Tally another network for power broker Al Haymon. The influential and mysterious adviser/manager has just added Fox to his ever-growing list of networks for his Premier Boxing Champions series, which now includes: CBS, NBC, NBC Sports Net, ESPN, Spike TV, Bounce TV, Fox Sports 1, and now the main Fox network.
Fox will host at least three PBC cards in 2016, all on Saturday nights from 8-10pm EST. The first show is scheduled to be held on Jan. 23, with the other two shows scheduled for March 12 and July 16. The network sent out notifications to its affiliates this week making the announcement and letting them know how much allotted commercial time would be available for sale during each of the shows.
It doesn't matter if you have em on every channel, for free on sattelite/regular cable. Yeah, let's see these other promoters do what Haymon is doing and give us PPV quality fights on tv/satt. We have a PBC level fight for $60 bucks tomorrow, but people do not complain about that. No. They compain about Dirrell vs DeGale being free, or Broner vs Porter beng on PBC, or how satellite available Thurman-Guerrero/Broner-Molina was such a sh*t card, or Santa Cruz vs Mares being live on ESPN. Na, let's complain about PBC, which btw has only 7 months. In the meantime, let me pay for this $60 dollar mismatch tomorrow, while I post about free fights being whack.
LMAO. No. Not one fight has been PPV worthy.
I think at this point its fair to say that GGG generates more money than Danny Garcia. That's what I meant by being more valuable.
Danny Garcia has already had a million dollar gate at Barclays Center (for Garcia-Malignaggi). Golovkin-Lemieux only "sold out" their show two days ago (there was a poster on here, talking about how they were heading to the fight on a $25 ticket, so I'd hold off on trumpeting that).
Danny Garcia is all of 27 years old, is Puerto Rican, can market his fights in both English and Spanish, is comfortable moving in urban markets, now fights in one of the sport's glamour divisions, and draws female fan interest for his handsomeness (pause).
How is that less valuable than a 33-year old Kazakh fighter, barely conversational in English, who is just now stepping into his first even halfway meaningful fight?
Cotto, Canelo, GGG and Pac (just 4 fighters) are more valuable than Haymon's 200+ fighters combined. If Haymon has any chance at succeeding he's going to need to build and establish a big star and do so quick! The one with the most potential to be that person is Wilder. Maybe this is why Haymon is reluctant to face him against Povetkin.
Deontay Wilder, Danny Garcia, and Errol Spence Jr (simply on potential) trump those four, without much doubt, especially as Wilder gets by Povetkin and Klitschko to unify the heavyweight division.
Pacquiao and Cotto maybe have 3 fights left between the two of them, Canelo not speaking English will not let him crossover to the casual boxing audience, and Golovkin is still running chicken**** from Andre Ward (the only real marketable fight that he'll likely get the opportunity to have).
What's going to hurt Haymon more is not the suit that Arum filed but the suit that GBP filed for violating the Ali Act. Haymon tried to have that case to arbitration and the judge shot it down.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-boxing-pbc-haymon-arum-de-la-hoya-20150917-story.html
Ali Act was written to protect fighters from getting ****ed by promoters (like having a fighter's manager also be on the payroll of the promoter); the Ali Act was not written to protect promoters.
De La Hoya picked up a sizable settlement payment in court, and is now simply trying to pick up another settlement payment (note how the De La Hoya suit only seeks to have the time period after the first settlement considered in their "grievance").
Neither suit is going to go anywhere; once Lemeiux loses and All Star Boxing gets their own payout for Golden Boy poaching 'Canelo', Oscar will have his entire company riding on the hope that Alvarez has defeated Cotto in exciting fashion.
i kinda feel as if he should be narrowing his scope rather than broadening it. merge some of his cards together and drop the timeslots/channels that don't draw. quality over quantity
This is the test phase of the entire effort; you give as many people as possible access to the sampler, before closing down the major deal with whatever party is most interested in the effort.
The 'Friday Night Lights Out' monthly deal on SpikeTV seems to be set as a longterm deal, as is the monthly deal with ESPN; BouneTV will also likely have their own deal. Everything else is likely to go to whomever wants boxing the most.
Showtime/CBS/CBS Sports, NBC/NBCSN, Fox/FS1, and possibly ABC will be in the mix for the final bids (imo, the deal likely ends up with Showtime/CBS picking up the main PBC deal, using boxing to fill out their TV schedules when football season is over, while also continuing to build Showtime into the top player when it comes to premium boxing).
