Bob Arum/HBO send Rigo into exile, his fight will NOT be televised! SMH

[Inkanyamba]

Dontaesboxingnation reporting. Sad thing is this is on Shiming's undercard. Yes, Zoe fuc*ing Shiming's undercard. LOL!

[Build That Wall]

Arum is an ******

[DreamMerchant12]

Arum's mad because Rigo took Donaire to school. **** Arum.

[Redd Foxx]

Wasn't his last fight a ratings disaster? TV isn't a charity. If you don't bring in the viewers, you don't get the air time. Very simple concept.

[DreamMerchant12]

Wasn't his last fight a ratings disaster? TV isn't a charity. If you don't bring in the viewers, you don't get the air time. Very simple concept.

That's not the problem; Arum's job is to promote his fighters, and him blackballing Rigo is a sure fire way to keep him from getting much more fans, let alone any TV time. If Arum wanted to, he'd be able to get Rigo another HBO fight but he simply doesn't give a ****.

[Rocky Rode]

Wasn't his last fight a ratings disaster? TV isn't a charity. If you don't bring in the viewers, you don't get the air time. Very simple concept.

It was pretty bad. The undercard had more viewers than the main event and most of the arena was empty during his fight. I've never heard of anything like that happening. It's really sad when you think about it. I think Top Rank did a decent job at building him up. They got him on a few Pacquaio undercards and TV slots on HBO and Showtime. Rigo is a brilliant talent, but outside of hardcore boxing fans no one cares about him.

[thuggery]

First of all what is Daeontae whatever the hell his name is source? Sounds like he's making it up.

Going through a couple of his videos, he doesn't seem reliable, in fact he seems like one of those "boo hoo everyone hates us cause our skin color" types. No surprise he has numerous HBO/Top Rank hate videos. He seems like your typical butthurt flomo battered in red K.

I also read in an article that was put out on BS that it was HBO that was refusing to air future Rigo fights unless his viewership went up. It was Arum who had to pull strings just to get the Cuban his TV dates. And yeah, it's a pretty simple concept, you don't bring the viewers you get shafted. Pretty sure the arena was close to EMPTY in his last fight.

[Based_God]

Honestly that really is embarrassing of both HBO and top rank and people want to spend time only blaming haymon around here..

We get it, they're upset he completely made donaire look like a fool after the heavy investment both top rank and HBO made, but to completely punish him for it is just crazy,

I wonder how the NBA would be seen if they banned the Hawks for beating the Lakers, or if the MLB banned he Astros off TV for beating the Yankees....

Nope wouldn't happen, only in boxing...


Oh and also shimming is a bum ass fighter, HBO and their commentators are a bunch of sell outs for gassing that dude up like he's a beast, hes trash!

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

He's going to be televised on Unimas. Big deal. Still being televised.

[tangalog2200]

That's not the problem; Arum's job is to promote his fighters, and him blackballing Rigo is a sure fire way to keep him from getting much more fans, let alone any TV time. If Arum wanted to, he'd be able to get Rigo another HBO fight but he simply doesn't give a ****.

easy for you to say that....

it's not your money....