Comments Thread For: Golden Boy's CEO on HBO's Decision To End Relationship

[jso416]

As much as I love Game of Thrones, I mainly subscribe for boxing. I will have no issue cancelling HBO, getting Showtime back, and getting the Game of Thrones episodes from a co worker. Im loyal, but not ******. If they wanna **** around and not get some of the best fights, then Im not giving them my money regardless of how much I love HBO.

Might be too soon, but...

R.I.P. HBO Boxing. Shame its coming to an end.

Lol, Good luck with that bro. Other then boxing, everything on Showtime is utter s-h-i-t. Really all HBO would have to do is bring back The Wire or The Sopranos and air it whenever Showtime airs a GBP event and HBO would easily smash Showtime into irrelevancy as far as ratings go.

[TOBYLEE1]

For a while HBO would not allow a Don King fight and if it was a co-promotion they simply wouldn't interview Don King and tried to isolate him as much as possible. Even when they said they wouldn't do business with Don King at one point the were obligated to a certain degree to deal with him cause of the meaningful match up

[Porter's Dad]

Schaefer playing the victim when he's been taking all his fighters over to Showtime anyway. This is just HBO dumping GBP before they get dumped by GBP in a long, drawn out process, as has been happening.

It's a complete mess.

[gbonafide]

the guy just got fired from showtime now he's going to get fired from hbo. all in all it's two pretty good severance packages

Where did you get that wrong information??

[PRBOXINGCOTTO]

Bye bye hobo boxing Gbp has all the good fighters

[Supreme Being]

Showtime had Floyd...HBO had BRADLEY!!!! Bwa hahaha

[edgarg]

Bob ARUM was penalized $125,000 by the Nevada State Athletic Commission in 1995 for a bribe to get one of his fights sanctioned.

On the first week of January 2004, FBI agents raided Arum's Top Rank office in Las Vegas. Arum was on vacation when his office was raided, and the FBI originally declined to comment on the raid.

in 2000 bob arum admitted during a federal trial that he bribed the International Boxing Federation president in order to gain a more favorable rating for one of his fighters.


you got any other nice things to say about arum??

so who is the bad guy here golden boy or top rank??

You have everything very slanted. I wonder why. The New Joisey Chairman Lee, demanded $200,000 to rank Axel Schultz, who was to fight George Foreman.

{{Everyone felt that Schultz won the fight. Foreman was stripped for refusing to give him a rematch. So the Foreman saga ended with him having his record-breaking title for one fight-which he probably lost}}.

Arum was forced to pay it to be able to stage the fight. At Lee's trial, Arum voluntarily came forward to testify without immunity, even though he could have been granted it. Althogether about 30 others gave evidence that they'd been "held-up" by Lee, including several very well known promoters.

The ban that NSAC imposed was very petty. He wasn't allowed to be in the ring before and after fights for 6 months.

Yes, I have a few nice things to say about him, in which he's different from many others in the same business. He always speaks the truth under oath. Also, he's extraordinarily charitable, and specifically doesn't seek any public praise about it.

[jso416]

Showtime had Floyd...HBO had BRADLEY!!!! Bwa hahaha

Except Floyd will probably never actually fight on Showtime, and Bradley was just part of a classic

[edgarg]

The payment to Bobby Lee was in 1994, the fight was in 1995, and Bobby Lee's trial and the NSAC penalty were in 2000.... Before Arum went into the boxing business he'd been head of a Federal Tax department under Bobby Kennedy, and after that was a law partner with world famous Louis Nizer. He came into boxing with money and a top reputation.

I remember the Florida chairman a guy called I think, Sc(i)onti, who took a huge bribe from Don King. Jeb Bush fired him.

[SkillspayBills]

What fools HBO are. You sensitive ****ing morons have just shunned yourself from 100s of fighters who could bring you big money. Showtimes is going to take over now.