Comments Thread For: Merchant Agrees With HBO For Rejecting Rigondeaux

[A-Wolf]

Duh. Merchant has always called for more brawling and violence in boxing. He'd rather see two drunks clubbing each other out in a bar fight than top athletes like Rigo inside a prize ring. We know.

[racostaa]

philippines had pancho villa in the 1920's and im pretty sure mexico had people too considering they have a very rich history in boxing

HaHa, you had to be drunk man. Pancho Villa from Phillipines and boxer.

[TrueGrit]

Merchant never appreciated boxers. Merchant didn't even appreciate Tyson. Merchant loved brawls. Merchant also isn't paying for any boxers retirement plan AFTER boxing.

lol wtf is this a federal job, athletes who partipiate in sports are considered independent contractors so they have to get their own health care, retirement, etc etc, this is why alot of them get into tax problems cause they get that check untaxed its on them to report that money and pay the taxes on it.

[v.cassiusali@ya]

boxing is not a marathon...inside the ring, the fighters are expected to outbox each other, not to outrun the other... if you want the fighters to outrun each other, then you might mistaken boxing for a marathon..

[Ray*]

Lol, what a tard acting like he's some kind of Bert Sugar or something. You can't answer my argument because you are ******ed and trying to make this into a natiolalistic argument when it has nothing to do with what I posted.

You are a fool who can't defend the dumb **** that you post.

People know you around here, you have zero credibility.. You are a nationalistic moron, if Rigo was Puerto Rican you wouldn't be replying to my post in the first place. Yes I can't answer your moronic argument because I don't discuss boxing with morons.

[Em1]

I understand HBO's decision from a business stand point. But essentially they are choosing to eat junk food instead of their vegetables at the big boy table. Good for them but there are always consequences.

[Ray*]

I understand HBO's decision from a business stand point. But essentially they are choosing to eat junk food instead of their vegetables at the big boy table. Good for them but there are always consequences.

That's the thing, of course we all understand their decisions from a business point of view but this is the same network with commentators who accuse boxers of cherry picking. You can't have it both way, the network is trying to make money by cherry picking their way just like the boxers they accuse.

[New England]

Duh. Merchant has always called for more brawling and violence in boxing. He'd rather see two drunks clubbing each other out in a bar fight than top athletes like Rigo inside a prize ring. We know.

merchant is realistic.

i don't always agree with him, but he understands HBO's objective.

a 122 lber with a completely negative style and no fanbase isn't good for business. i know you guys like rigondeaux, but that doesn't mean anything beyond the implications it has for HBO financially.


hell, a lot of the NSBers stream fights and don't even buy hbo. if you're in that boat you cannot complain.

[New England]

I understand HBO's decision from a business stand point. But essentially they are choosing to eat junk food instead of their vegetables at the big boy table. Good for them but there are always consequences.

luckily hbo has a competitor network.


HBO ditching rigondeaux will drive the price for his fights down and showtime may very well pick him up and capitalize on the opportunity.

[La_Vibora]

Sounds like they were banking on Nonito beating him in their match and now don't want to take the risk of him defeating anymore of their prospects.