HBO Is Sinking... Good Thing They've Found Gold In GGG

[Hougigo]

Haven't they got Sergey Kovalev too? Chavez Jr? Manny Pacquiao?

They just signed Kovalev and Chavez Jr and Pac have been gone for almost a year now.

GGG has fought on HBO twice already and still has 1 more to go... if he's lucky maybe two. They haven't been really paying him that much.

[-EX-]

Undercard wasn't good but I wouldn't count HBO out...sometimes all it takes is one big win and a hype train can begin...

[-DSG-]

Did you really just challenge people to tell you which Showtime fights were better than Froch vs Kessler?

Sorry, but I can't take you seriously.

Yeah tell me which one was?

[turkas]

They picked up those fights because Hershman's priority is getting the best fights possible regardless of who they are or where they're from which is how it should be. Not whoring the network out to Golden Boy and Haymon giving guys like Berto over a million dollars to make bum defenses against Freddy Hernandez the way HBO used to be run.

Using that M.O. they got Golovkin and Kovalev two of the most exciting rising starts in the sport and Provodnikov vs Bradley in the possible FOTY. Seems to be working okay.

I don't think he's trying to buy the best fights out there no matter what, he is trying to build up guys in 160-175 so they have opponents for GGG, Ward, Martinez, and a lesser extent JCC jr. He doesn't care about the exciting fights per say, he just wants to build some of these guys up so the fights with the networks stars are bigger.

[crold1]

The two undercard fights were horrendous. Their recent shows have been crap. Showtime is str8 owning the former boxing network king. It must suck to me HBO right now. Golden Boy and Mayweather are strictly Showtime and HBO is sucking worse than Showtime has ever ******... and that's pretty bad. Good thing for HBO that they have that Mad Magazine looking mother****er, dude is a freakin' animal. GGG is Gold at the moment... he KO's Sergio, Canelo & Chavez Jr. I won't mention Floyd, cuz he'll never consider fighting GGG.

Worse than Showtime has ever ******? You must be young and not remember some of the late 90s/early 2000s dreck on that network.

[king Ketchel]

GGG cant fight every weekend.

your sig is epic.

[Weebler I]

They picked up those fights because Hershman's priority is getting the best fights possible regardless of who they are or where they're from which is how it should be.

Yep, I feel like HBO is the global boxing station showing the best fights wherever they take place.

Buenos Aires, London, New York, Macau...if a good fight is taking place HBO are there.

most of the fight of the year candidates have been HBO fights...(i.e. bradley vs provodnikov, rios vs alvarado 2, froch vs kessler 2, etc.)

^^^^^^

They just signed Kovalev and Chavez Jr and Pac have been gone for almost a year now.

GGG has fought on HBO twice already and still has 1 more to go... if he's lucky maybe two. They haven't been really paying him that much.

Pacquiao fought in December, it's only July and he's back in Oct/Nov, Chavez back next month. I was referencing the future re. Kovalev and obviously you have Golovkin there too.

[freudianslip]

I don't think they're sinking. Unexpected solid fights early in the year with Pacquiao, Marquez, Ward, and perhaps another GGG fight in the later half of the year it's safe to say they'll be alright. Plus the ratings don't seem to suggest it. Good for boxing. Now if we could only get Golden Boy and TR to quit being idiots.

[SkillspayBills]

HBO did it to themselves. Their female like sensitivity cut off an entire spigot of GBP fighters. Fools.

[HeroBando]

HBO did it to themselves. Their female like sensitivity cut off an entire spigot of GBP fighters. Fools.

It's no big loss. All they were getting from GBP was Broner, Thurman, and Hopkins. The only one they care about losing is Broner, but not if it cost them 2.5m in purses for a 14-1 showcase against Paulie.