You won't really know what channels/times work unless you actually test them out.
All of those TR cards suck
None of them are even 50/50
TR stable isn't deep though. You'd expect these cards more because they don't have the boxers to have great fights all the time.
Bruh, give them a minute ffs. Did a lil counting & as of tomorrow they will have had 34 cards in 33 weeks. No one is doing what they are doing...ever I think in boxing. I think they are still trying to find there bearings with this whole entity & it seems like they are figuring things out a lil better now than a month or two ago.
Personally I don't see anything wrong with throwing a bunch of pasta on the wall & see what sticks with these TV dates. Might not be optimal, but with a half a billion bankroll I think its probably the best way to get things rolled out quickly & make maximum impact on the competition & fans.
They've been scaling up big too. The first 3 months there were 8 cards. The 2nd 3 months there were 12 cards & this 3rd 3 month period which would go through November will have 21 cards.
And for those who are acting like PBC is f#ckboying boxing fans with their cards here's TR's schedule.
Tonight
Sean Monaghan vs Donovan George
Brad Solomon vs Raymond Serrano
Tomorrow
Jessie Magdaleno vs Vergel Nebran
Trevor McCumby vs Dustin Echard
Oct. 24 - HBO
Terence Crawford vs Dierry Jean
Oct. 31
Felix Verdejo vs Josenilson Dos Santos
Nov. 7 - HBO
Tim Bradley vs Brandon Rios
Vasyl Lomachenko vs Romulo Koasicha
Nov. 20
Gilberto Ramirez Gevorg Khatchikian
Saul Rodriguez vs Ivan Najera
Dec. 5
Jose Ramirez vs TBA
Andy Ruiz vs TBA
All of those TR cards suck
None of them are even 50/50
He's Ruining the sport by giving it exposure
On the real bro, he's giving us too much mediocre boxing. There's some ppl who don't care and just wanna see boxing. Those ppl are in heaven. Not me though. There was boxing all this week and I didn't bother watching any of it. He's giving us tons of boxing but I don't care for most of it.
Downloadable schedule to phone. Includes dates, times, channel and records. Reminds you when they coming on then decide if you wanna watch. Plenty of boxing to go around and like all sports cant watch them all
Nice suggestion. But my point was that they should have an entity like a Monday night Football, Sunday night football of that sort you know. To scatter events all around would not, and it has not gained the notoriety that it should have.
I expected just that from you. Morocco LOL. Also what kind of sentence is that? It makes no sense whatsoever. What do you even mean?
It was Monaco but freddi roach calls it Morocco you know what I mean
Yea because it was in Morocco than loeffer started whining and crying so hbo had his last Morocco fight (murray) on hbo
I expected just that from you. Morocco LOL. Also what kind of sentence is that? It makes no sense whatsoever. What do you even mean?
Just fun thats all.
His career is 90% "cans" but wanna say that PBC is only that
The funny things is that those "cans" that GGG has faced, are arguably top level opposition compared to the fighters guys like Quillin face, a murderer's row even. GGG hasn't faced a truly great fighter, that's true, but for the most part his resume in recent years consists of good opponents, it's just that he demolishes every single of of them. Hell wasn't Anthony Dirrel struggling with a fat Rubio?
I remember hbo didn't do that fight some reason.
Yea because it was in Morocco than loeffer started whining and crying so hbo had his last Morocco fight (murray) on hbo
The Ishida fight wasn't on HBO. Looking it up looks like it was on PPV.
http://static.boxrec.com/thumb/d/d1/Golovkin-vs-ishida-3_30_13.jpg/250px-Golovkin-vs-ishida-3_30_13.jpg
I remember hbo didn't do that fight some reason.
PBC is clearly not going anywhere anytime soon which must sucks for the people who spend most of their day bashing and talking about how bad it is and how "Haymon Is Running Out Of Money" :lol1:
Haymon is the future and face of boxing. Cats on this board have no valid sentiments other than admiration, and gratitude towards Haymon the Great.
yes if they just try to figth easy figths oer and over they won't show them. ward style. sometimes they get easy fights this is true. pbc is easy fights over and over and over
Terence crawford and giggi have taken alot of easy fights over and over. No?
anyone gonna enjoy spending the night watching edwin rodriguez vs michael seals? i'm sure the people of mississippi are. why wouldn't you have a fight between 2 unknows in mississippi. it makes perfect business sense.
Come on man your about to pay for a fight card where every fighter is atleast -1000