hbo what went wrong?

**jrosales13** · 11-11-2009, 12:05 AM

Originally posted by hello2007

hbo was the best back in 2000-2004 since then they dont show as much fights and most fights are 1 sided. hbo showed only 3 cards since august the paulie fight, the vitali fight and the dawson fight. only the diaz paulie fight was entertaining. hbo has really started to suck even the intro's to the event are crap compared to back 4-5 years ago. Whats wrong with hbo i never thought i would prefer showtime over hbo

Ross Greenburg took over that is what went wrong...

**Guest** · 11-11-2009, 12:06 AM

Originally posted by jrosales13

Ross Greenburg took over that is what went wrong...

And the accompanying budget cuts.

**Silencers** · 11-11-2009, 12:09 AM

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**KennyWeldon** · 11-11-2009, 12:09 AM

Originally posted by hello2007

hbo was the best back in 2000-2004 since then they dont show as much fights and most fights are 1 sided. hbo showed only 3 cards since august the paulie fight, the vitali fight and the dawson fight. only the diaz paulie fight was entertaining. hbo has really started to suck even the intro's to the event are crap compared to back 4-5 years ago. Whats wrong with hbo i never thought i would prefer showtime over hbo

you mean the Juan Diaz fight?

**Johnny Rebel** · 11-11-2009, 12:15 AM

It's a shame, boxing is the only reason that I pay for HBO and Showtime...

**jrosales13** · 11-11-2009, 12:17 AM

Originally posted by jreckoning

And the accompanying budget cuts.

Well the 15million dollar budget for next year is taking place. Cuz Greenburg is overpaying for Al Haymon and Golden Boy fighters to be on his network. And, he is not getting the ratings in return.

**Bushbaby** · 11-11-2009, 12:19 AM

Showtime has fights on both friday & saturday & don't have to deal with goldenboy & there crooked ways!!

**Pullcounter** · 11-11-2009, 12:20 AM

hbo is wasting money on mismatches

**hello2007** · 11-11-2009, 12:26 AM

ahhh now i understand. Its no surprise really look at all the money they threw at roy jones jr back in the early 2000s he was being paid 10 million per year just to fight only on hbo plus all the other money he got from fights. Hbo is horrible at managing money for boxing they just throw it all away on nothing.

espn last year also cut friday night fights to 6 months i think. This is horrible. At least showtime is picking up the slack

hbo what went wrong?