Why did HBO cut Manny PAcquiao?

[sNiTcH]

HBO thinks Lady Gaga is more interesting than boxing. Floyd confirmed it .

[eklok]

hbo doesnt wonna make money , LOLS

[John Connor]

200k PPV buys is alot. Its the 2nd highest selling PPV of the year by far. The Mayorga trash talk before the fight really sold it. Your post is full of exaggerations it makes you look like a moron. The Majority of people were way more excited for the Cotto Mayorga fight. I heard ZERO promotion from the Martinez-Drizurick fight and had never heard or seen Drizurick fight before that.

The fact is that Cotto has done more for HBO than every fighter not named Pac or Floyd in the last decade and HBO ****ted on him. Cotto vs Foreman was the highest rated fight for HBO for the whole year in 2010. HBO has decided to sleep with GBP and it has cost them over 1.4 million PPVS so far this year. That number will AT LEAST double after Cotto fights Chavez Jr and Pac fights Marquez.

To sum it up HBO picked the wrong promotional company to side with and their sporting department will have its budget slashed even further to the point where they will have almost nothing to pay for fights. Ross Greenburg will be fired because he has already cost HBO millions of dollars in revenue.

this gay top rank cheerleader is a moron!.. cotto -mayorga was a joke of a fight... a professional athelete vs a clown... ofcourse hbo told them to take a hike.. by all means let top rank take there bull**** fights to showtimes....

i seriously want to know if you thought pacquiao/ mosley was a good fight????

[tibbar]

And exactly what boxing fan wanted to see Cotto vs Mayorga? 200 thousand Puerto Ricans bought that fight, great for Cotto. But nobody else wanted to see that fight. Every one on Boxingscene was more excited for the Martinez fight.

And what were the viewer numbers for the Martinez fight? Can you guys please start backing up what you say with numbers, links, videos, anything!?

yup you can say that again, boxingscene denizens are passionate about the sport but prefer to stream than buy nyahahaha.

[Grosser611]

I heard that the ratings were down and thats why they did it.

[PAKYO]

I heard that the ratings were down and thats why they did it.

And thereby making the rating much lower further?
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They let the goose that lays the golden egg to roost on the neighbours nest.

[LeG00N]

I heard they didn't want to be affiliated with Manny's political views ... so they cut him.

Arum being pissed off at HBO for singing a deal with Golden Boy Promotions and the opportunity to bring Boxing back to Network t.v. had nothing to do with it.

[gopi11]

it wasn't even that.


1. hbo wouldn't buy cotto-vanes (which i actually liked better than cotto-mayorga)

2. cotto-mayorga was made because hbo wouldn't buy cotto-martirosyan

3. showtime outbid hbo for pacquiao-mosley. hbo kept throwing money at arum but cbs/showtime offered them more as far as promotion stuff

All you boxing guys should know this. Tons of articles on why Showtime "won" out on the Pacquiao/Mosley fight, and this is what exactly happened...