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You guys are missing the big picture.
Golden Boy has 140-154 locked down but their presence in the other divisions is practically non-existent. Seth Mitchell and I think Deontay Wilder at heavyweight, Bernard Hopkins at light heavyweight (but he is on his way out, let's be real), Mares at super bantamweight.
They have a lot of named fighters at 140-154 but that means a lot of fighters to divide up Showtimes budget, and probably not much room for anything else.
You guys are forgetting all the great fighters in other weight classes that WILL be fighting on HBO. They are heavily invested in the middleweight division (Martinez, Chavez, Golovkin), super middleweight division (Andre Ward, Carl Froch, Lucian Bute, Mikkel Kessler), and light heavyweight division (Chad Dawson, Tavoris Cloud, Jean Pascal). They have Donaire in super bantamweight who is frankly a bigger star than Mares in terms of ratings.
The guys I listed are almost all top 20 or top 10 pound for pound fighters. HBO has the budget to invest in these varied divisions.
Showtime has tied themselves to Golden Boy for better or worse. I doubt they will have enough funds to invest in these other divisions, since they will have to cover many of the GBP "stars" that will now only fight on their network.
I have not even mentioned Top Rank's four big stars in the vicinity of welterweight, Manny Pacquiao, Tim Bradley, Juan Manuel Marquez and Brandon Rios. Those four guys are as good as Golden Boy's best four guys at the same weight, they are certainly good enough to carry shows on their own.
Golden Boy has 140-154 locked down but their presence in the other divisions is practically non-existent. Seth Mitchell and I think Deontay Wilder at heavyweight, Bernard Hopkins at light heavyweight (but he is on his way out, let's be real), Mares at super bantamweight.
They have a lot of named fighters at 140-154 but that means a lot of fighters to divide up Showtimes budget, and probably not much room for anything else.
You guys are forgetting all the great fighters in other weight classes that WILL be fighting on HBO. They are heavily invested in the middleweight division (Martinez, Chavez, Golovkin), super middleweight division (Andre Ward, Carl Froch, Lucian Bute, Mikkel Kessler), and light heavyweight division (Chad Dawson, Tavoris Cloud, Jean Pascal). They have Donaire in super bantamweight who is frankly a bigger star than Mares in terms of ratings.
The guys I listed are almost all top 20 or top 10 pound for pound fighters. HBO has the budget to invest in these varied divisions.
Showtime has tied themselves to Golden Boy for better or worse. I doubt they will have enough funds to invest in these other divisions, since they will have to cover many of the GBP "stars" that will now only fight on their network.
I have not even mentioned Top Rank's four big stars in the vicinity of welterweight, Manny Pacquiao, Tim Bradley, Juan Manuel Marquez and Brandon Rios. Those four guys are as good as Golden Boy's best four guys at the same weight, they are certainly good enough to carry shows on their own.
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