HBO didn't want Cotto Vs Mayorga, but I bet they wnated Pac-Mosely.

[Rick Grimes]

They may say they wnat good fights and try and push for them, but when it came to Pac and Mosely, they just wnated your money.

They don't care, and I am glad Arum has said **** them.

**** HBO.

You think Bob Arum cares? He just wants your money.

[AnimalisticMeth]

hbo will be alright.This reminds me when don king took tyson and chavez
to showtime.Now look at king,Hes crying cause hbo dont give him dates.

HBO had Oscar at that time. Who they have now to fill Pacquiao's shoes? Mayweather is a part timer and De La Hoya is old and retired.

[jrosales13]

HBO kinda ******. cotto/mayorga is gonna destroy martinez/dzinziruk in the ratings.

I don't know about that one.

I will say this the really ****** people are the ones who will pay to watch Cotto and Christy Martin over Martinez.

But, we we'll see.

[onechance87]

HBO had Oscar at that time. Who they have now to fill Pacquiao's shoes? Mayweather is a part timer and De La Hoya is old and retired.

berto maybe?lol

[The Gambler1981]

No way Cotto-Mayorga gets a higher viewer percentage that is on PPV while Martinez will be on HBO. Cotto-Mayorga would have to do like 750k to atleast have a shot and probably would have to be over 1 million and that wouldn't even be doing well for HBO that would merely be doing below average.


Also if you are going to ask people to kick in more cash you better have the better product or at least perceived that way.

[The Gambler1981]

As for who is producing the PPV it isn't even that big a deal, it was always surprising that Showtime wasn't involved since they were voluntarily taking themselves out of the high end of the sport when really while the numbers are big they almost never lose (especially lose seriously). Even if Showtime is smaller but they do have enough resources that they should always have at least one of the top couple guys working for them, as boxing is a very star oriented sport if you aren't really with any of the main guys why be involved.


80 million in revenue isn't really shit to Time Warner or Viacom and would not consider boxing PPV to really be a part of their core business although expanding your market is usually good.

Interesting note though, Time Warner and Viacom are working together for March Madness this year (CBS,TBS,TNT) and since this will be the biggest sporting event CBS has during the build up, so it will be interesting to see it Time Warner can avoid helping them promote that fight big.

[Sweet Jesus]

HBO kinda ******. cotto/mayorga is gonna destroy martinez/dzinziruk in the ratings.

No it won't. Cotto-Mayorga is on PPV.

[Sweet Jesus]

I don't know about that one.

I will say this the really ****** people are the ones who will pay to watch Cotto and Christy Martin over Martinez.

But, we we'll see.

No chance. Martinez-Dzinziruk doing 800K live viewers would be a colossal failure. With that said, it would taken 10 Cotto-Mayorga fights to attain 800K PPV buys.

[Abraham Reyes]

the bottom line is HBO done f ucked up.

[johncods]

No HBO didn't want cotto-martirosyan which is strange because I thought that was a good fight. HBO screwed up bigtime by pissing off the Bobby.