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

[ChampBox@PR]

Dont you bunch of morons see the good side of this? 24/7 on CBS, that means boxing gets to be mainstream again. CBS can promote this in ways HBO cant even dream of.

Boxing wins with this fight on showtime whether we hardcore fans consider it a bull**** fight

[FloydTBE]

fight camp 360??

[jrosales13]

Think about it. How could HBO promote this fight after the way the HBO commentators talked about Mosley while he was fighting Mayweather? And now a year later there gonna turn around and say Mosley is good again now that he's fighting Pac? And for those of you that think this is gonna be huge because of SHOtime. Just look at Strikeforce lol.

Wow...Such a smart and clever comparison.

[Pocket Dogs!]

Dont you bunch of morons see the good side of this? 24/7 on CBS, that means boxing gets to be mainstream again. CBS can promote this in ways HBO cant even dream of.

Boxing wins with this fight on showtime whether we hardcore fans consider it a bull**** fight

I hate this fight but this is one positive I can take from this. Boxing becoming mainstream again, boxing on a network. If I was Floyd, I'd make my next fight on ABC, NBC, or CBS.

[DARKSEID]

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.

[ny123]

Dont you bunch of morons see the good side of this? 24/7 on CBS, that means boxing gets to be mainstream again. CBS can promote this in ways HBO cant even dream of.

Boxing wins with this fight on showtime whether we hardcore fans consider it a bull**** fight

I agree im not a big fan of this fight but im happy that boxing will be talked about on CBS and hopefully start to make a comeback with the common sports fans.

[jbpanama]

If this fights reaches over a million buys, I see Bob putting all his fighters on Showtime.

With NETWORK-CBS, Pimping the fight
2 MILLION BUYS Probable!!!

[jbpanama]

They carried Clottey and Margarito. He and Mosley do at least a million PPVs. That's $60M+ of revenue. Don't think HBO wanted to give that up. Wonder what Mr. Greenberg's take on the second bout of Mayweather-Pacquaio negotiations is now.

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

[adp023]

I definitely prefer HBO's coverage and commentary. Their HD cameras and overall photography during a fight on HBO has always been better quality than Showtime. But if CBS is producing and airing a weekly Pacquiao-Mosley 360 show, it will be refreshing and great for boxing!!

I never expected Pac to go with Showtime. If anything, I expected Floyd to go to that network. Then boxing would have another Tyson/Showtime vs. Lewis/HBO nightmare!! Maybe it will still happen....Pac with Showtime vs. Floyd with HBO. Please God....NOO!!!

As long as Pac doesn't sign a multi-fight deal with Showtime, we're safe!!

[IMDAZED]

Dont you bunch of morons see the good side of this? 24/7 on CBS, that means boxing gets to be mainstream again. CBS can promote this in ways HBO cant even dream of.

Boxing wins with this fight on showtime whether we hardcore fans consider it a bull**** fight

I really hope so. I think we can all sacrifice one crappy fight if it means getting the sport on a network like CBS. However, I'm a little leery because their first product is a PPV (I hope they wouldn't get involved on just that side of the business--and that's very likely) and Arum may have cornered that station, leaving other potential promoters (not named GBP) out in the cold and at their mercy. As if they weren't already.