Boxing get your **** together

[RichardP]

im saving my $ for JMM-DIAZ, gonna watch the fedor fight FREE!

[Iceta Lives]

I think GBP is getting away from matching their guys up tough now all of a sudden. They've always protected certain guys up to an extent. But they really are giving us bull**** match ups like Marquez vs. Diaz for one. And Khan against anybody but a top 140 lber. And Mosley vs. Mora isn't a good fight either even though I view Mora as a potentially tough opponent for Mosley now.

[BoxingTech718]

The boxing organizations should find some way to broadcast small fights on regular network tv on the regular.

[bukakke]

The boxing organizations should find some way to broadcast small fights on regular network tv on the regular.

Small fights won't get any ratings on National TV. FNF's only do half a million viewers, if they did that on national TV they would be canceled immediately. The problem is only top fighters will get the ratings necessary to stay on national TV, but no top fighter wants to fight on national TV because they lose out on the money PPV brings in.

[paulf]

HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg calls the expansion of pay-per-view "the biggest economic issue in boxing" and says:

"I can't tell you that pay-per-view helps the sport because it doesn't. It hurts the sport because it narrows our audience, but it's a fact of life. Every time we try to make an HBO World Championship Boxing fight, we're up against mythical pay-per-view numbers. HBO doesn't make a lot of money from pay-per-view. There's usually a cap on what we can make. But the promoters and fighters insist on pay-per-view because that's where their greatest profits lie."

"It's a big problem," Greenburg continues. "It's getting harder and harder to put fighters like Manny Pacquiao on HBO World Championship Boxing. If Floyd Mayweather beats Oscar, he might never fight on HBO World Championship Boxing again. But if HBO stopped doing pay-per-view, the promoters would simply do it on their own [like Bob Arum did with Cotto-Malignaggi in June 2006] or find someone else who will do it for them."

Former HBO Sports President Seth Abraham concurs, saying, "I think, if Lou (DiBella) and I were still at HBO, we'd be in the same pickle as far as the exodus of fights to pay-per-view is concerned."