Comments Thread For: Koncz: Pacquiao vs. Mosley PPV is Going To Showtime!

[Sweet Jesus]

fight camp 360??

Fight Camp > 24/7

[hitking]

to be honest, i just dont think hbo was ever interested in a pac/mosley fight after mosleys last two mediocre fights....hence team pac/arum headed to showtime. besides, it would be interesting to see how showtime will produce their version of 24/7 heading into the fight...change is good. even if its just for one fight.

i have a feeling that pacs next fight after mosley (providing that pac beats mosley), that pacs next opponant will be against someone that hbo will want to showcase.

Whether they were interested in Mosley or not, it will never make business sense not to carry and a Pacquaio or Mayweather event. You're promised a million buys at $60 a clip. With all the ****ty fights HBO has carried, no way they made a moral play on this one.

[| THE KING |]

Kockz is a ****boy.. but if true, this is good for the sport. Maybe showtime will put out more fights and get it to the mainstream (cbs). HBO may also have to pick it up with better fights as well. Can be a good thing for boxing.

[Team Vitaminas]

Lmao,demoted!!!!!

[Dilly5]

This is a good thing in my opinion. CBS reaches way more households then HBO and can draw in a lot more people who otherwise wouldn't be interested. We do lose the production value of HBO 24/7 but when it comes down to it, it's about the fights not the promo build up. How many times has a 24/7 been great but the fight itself was lacking?

Also it's a good thing HBO will now have some competition. Arum is taking a stable of good fighters over to Showtime, Pacquiao, Cotto, Juan Manuel Lopez etc and screwed with Golden Boy promotions and HBO at the same time. We know those two companies have been playing favorites with each other for a while now.

Good for Showtime, they have been showing quality boxing on the network for a long time even though they don't have the star power of HBO. I like Showtime cause they put on competitve fights and rarely ever do PPV. Been at least a couple of years since they've done a PPV event. Kind of reminds me of when Showtime scooped up Mike Tyson from HBO, who like Pacquiao was the biggest name in Boxing at the time.

[jbpanama]

Maybe Don King whispered in Arum's Ear.....
CBS + PacMan= 2 MILLION PPV Buys!!!

CBS can see Pac's STAR POWER,
and wants to get in on the ACT!!!

[prsi]

This is a good thing in my opinion. CBS reaches way more households then HBO and can draw in a lot more people who otherwise wouldn't be interested. We do lose the production value of HBO 24/7 but when it comes down to it, it's about the fights not the promo build up. How many times has a 24/7 been great but the fight itself was lacking?

Also it's a good thing HBO will now have some competition. Arum is taking a stable of good fighters over to Showtime, Pacquiao, Cotto, Juan Manuel Lopez etc and screwed with Golden Boy promotions and HBO at the same time. We know those two companies have been playing favorites with each other for a while now.

Good for Showtime, they have been showing quality boxing on the network for a long time even though they don't have the star power of HBO. I like Showtime cause they put on competitve fights and rarely ever do PPV. Been at least a couple of years since they've done a PPV event. Kind of reminds me of when Showtime scooped up Mike Tyson from HBO, who like Pacquiao was the biggest name in Boxing at the time.

I agree with you for lots of the reasons you have detailed however; looking from another perspective, this could also hurt boxing. It will all depend on how it unfold, and here is the other perspective or possibility.

We all know that some potential, good fights have been very difficult to sign or have not happened at all for the distance between the promotors or there williness/greed to keep all in house. Now we will also have boxer that not only have different promotors but will have different preferred network and/or the fighters might start getting contracts from these TV networks making the distance and level of negotiating even tougher than what it currently is.

Lets take for example Berto who is under contract with HBO and lets say that we would like to see him against a Cotto who signs with Showtime (example only). Besides Berto not being under Top Ranks, now the TV network contract will interfere also. Once again this is just and example.

Lets hope it doesn't get to this level and the competetion between these 2 networks just increase the effort of these companies to bring better quality fights.

By the way I like the aggressiveness because they accepted to present Cotto-Mayorga in PPV to challenge HBO non PPV card of Sergio Martinez.

I know Cotto-Mayorga will not sell a million or even a 1/2, but whatever it sells, will hurt badly the TV ratings that night for HBO.
This should put HBO on alert and to push for better quality fights.

[dyu]

Good move by Arum.

They get almost qaudruple the exposure with the entire cbs network backing the fight.

Plus i'm getting sick of the manny 24/7s.. it's gonna be interesting to see what fight camp is gonna look like.

Yea its a brilliant move actually.
Change is good for the ppl involved.

[FloydTBE]

Fight Camp > 24/7

yeah, dont get why some cats are mentioning 24/7, if shotime are gettin ppv, then itll be fight cmamp 360

[Dlostx]

Showtime pulled the Cotto vs. Mayorga first and now the Pacquiao vs. Mosley. Interesting...