Kovlaev-Agnew: HBO production values, empty arena & other miscellaneous observations

[King_]

Lol this was his first HBO headline fight, of course nobody in the Atlantic City area will know who the hell Sergey Kovalev is




Brb not a "star" so doesn't deserve Adonis


That fight could of sold 100 tickets and he would still be as good as he is and still a titlist meaning Adonis avoiding Kovalev is still a duck.


Quack

[HeroBando]

HBO is turning into ****, and now they aren't even willing to overpay unless it's a complete in house commentator like Ward.

Why would they overpay for a **** fight like Fonfara if they couldn't get a guarantee for Kovalev?

[-MAKAVELLI-]

she was smiling. I found that weird

15 kids doe

she probably didn't even know which kid it was that was getting beat up

[ИATAS]

WRONG.

Kovalev was on the undercard. His fight did about 400,000 viewers. Stevenson's main event bout did 1.3 million.

From boxingscene:

" Stevenson-Bellew had 1,305,000 viewers and peaked at 1,358,000 viewers. Kovalev's KO win over Ismayl Sillakh had 1,254,000 viewers."

Source -http://www.boxingscene.com/adonis-stevensons-promoter-reveals-on-hbo-kovalev--76193

[Da Machine]

Why would they overpay for a **** fight like Fonfara if they couldn't get a guarantee for Kovalev?

Sorry man, 3m for a tuneup is not defendable. HBO has the money, and have been unwilling to spend like they use to since GBP left. They don't trust anyone in boxing or dictate anything in boxing anymore. They should just get out the game, and allow a real network to take over like ESPN, or one of the big ass cablenetworks like CBS or ABC, NBC

[Citizen Koba]

WRONG.

Kovalev was on the undercard. His fight did about 400,000 viewers. Stevenson's main event bout did 1.3 million.

Uh..no...

http://www.boxingscene.com/adonis-stevensons-promoter-reveals-on-hbo-kovalev--76193

Stevenson - Bellew 1.305mil

Kovalev - Sillakh 1.254mil

[HeroBando]

Sorry man, 3m for a tuneup is not defendable. HBO has the money, and have been unwilling to spend like they use to since GBP left. They don't trust anyone in boxing or dictate anything in boxing anymore. They should just get out the game, and allow a real network to take over like ESPN, or one of the big ass cablenetworks like CBS or ABC, NBC

it's Andre Ward though, he's earned a high priced tuneup as much as anyone. Doesn't mean they should overpay for all tuneups, that's a really bad way to go

[Weebler I]

WRONG.

Kovalev was on the undercard. His fight did about 400,000 viewers. Stevenson's main event bout did 1.3 million.

This is lies, Kovalev-Sillakh did 1.3 million.

Just another red bar SDF Superquack member trying to misinform people.

[BennyBlanco]

Just another red bar SDF Superquack member trying to misinform people.

Huh? This thread isn't about Stevenson. Didn't even mention Stevenson at all in my original post. I misread the ratings, but how does that make me a Stevenson defender.

[Masterclass775]

Sorry man, 3m for a tuneup is not defendable. HBO has the money, and have been unwilling to spend like they use to since GBP left. They don't trust anyone in boxing or dictate anything in boxing anymore. They should just get out the game, and allow a real network to take over like ESPN, or one of the big ass cablenetworks like CBS or ABC, NBC

Interesting you say that... Dan Rafael states that ESPn is the sleeping giant and that they could take the game over If they committed their (some not all) resources to boxing