HBO snubs Top Rank- Shift to Showtime PPV?

[Bushbaby]

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

I wasn't talking #'s,so U can't win.I'm talking Clottey,Margarito & now Mosley on ppv.I've seen better,much better matchups on network hbo.Again,I am not talking numbers,I'm talking quality.

For example,a corvette zr1 can damn out perform a Lamborgini Giarldo & cost about 200000 less.That's the same as Marquez Katsidis on network hbo vs Pacman-Margarito on ppv,ther is nothing to argue about,carry on.Don't bring up #'s here because I wasn't talking #'s.

[mikemurni]

Cotto-Mortisyan is not a bad fight.. I dont know why HBO rejected it..
As far as PPV attraction Cotto >>> Martinez, and Martirosyan >> Dzinziruk who is a virtual unknown..

[Georgeshills]

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.

Arum has been known to play around with media, saying this, but doing the opposite. If HBO shows him the money, I doubt it if Arum will say no.

[IMDAZED]

Cotto-Mortisyan is not a bad fight.. I dont know why HBO rejected it..
As far as PPV attraction Cotto >>> Martinez, and Martirosyan >> Dzinziruk who is a virtual unknown..

Martinez-Dzinziruk is the best matchup that can be made out of all of these options. Why is anyone whining?

[Walt Liquor]

bob puts on his own ppv's all the time.

this articles offers zero insight, anyone reading the sports page could have written it.


bottom line, they didn't want the ppv. big whoop. they could have put both fights together and that's be a hell of a ppv and could have probably sold PLENTY tix in vegas or especially new york. dzinziruk-martinez is the best fight, but cotto-mayoriga would be fun as hell. start it off with a lee-duddy appetizer and you have an EXCELLENT card. I'd buy it, and I likely won't buy the cotto mayorga fight unless I have a really good month that month.

oh yeah, but promoters can't work together for the good of the sport. I forgot about that.

[Las Vegas,]

Am I the only one who thinks that this is actually good for boxing?