Arum: "SHOWTIME Has Upperhand For Cotto-Margarito II"

[onechance87]

and???

Alvarez hasnt fought one guy on the level of the fighters cotto has fought

3 bums in a row for Alvarez lol

rhodes was a top ten jmw bro.

[heat27]

rhodes was a top ten jmw bro.

Ryan Rhodes LOL

my point proven

[onechance87]

Ryan Rhodes LOL

my point proven

Canelo is coming for cotto.

[Heeb]

Canelo is coming for cotto.

No he isn't. By the time Canelo's handlers put him in with world class opposition Cotto will be out of the sport.

[paulf]

Damn, I forgot this was going to be a PPV. They had better stack the card if they wan't be buying.

Both guys have worked hard and deserve the final big W of their careers, but I have a feeling Margarito wants it a lot more and will stop Cotto again.

Props to both guys for signing the contract.

[Carpe Diem]

I hope Showtime will show their punches stats.

[Daniel Alpha]

Initially, Arum said whichever company got the rights to Pacquiao-Marquez III would also get the Dec. 3 Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito rematch, another major fight. HBO PPV did their initial fight in 2008 while Showtime PPV did Cotto's win against Ricardo Mayorga in March.

Arum said he eventually changed his mind about making the two fights a package deal.

"Showtime still has a position on the Cotto fight because they did the last one, so Monday we'll start talking to them," Arum said. "When Todd and I had further discussions and we realized that it wasn't the most advantageous thing to do, to make a package deal. Showtime did such a great job for us on the last Pacquiao fight and it would be important and good for the sport for Showtime to stay involved in these major pay-per-view fights. So if Showtime meets certain proposals that we're going to make, and we get the support we need from them, then it behooves everybody to go with them. That way we keep more people and en****** involved and it's great for the sport.

"I don't want to go back to the situation where there is one entity doing all the major pay-per-views and that entity does the same thing over and over and gets into this narrow box, which I felt the pay-per-views were in because they had been successful and we kept repeating the same thing over and over again. That is not a way to grow a sport. You grow it by being innovative and having competition and new ideas."

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id...arquez-rematch

The article also details some specifics of the Pacquiao-Marquez deal.

I just hope if they do a Fight Camp, that they give some shine to Donaire and Gamboa. Those guys are studs and deserve to be exposed to larger audiences. Arum is right though, keeping SHOW/CBS in the PPV/big fight game is better for the sport as a whole. They wouldn't have gotten the Time Warner package for Pac-Marquez if SHOW/CBS hadn't rolled out the red carpet for Pac-Mosley, and now Cotto-Margarito/Donaire/Gamboa might reap the benefits as well. A bit of competition from SHOW/CBS will only force HBO to step their game up, as is evidenced by the recent news.

When it comes to business, you just can't school this ***. He knows the ins-and-outs of the business aspect of boxing.

[Phenom]

they got a ****ty offer from HBO if any for this fight



at Arum trying to start a bidding war for this POS Main event

[AnimalisticMeth]

I would like the fight to happen on HBO but If Showtime offers a Fight Camp and HBO doesn't offer a 24/7 then go with Showtime. Also after losing Pacquiao to HBO Showtime will bid hard because losing 3rd biggest draw in boxing(Miguel Cotto) is not something they can afford.

[FloydTBE]

that tells me that ac-marquez 3 will be on shotime also