Comments Thread For: Arum Yanked at Request of SHO From Conference Call

[radioraheem]

Thomas Hauser dedicated entire articles to the subject, and he talked in depth about the decline in the quality, budget and ratings of boxing on HBO.

One example:

What's your problem?

Did you NOT see where I said it was NOT forum chatter? I was specifically talking about how it wasn't a common or often spoken upon subject in the forum. A lot of posters weren't chattering about it til the point where they were saying 'HBO is going to go out of business' because they were spending so much money on professional boxing. And they were funding fights between Top Rank and Golden Boy at the same time. Their budget was HUGE.

[Mitchell Kane]

What's your problem?

Did you NOT see where I said it was NOT forum chatter? I was specifically talking about how it wasn't a common or often spoken upon subject in the forum. A lot of posters weren't chattering about it til the point where they were saying 'HBO is going to go out of business' because they were spending so much money on professional boxing. And they were funding fights between Top Rank and Golden Boy at the same time. Their budget was HUGE.

It was discussed on the forums I was at the time, because I remember the discussions.

[SoulByThePound]

#PacquiaoBradley made 800K without big names in the undercard.
#MayweatherMaidana with an undercard full of big names, not even 900K

We can add #MayweatherCanelo as a huge success, but not forgetting Guerrero and Maidana were big failures.

Compare Stevenson's numers in HBO to Showtime. I don't give a **** about bragging rights, but HBO almost doubled Showtime's numbers.

So, you need to be careful with that statement.

WHO SAYS pacbrad did 800k? Arum?