I'm surprised so many are against this. Yeah, its King running it, but it is still a lot more exposure. And think about it, even if it is just weekly Friday Night Fights type shows, we'll never get pre-empted for fucking log rolling or cycling or whatever bullshit ESPN2 likes to do now.
And who knows? King could possibly bring forth a couple decent sponsers. Though I'm not super wild on the idea of King running the network, it could be a lot worse. As far as worrying that all his cards would be on PPV...I doubt it. He'd have less reason to need PPV. There's this misconception that promoters like charging fans at home $50 a pop to see the big fights. That's actually not the case. Promoters basically have to do that because they can't get good enough sponsorship. The amount the promoters gets from PPV buys is nowhere near what they could make from sponsors.
And really what are HBO and Showtime besides just really extended PPV channels anyhow? We have to pay extra every month to get them. Imagine this, King gets his network going and it grows. They start having fights like they have on HBO for "free" on that channel. Then say they keep doing the $50 PPVs for big fights. We'd still save in the end. Premium channel packages cost upwards of $12 extra a month on satellite dish, even higher for cable. That'd be a savings of $144 and up, which is almost 3 whole PPVs. Yeah, not a huge savings, but significant enough I think.
And, since the HBO level fights would now be on a Boxing channel, which isn't a premium channel, this increases potential viewers. So then, that increases the audience, which could lead to a higher rate of people willing to buy the PPV. If you've got a bigger audience, you can afford to lower that PPV price.
And hey, even worst case, if King's channel is just an avenue for King to promote his fighters and display them, is it really that bad? At least it'd be competition for HBO and Showtime. Competition makes everybody have to work harder.
Check out the WWF. 5 years ago, wrestling was easily the highest rated cable show, by far. Vince McMahon bought out his competition and then what happened? No competition meant the WWF didn't have to try hard. That meant a weaker product. Competition is what fueled the WWF.
That's an element boxing needs, networks competing to want to host the bigger fights.
Though, this still isn't "the answer" to the problems in boxing, it certainly isn't that bad of an idea.
Great Post :boxing:
LOL!!! Go get drunk with Larry Merchant.. Other guys here have up pictures of beatiful woman, world-class fighters, or other cool things in their avatars.. You have up a picture of a drunk wanna be pugilist/professor!! That tells me enough about your judgement. You're the one who should be banned, this world already has enough stupid people!!
Whats wrong? Is my Larry Merchant av making u insecure with your manhood faggot...I can tell by your posts that u get no kind of pussy cuz u sound like a fuckin teenage virgin....btw Italian pussy is good as fuck.
Vargas almost got knocked the fuck out with literally the first punch Tito landed in that fight. All u bitches makin excuses cuz it upsets u that Tito has accomplished so much. Get off his nuts and go watch the Hopkins vs Tito fight....It'll make u bunch of females feel better.
LOL!! If you only knew!! Have fun with your Larry Merchant blowup doll.. On the next HBO telecast when Larry has a big smile on his face I'll know why now. You'll be on your knees under the table where he is sitting.. Later Larry Merchant's little bitch!!
If I only knew what???? That u masterbate to Larry Merchants retarded comments during fights. U tellin me that Larry Merchant has blow up dolls of himself???? Ha funny that u know that u fuckin high heel wearin ass bitch....Do us all a favor and go get laid cuz Im pretty sure when u lose your virginity that youll stop acting like u have a pussy. Fuckin nerd
Tito has better footwork now
That and his power is a tito haters nightmare
Goodluck to Winky..... and to all u dudes betting money, please dont do it for this fight...
In all seriousness Titos gonna embarass Winky
You dont think Tito has a game plan for an opponent that thinks using what hopkins did will win the fight
Winky is a very sharp fighter and IMO one of the best and deserves all the props that delahoya gets cuz hes better but he will not be able to take trinidads new style and usual power.
I say Tito wins this fight in 10 rounds by stoppage.
Peace
is that better..Professor Merchant...Is Larry Merchant his real name or stage name?
Still a mistake in there....LMAO
Im just fuckin wit ya but if u give a shit there still is a minor mistake in there
and as for merchant...I really dont know shit about merchant except that hes an old dumbass....so yeah I wouldnt be surprised if it was his stage name.
Rocky Marciano baby.. Retired only undefeated heavyweight of all time.. I suppose Hector Macho Camacho and Tito Trinidad are better P4P.. Loak I hope you croak
Rocky Marciano
STFU wit your old ass boxers....truth is Italians only have a few....some of the best fighters come out of PR and Mexico
awww u hope I croak?
