Yes, of course. My point is that Showtime wants more subscribers...so they loaded up on Showtime boxing cards in 2013. The main events and co-features, for the most part, were fantastic. They spent a lot of money on those cards in an effort to win subscriptions. Investing in Floyd was the genesis and the basis for all of it. They, mistakenly, assumed if they got Floyd, they would become THE boxing network. It certainly looked like it last year, because they were spending so freely. This year? Not so much.
The end game was the Floyd PPVs would offset any losses there and get them in the black. The Guerrero PPV flopped, so they did Canelo and recouped (presumably) everything. Now the Maidana PPV didn't do so well, either, and now we've got two more Canelo PPVs this year, Floyd on PPV in September, and probably another PPV or two...these are needed to recoup the money for Floyd's contract and therefore Showtime is less willing to spend big on Showtime boxing cards.
They are obviously not the same thing but they are also obviously connected.
The end game was the Floyd PPVs would offset any losses there and get them in the black. The Guerrero PPV flopped, so they did Canelo and recouped (presumably) everything. Now the Maidana PPV didn't do so well, either, and now we've got two more Canelo PPVs this year, Floyd on PPV in September, and probably another PPV or two...these are needed to recoup the money for Floyd's contract and therefore Showtime is less willing to spend big on Showtime boxing cards.
They are obviously not the same thing but they are also obviously connected.
or probably don't have a choice.

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