fight. and floyd could have said well i really want to retire or i don't know, so i will take the money guaranteed to be safe. and we may or may not work it out later. I think he wants to become a free agent

10y ago

CaneloKhan

I dont blame mayweather, gimmie me guarantee too fuck em.

10y ago

FeFist

Yeah, how dare Floyd expect Showtime to honour their contract with him.

10y ago

mathed

Floyd is a lil biatch

10y ago

AntonTheMeh

Well, no one's ever busted Berto quick. He has 1 KO loss and that was because he was injured, and it was a late TKO. Mayweather isn't going to bust anything but his hands. i don't need an education on berto. would saying floyd is going to make easy work of berto been easier for you to understand?

10y ago

QballLobo

Dan works for ESPN, he has no need to protect anybody as ESPN will always get a seat at the table. Espinoza wants to protect his interests and Showtime sports. i would believe fat Dan over Espinoza any day. Personally, I think the fight was proposed for CBS but they couldn't find the sponsors to cover Mayweathers guarantee and make it worth it for the the network so they decided to at least try and break even with PPV money. After the Pac fight they are playing with house money any way and if the think the can make a 50th Jr. fight against Pac next year they will recoup their losses from this one if there is any.

10y ago

Barcham

Well Espinzoa said that CBS was barely even explored because there simply wasn't enough time. They needed 8 months range and only had 8 weeks. So looks like Fat Dan is talking nonsense, again. Pretty sure he makes a lot of his stories from "sources" up I never trust any story that includes unnamed sources. Most of the time those articles turn out to be pure BS.

10y ago

Scipio2009

Definitely a no brainer. $30M/gtd + potential for more beats the **** outta even maybe up to $25M & I doubt the upside was that high. I'd assume it took a minute cuz it is a great idea & a great way to leave the sport & they were probably exploring revenue from advertisers or others. But hell man even in Mayweather vs Pacquiao, Floyd had to walk into the ring with the Burger King & Freddie & Manny had to take a selfie during there ring walk just for a combined $2M+ from my understanding. Mayweather on free tv gonna have to drive a Prius up a widened ring walk area, eat some McNuggets, take a sip of cognac & hold a billboard for Superman vs Batman all while dressed up as an insurance gecko & maybe get $15M/gtd if they are lucky. Floyd doesn't drink; turn that to a sip of Coca-Cola and that polar bear in the passenger seat and you'd be onto something.

10y ago

FrankieBruno

No he cares for the homeless. That's why he gives frozen turkeys to people who have no home or oven to cook them in. :lol1::lol1:

10y ago

IronDanHamza

10y ago

Kev

Berto is the guy you fight if it's going to be a free fight. you bust his ass quick, and your next ppv has everyone drooling. I'd be shocked if this ppv did well. Well, no one's ever busted Berto quick. He has 1 KO loss and that was because he was injured, and it was a late TKO. Mayweather isn't going to bust anything but his hands.

10y ago

AntonTheMeh

Berto is the guy you fight if it's going to be a free fight. you bust his ass quick, and your next ppv has everyone drooling. I'd be shocked if this ppv did well.

10y ago

Bigg_Rigg

Can't fault him here, why would he take take less money? im surprised he lulled this over for so long, it's a no brainer. I wouldn't do my job for even 3/4 less money, it's absurd to think he would. He pulled off the heist of the century with that Pac fight. He made $300 according to him. I think he should have put it on cbs. He can afford to not make another $100 pay day or whatever he will get. He's fighting Andre Berto ffs.

10y ago

King_Man

With all his resources this guy never seems to know anything. Never believe him I think this fight was a willful spit in the face of the fans by Mayweather That being said, you're right Rafael says a lot of things and many times don't pan out or are based on almost nothing

10y ago

G_G_G

I'd rather pay for it. I can't stand the cheaper public network presentation and commercials. I'm more than fine with paying for a quality PPV production. Plus, Salido vs. Rocky should be very good.

10y ago

TheStranger

I'm not a Floyd fan either but still sounds like Showtimes fault for letting him own them at some point in the negotiations.

10y ago

Barcham

I'm not a Floyd fan as I'm sure most around here are quite aware of, but there is no reason at all that Floyd should have taken less money than what his contract guaranteed him. Haymon could well have afforded to pay whatever the difference between what CBS were ready to put up and what the contract called for. A contract is a contract. You sign it, you honor the damn thing right to the end.

10y ago

Jake_ChillenYal

For the fans. :lol1: Floyd don't even care about the nut huggers that defend him to hell and back on here. floyds fans dont defend him because they think they will be personally thanked or rewarded financially....they defend him from the droves of idiots who constantly put him down and never give him credit for anything...the type of idiots that hold him to a higher standard than any other fighter and spare me "well i hold him to a high standard because he calls himself the best ever"....he can call himself whatever hed like to...you dont have to believe it....if you believe and state it here then you can hold him to ridiculous standards that you dont hold fighters you like to people are defending from jealous morons ...not because they think floyd cares about them

10y ago

Kev

It's not even being greedy lol. He doesn't pretend to "fight for da people" there's no logical reason to make less money on purpose I think DLH and everyone knew that DLH vs Forbes was gonna do something like 200-250k at the very least. Instead he said fck it, and just had it on televised HBO. It's not taking less money on purpose, it's more like saying, 'Hey, i've made 100s of millions of dollars because of boxing fans who hate or love me. Let me give them a free fight against a low level opponent." That's all, that's why I had nothing against this fight when it was announced as a free televised fight, cause I thought it was fair. But now, come on, this is far from fair to his fans. Floyd is not gonna get into some financial crisis over one non-PPV fight.

10y ago

Kev

Floyd has a guarantee of 32 mil regardless of how this does. So, for him it doesn't matter if no one buys it. Showtime is getting hammered on it though. Well damn, if that is the case, CBS has money to burn. Literally.

10y ago