Reminds me of when I stuffed my cock down your moms throat and made her choke
silly bitch.
You realize you are stealing from boxingscene by not seeding fights? You leech. Go seed some.
Way to divert attention away from u deleting your post and hiding like a bitch
Ive seeded 2.10 gb faggot
try something else
He was downloaded the dances for the salsas!!!!!! he loved to edancen them because he is a dancer!!!!!! a pretty dancer!!!!!
Thats ironic
I was just talking to someone yesterday about free salsa lessons
soon I will be edancen the salsa!!!!
That's very educated of you.. I'm still waiting for you to list some contributions of your people to this world. Keep living in denial. Your country is weak, it's fighters are weaker, and you'll never amount to anything except joining an organization on a message board. If you weren't so sad you'd be funny..
Our fighters are weaker????? LMAO
that just proved what a dumb fuck u are
yeah I know. You know what is funny....I made a thread that included an arcticle I liked titled "God Help Trinidad Says Winky"...it recieved some good arguments about both fighters. Then he came in...pissed off and accused me of "Tito Hating" for not picking Trinidad to win.
According to the Boricua organization, if you do not have Trinidad's balls lodged in your diaphragm...you are a Hater. LOL.
Quit trying to seem like youre not a tito nuthugger...Ive seen u try and shit on Tito plenty of times. Us tito fans at least know how to give his opponents credit and props. U guys just straight up hate on Tito.
Get off his jock.
You gonna take the bet or what. And quit leeching the downloads you bum.
Youre an idiot...I tried not to diss u but u had to do it.
Im taking serious bets against anyone that has the balls for a av or sig bet....obviously u have doubts if u think u might have to change your av and sig.
and WTF u talking about leeching
Ive seeded 2.11 gb so far
How come I dont see your seed stats
Have any?
Donate 03-21-2005 10:07 AM 0% 100000.00 102000.00 LOAk
Remember this donation troll?
its ok. I plan on having your karma destroyed anyway. So desperate to make friends you are......and I laugh at you claiming to be Puerto Rican.
Your mothers the only troll bitch
Unfortunately for your dumb ass I could care less about some nerdy Karma. I dont spend my whole day on a website like u bitch. LMAO U really think I give a shit? Check out the Larry Merchant avatar for proof that LOAK doesnt give a shit about nerds. U wanna act tough with your nerd talk. Ok I think I'll make it a habit to spread around rep and negative prop u every time I log on just for kicks.
Like I said, I'm just making a small symbolic bet for kicks...
Why would I risk betting my avitar? I kind of like it.. think it's a keeper. I kind of like larry as well, so why would I change it to something GAY?
Sorry bro, I've matured over avatar bets.
my bad
I missed the for kicks part
I thought u wanted a serious bet
U lost me on the liking larry part
tito will barley hit wright he will get fustrated over wrights defence and tito will lose......i hope he dies in the ring.
Winky will lose cuz u touch yourself at night
Yeah, but are they REALLY hating on Tito, or are they just fucking with you guys just to get a rise out of you which BTW really seems to be effective it that's the case? That's my point and trust me, it makes perfect sense.
NOPE most are really hating on Tito
and u know it.
Point proven
Sorry, I don't bet what I don't have and I don't really have very big interest in this fight. Trying to save up for HW division clean up.
So like I said, just "Symbolic"
How about an avatar bet bro
Haters seem like less nuthuggers? Isn't that contradictory? And no, they likely don't really hate Tito. They probably would like to see Tito lose because of pop-offs like you, either that or they just plainly want Winky to win or whoever else Tito fights. You take shit way too personal. Are you Tito's lover or somethin or his mother? Doubt it, so maybe you need to STFU.
No its not contradictory. Cuz the more u hate on a fighter and the more u post in his threads the more of a dick riding faggot you are....Like u and runs/Wplasticknives for example....
Basically to seem like less of a dick rider u come up wit a sad excuse... stating that oooh its not really hate...we're just pretending like little girls ....Im not talking about those that are genuinely rooting for Winky and those that say that they think hes gonna beat tito ....Im talking about all the the skirt wearing nuthuggers that cant get enough of titos balls....those that cant wait to see him lose so that they can feel alittle tingle in their vaginas.....U bitches need your own little gay forum to discuss how much u love tito.