Top Rank series on ESPN to feature: Pac/Horn, Loma/Salido 2, Crawford/Indongo

Arum=God. Loma, Pac, Crawford.

Crawford doesn't seem to be happy... Terence Crawford‏Verified account BudCrawford402 Glad everyone seen and notice the difference between how ESPN promoted my fight compared to the other two fights before me

Thomas Hauser suggests Top Rank lost their investor... http://www.thesweetscience.com/feature-articles/44047-eyes-top-rank-espn-lomachenko-crawford It was also understood that Top Rank would have acdess to a third-party venture capital fund that would provide financial assistance for the signing and development of fighters. But the venture capital investor is believed to have pulled out of the deal at the last minute leaving Top Rank in the position of asking ESPN for more money (which might not be forthcoming), finding another investor, or digging deeper into its own pockets to finance it's portion of the venture.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/disney-to-launch-online-only-espn-drops-movie-deal-with-netflix Disney to Launch Online-Only ESPN, Drops Movie Deal With Netflix Walt Disney Co., once again shaking up the media industry, announced it will stop selling movies to Netflix Inc. and begin offering ESPN sports programming and family films directly to consumers over two new streaming services. Starting next year, an ESPN-branded service, which the company had said was in the works, will feature 10,000 live events a year, including Major League Baseball, hockey, soccer and tennis, as well as college sports, Burbank, California-based Disney said Tuesday in a statement. Individual sports packages will also be available.

Steve Khan(get it)‏ steveucnlive 26m26 minutes ago Soooo Arum says Pac-Horn 2 could possibly be on ABC in November. Thing is it's still college FB season at that time... #boxing

ESPN will have replays of Crawford-Lundy and Lomachenko-Martinez on ESPN2 tonight just prior to the Herrera-Soto Karass fight on ESPN. Also looks like there's a bunch of Lomachenko fights On Demand.

Looks like ESPN is going to start airing some "classic" replays.... Tomorrow ESPN2 has DLH-Chavez I, Pacquiao-Margarito and Pryor-Arguello II on its schedule. good find! i'll probably watch at least one of these tonight.

Looks like ESPN is going to start airing some "classic" replays.... Tomorrow ESPN2 has DLH-Chavez I, Pacquiao-Margarito and Pryor-Arguello II on its schedule. Nice! I know ESPN were going to put up classic fights on demand but airing them on ESPN2 tonight is a good look for boxing. They also had broner and Garcia at first take last week. You have 2 cards live this weekend on the main ESPN channel friday and saturday. ESPN is really giving a lot of attention to boxing right now.

Looks like ESPN is going to start airing some "classic" replays.... Tomorrow ESPN2 has DLH-Chavez I, Pacquiao-Margarito and Pryor-Arguello II on its schedule.

steveucnlive I was also told Andy Ruiz could return on Sept 22nd ESPN card that could feature Oscar Valdez and Zurdo Ramirez(vs J.Hart)... #boxing steveucnlive So I asked Abel Sanchez, if Andy Ruiz was even back in the gym. His reply:"Well, he's not back my gym." lulz #boxing

Boxing Leaks‏ boxingLeaks Jul 1 Replying to jeremyFoley BarbosaBox Source close w/Arum. Intellectually lazy of me to characterize it as a time buy. More accurately, ESPN is not paying for the shows. Boxing Leaks‏ boxingLeaks Jul 2 $50m from a hedge fund with end game being Top Rank/ESPN partnered boxing internet channel. Boxing Leaks‏ boxingLeaks Jul 2 No idea (about OTT vs Internet), but I understand ESPN old fights are part of the channel. Boxing Leaks‏ boxingLeaks Jul 2 Replying to simonboxinghead jeremyFoley BarbosaBox Yes to Unimas show. Heard TR moving everything to ESPN & will be one or two ABC fights (same company as ESPN). Haven't heard bout UK shows. Sounds really interesting. This could really be good.

Boxing Leaks‏ boxingLeaks Jul 1 Replying to jeremyFoley BarbosaBox Source close w/Arum. Intellectually lazy of me to characterize it as a time buy. More accurately, ESPN is not paying for the shows. Boxing Leaks‏ boxingLeaks Jul 2 $50m from a hedge fund with end game being Top Rank/ESPN partnered boxing internet channel. Boxing Leaks‏ boxingLeaks Jul 2 No idea (about OTT vs Internet), but I understand ESPN old fights are part of the channel. Boxing Leaks‏ boxingLeaks Jul 2 Replying to simonboxinghead jeremyFoley BarbosaBox Yes to Unimas show. Heard TR moving everything to ESPN & will be one or two ABC fights (same company as ESPN). Haven't heard bout UK shows.

That fight has gift decision for Ramirez written all over it. Seems presumptuous. Regardless, it's an interesting match-up....big step up for Ramirez, but he's been active while Bradley has not.

