Comments Thread For: Arum: HBO Was Being Played By Schaefer and Haymon

[elfag]

HBO realizes that within a few years Arum is going to die and Pacquiao is going to retire? Not the best strategy to entirely write off all of GBP in favor of a Top Rank with so many unknowns when GBP management is not 80 years old and they have some young guys like Canelo and Broner.

Give this 5 years, I wont be surprised if the HBO Sports president gets fired.

[KickAzz]

HBO don't want GBP making money off them for a while to show GBP that they need to show a little loyalty... Once a new HBO sports guy gets housed things will go back to normal

[jso416]

Lol, how do you figure? Showtime has pound for pound kings Floyd Mayweather, Canelo Alvarez, Adrian Broner, etc with many more to follow. So I think you meant Showtime > HBO.

Maybe that might be true if the world revolved around boxing.. too bad it doesn't. HBO>>> Showtime.

[-PBP-]

Maybe that might be true if the world revolved around boxing.. too bad it doesn't. HBO>>> Showtime.

Exactly. I'd be interested to see if this even shifts the margin in subscribers between the 2 networks.

I think its like a 7 million person difference or something like that.

[DoktorSleepless]

Schaefer said that HBO's highest rated fights last year and this year were all from Golden Boy.

Let's see if Arum can deliver those types of ratings.

From last year:

1. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Marco Antonio Rubio, Feb. 4, HBO, 1.9 million
2. Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson, April 28, HBO, 1.6 million
3. Chavez Jr.-Andy Lee, June 16, HBO, 1.6 million
4. Adrien Broner-Vicente Escobedo, July 21, HBO, 1.4 million
5. Nonito Donaire-Jorge Arce, Dec. 15, HBO, 1.3 million
6. Andre Ward-Chad Dawson, Sept. 8, HBO, 1.3 million
7. Danny Garcia-Amir Khan, July 14, HBO, 1.3 million

[JoeKickAss]

From last year:

1. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Marco Antonio Rubio, Feb. 4, HBO, 1.9 million
2. Bernard Hopkins-Chad Dawson, April 28, HBO, 1.6 million
3. Chavez Jr.-Andy Lee, June 16, HBO, 1.6 million
4. Adrien Broner-Vicente Escobedo, July 21, HBO, 1.4 million
5. Nonito Donaire-Jorge Arce, Dec. 15, HBO, 1.3 million
6. Andre Ward-Chad Dawson, Sept. 8, HBO, 1.3 million
7. Danny Garcia-Amir Khan, July 14, HBO, 1.3 million

Bolded now apart of Showtime.

[Scarcaztic]

Exactly. I'd be interested to see if this even shifts the margin in subscribers between the 2 networks.

I think its like a 7 million person difference or something like that.

Yeah. You can't compete with HBO's stable of original series.

[teddycanyon]

Yes! Looking forward to such top Rank offerings as Rios-Alvarado, Bradley-Marquez, Mikey Garcia-Donaire, Pacquiao-Marquez V. uhhhhhhhhh....

Bradley vs. Mike Jones. Provodnikov-Rios. Jesse Vargas-Omatoso II...

...that dude from the Subway commercials...

...Rios vs. himself...
should be enough to fill up the next few years, no? Who needs Golden Boy and most of the top fighters in the sport?

[-PBP-]

Yeah. You can't compete with HBO's stable of original series.

Yup. And besides, ShowTime been producing some bull****.

Canelo vs. Josesito Lopez
Khan vs. Molina
Matthysse vs. Dallas Jr.
Abril vs. Bogere
Broner vs. Malignaggi
Tried to give us Mosley vs. Malignaggi
Garcia vs. Judah

GBP been getting better but Top Rank has put out the better product over the past year or so.

[Pain~Lucy]

HBO dont only have TR, they got other promotions so it still good, lol at HBO=TR showtime=GBP