HBO snubs Top Rank- Shift to Showtime PPV?

[Georgeshills]

Its a long article. Just click the link. This should increase the hype in boxing PPV,

Aside from Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, no other active fighter has been as much of a cash cow for HBO as Miguel Cotto. For seven years, Cotto has been a staple on HBO, delivering the network some of its biggest recent numbers and turning in several of its most memorable performances. The fact that Cotto's next fight , March 12th against Ricardo Mayorga, will be on Showtime PPV, only serves as a testament to the network's mismanagement of its boxing division.....

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6231508/hbo_snubs_top_rank_in_cotto_deal_arum.html?cat=14

[武士道]

Greenburg et al. have been making some odd decisions lately.

[mikemurni]

Its a big blow if they lose Cotto and Pac to showtime.. That's 4 fights in a year that could have boosted their yearly total PPV sales.. Probably a loss of 2.5 to 3M PPV sales which is equivalent to 100M - 150M lost revenue...And they are left with only Floyd, who will most likely fight once this year..

[IMDAZED]

Is this writer forreal? This is very surface level reasoning.

[gopi11]

HBO made their bed with Oscar last year and found out the hard way that GBP doesn't have the stable of boxers to sustain their boxing shows, now they're trying to piss Bob Arum by playing hardball with him? Freakin' geniuses...

[Georgeshills]

Is this writer forreal? This is very surface level reasoning.

It may be partly based on what Arum said to Dan Rafael, which is stated in page 2 of the article.

This..
...That is going to affect all of our relationships in the coming years and I emphasize all of our relationships."

[Bushbaby]

I guess,HBO needs to take their name off of all of Pacman bull**** ppv's too.

[King Ju-Ju]

hbo is ****ed up doing that **** 2 cotto. i know the mayorga fight isnt really good fight and they dont wanna buy it but cotto has foguth a lot of good boxers thru the years. and if its like this i wanna see what fights hbo does buy this year.

[mikemurni]

I guess,HBO needs to take their name off of all of Pacman bull**** ppv's too.

2M PPV buys (120M) a year is bull****???

[IMDAZED]

It may be partly based on what Arum said to Dan Rafael, which is stated in page 2 of the article.

This..
...That is going to affect all of our relationships in the coming years and I emphasize all of our relationships."

Yeah...he says that every time he doesn't get what he wants. But still, this article may be something that comes to mind initially but not when you dig a little deeper. For starters, there isn't one quote from HBO.