Who began this trend of switching networks to avoid fighters?

[jas]

I am trying to trace this trend back to its origin.

[artfuL_]

[-PANDA-]

it's easy to blame floyd but he actually had legitimate reasons to switch to showtime...fact of the matter is ever since showtime decided to exclusively deal with haymon and gbp and hbo cutting ties with them did the opportunity present itself for fighters to duck other fighters by switching networks

[soul_survivor]

Iron Mike switched over to Showtime and was one of the reasons why the Lewis fight couldn't me made for years but then the two networks worked through their differences, as did Arum and King...and you know why? Because the two fighters wanted the fight.

Right now, we have one man, a certain lil ***** boy who doesn't want to fight and isn't letting his team and his promoter do their job.

[SeekDaGreat]

Lol, "good question."

[Larry the boss]

OK then why don't you be "consistent" then?Why are you not criticizing Kovalev for choosing cleverly over Hopkins even though Kovalev was mandatory to Hopkins belt?And why isn't you criticizing GGG for picking Chavez over Ward,even though Ward is the top dog at 168?And its your opinion that Kovalev is a better fight for Stevenson then Hopkins.Logic says that Stevenson vs Hopkins make more sense now since they are ranked number 1 and number 2 in their weight class respectively.A lot of you are just bias fan boys who only want your favorite fighters to fight fighters you people believe can win.All three of them need to fight each over.And their needs to be a unification between all 4 belt-holders to determine whose the number one 175 pounder.

that Either

[MaskedMurderer]

[tank17211]

I am trying to trace this trend back to its origin.

Yea thats a bit too much. Leaving a network to avoid a fighter. I can see Floyd doing it though because he wants to retire undefeated.

[sbbigmike]

ROFL





Yall funny, but when a JMW champ is going on a lww and below tour(3 years now) we hear nothing about it.........................

[SeekDaGreat]

Canibus?????