Why didn't HBO televise Pacquiao/Mosley?

[ChampBox@PR]

They rejected Cotto-Martirosyan. The Mayorga fight was not offered to HBO.

Yeap, it was for 1.5mill that Arum offer it, so it was cheap too!

[Dedication]

HBO were pushing for Pac vs Mayweather from what I remembered.

[-Huey-]

HBO rejected Cotto vs Vanes, so that greedy old bastard had a tantrum. Pac vs Mosley was a huge fail, HBO didn't even care for it, how big a fail you ask? Well, big enough to not release the pathetic PPV numbers obviously. For the idiot *******s talking out of their asses..Greenburg resigned voluntarily, read before flapping your lips. It was reported here on Boxingscene, can you not read?

[ModernTalking]

They knew it was going to be a failure and an ********.

And it was.

You wouldn't know because you can't count LOL.

[ИATAS]

Showtime offered a better deal because HBO wasn't even interested in either fights.


We all know Showtime gets HBO rejects. Pac-Mosley was a reject of a match in all ways.

"It hurt a lot to lose Pacquiao." - Ross Greenburg

“Ross was very dejected,” one person said of their conversation. “I felt sorry for him.” source


You think it was a coinsidence that shortly after Pac went to showtime there were strong, credible rumors that Greenburg was going to be let go? Thomas Hauser and other respected people told us months ago this is exactly what would happen, and it did.

If you think HBO didn't want the sports biggest name other than Floyd, you're crazy.

There was no ethical decision to reject a Pac-Mosley fight, you're dreaming if you think otherwise. They wouldn't have bent over backwards in the end trying to get the fight happen in a last ditch effort, even inviting bob arum to meet with Richard Plepler, the head of HBO in his own private office (by then it was too late though) who rarely meets with Boxing promoters. Again it was viewed as a huge blunder on Greenburgs part.

Again this isn't the only reason, but it was a big part of it.

[JOM'S]

lol hbo didn't drop it top rank got a great deal with showtime/cbs. Greenburg was let go likely because of it.

yup this was about it ...

[IMDAZED]

that was a big part of it, it was viewed as a big blunder on his part. That only added to a long list of bad mistakes he's made over the years with boxing.

Come on, NATAS. Why was it a bad mistake?