Gilberto Ramirez-Jesse Hart in September.... Mike (DC) Anything in the works for Gilberto Ramirez? Dan Rafael, The Boxing Guy (1:11 PM) He will fight Jessie Hart in September. http://www.espn.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/52288/boxing-with-dan-rafael

Oscar Valdez's next.....still TBA... Mike (DC) What's next for Oscar Valdez? Dan Rafael, The Boxing Guy (12:58 PM) Probably a late Sept. title defense in Tucson. http://www.espn.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/52288/boxing-with-dan-rafael

Rafael says Tim Bradley-Jose Ramirez could happen.... Fritz (Kalamazoo, MI) Any names mentioned for Tim Bradley's return in the fall? Would LOVE to see him and Spence Jr. Dan Rafael, The Boxing Guy (12:25 PM) Might see him with unbeaten Olympian Jose Ramirez in a very interesting crossroads fight. http://www.espn.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/52288/boxing-with-dan-rafael

Zima Kim steveucnlive Replying to alibomaye7 Im told they will do about one show a month during football seasons and could be like on Friday nights...

Lomachenko-Marriaga 8/5, Crawford-Indongo 8/19 on ESPN, per Dan Rafael... Lomachenko-Marriaga will have Ray Beltran-Bryan Vasquez on the undercard. Crawford-Indongo will have Oleksandr Gvozdyk-TBA on the undercard, as well as Bryant Jennings, Dillian Whyte, Shakur Stevenson, Nicholas Walters. http://www.espn.com.au/boxing/story/_/id/19771115/vasyl-lomachenko-terence-crawford-headline-live-espn-cards-august Lomachenko will defend his 130-pound belt against hard-charging former featherweight world title challenger Miguel Marriaga on Aug. 5 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Two weeks later, on Aug. 19, Crawford will face fellow two-belt world titleholder Julius Indongo at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska, a short drive from Crawford's hometown of Omaha. Both fights, along with undercard action, will be televised live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes and stream live on the ESPN app beginning at 10 p.m. ET. The deal for the upcoming Lomachenko and Crawford fights has been in the works but could not be finalized until the fighters no longer had any obligations to HBO, which had the right to match the ESPN offer. However, HBO allowed its window to match close Thursday without making an offer. However, after much discussion, Salido ultimately rejected an offer of $720,000, and Top Rank moved on to Marriaga for Lomachenko's third title defense. "When the financial requests were met suddenly there were other issues like a hand problem, which led to a weight problem, which led to Marriaga. Funny how that happens," Top Rank vice president Carl Moretti said. "So we moved on to trying to secure the best possible opponent at the time, and Miguel Marriaga stepped up to the plate as did Jason Sosa and Rocky Martinez in the past." The co-feature will pit former two-time lightweight title challenger Raymundo Beltran (33-7-1, 21 KOs), 35, a Mexico native fighting out of Phoenix, and former interim junior lightweight titlist Bryan Vasquez (35-2, 19 KOs), 29, of Costa Rica, in a 10-round lightweight fight. In the Crawford-Indongo co-feature, light heavyweight contender Oleksandr Gvozdyk (13-0, 11 KOs), 30, a 2012 Olympic bronze medalist from Ukraine, will face an opponent to be determined in a 10-rounder. The undercard will also feature several name fighters against opponents to be determined: newly signed Top Rank heavyweight Bryant Jennings (19-2, 10 KOs), 32, of Philadelphia, a former title challenger returning from a 20-month layoff; British heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte, (20-1, 15 KOs), 29, who is coming off a split-decision win against Dereck Chisora in a wild 2016 fight of the year contender in December; 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist Shakur Stevenson (2-0, 1 KO), 20, of Newark, New Jersey; and Walters (26-1, 21 KOs), 31, of Jamaica, fighting for the first time since Lomachenko made him quit in the seventh round of a one-sided junior lightweight world title fight in November.

Variety had an article with some quotes from Burke Magnus of ESPN..... http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/espn-boxing-manny-pacquiao-1202482685/ “We sort of came across this opportunity to really plant a flag back in the sport of boxing in a big way,” said Burke Magnus, ESPN’s executive vice president of programming and scheduling, in an interview. “We hope to do more.” ESPN declined to offer terms of its agreement with Top Rank, the promoter of the bout. Boxing could help ESPN strike a new blow with sports fans. “We have a sense that there’s a deeper reservoir of notable fighters,” said Magnus. “We just feel there’s a little more buzz around boxing than there has been in a number of years, and we think that can carry forward.” ESPN wants to outdo them and focus more intently on the kind of top-shelf match-ups that might be more the stuff of premium cable. For several years, ESPN showed “Friday Night Fights,” but those broadcasts featured “mostly guys that were up and coming and off the radar, trying to establish themselves, but lower on the food chain,” said Magnus. Getting attention in 2017, he added, “means stepping up in term of quality.” ESPN is trying to line up sponsorships tied to the Pacquaio-Horn fight, said Magnus, who could not offer specific details. He suggested the network faced a challenge, because the event was a one-off and not tied to other series or broader array of games. That won’t keep the network from taking a jab at other boxing opportunities. “We are looking at boxing. We are intrigued. One important thing when it comes to boxing is being able to present a high level of fight on a regular basis,” he said. ”If that opportunity presents itself , I think you will see us doing a lot more in the sport.”

Yeah, there really won't be much time to promote the Lomachenko-Salido II fight card, so you wonder how well that fight will sell tickets on such short notice (if it gets made). A laittle reminiscent of some of the problems the PBC had with finalizing fights on short notice...which led to some poor ticket sales and ticket giveaways. Yeah its weird, hopefull next week fight week they talk about the pacquiao horn fight all week on their shows. I think pac horn will do around 1.2 million viewership, there is no promotion so you cant really say pacs name is **** because there is no promotion for the fight and the deal was last minute. At least the fight is popular and hyped in australia