Comments Thread For: Kathy Duva outlines Al Haymon's deal with NBC Sports

[Tobi.G]

Iron Mike Promotions could have easily beaten this numbers if Tyson hadnt wasted his Money.

[Tobi.G]

20 mil with no guarantees?

The guy in your Avatar looks like he has some serious mental issues.

[Daylyt]

I am with Kathy Duva on this one, Haymon better not **** it up cause if he does no networks are gonna mess with boxing for a while and that will just make HBO and showtime stronger.

I cant wait till boxing is on network television.

[racer59]

The guy in your Avatar looks like he has some serious mental issues.

He does, yet he still got tons of pussay:

[Weebler I]

I don't even know where to start with this one. If Haymon PAID NBC spots money for dates, that can be a real problem for boxing fans. That would mean that Haymon would be able to sell advertising to recoup his money. The price is less than $1 million per broadcast. Haymon can earn that amount back by selling five commercials. What that means is that Haymon could continue to provide boxing fans with crappy fights like Garcia/Salka and still make a profit because he will make enough money from selling commercials to pay for the cost of the broadcast and pay the fighters and still end up with a few million in his pocket.

Second, how the hell is it posslble that Cathy Duva, a supposedly major promoter, could allow Haymon to outbid her? She claimed that she made no money off the last few fights. That is because they were crappy fights that people did not want to pay to see. That is also because she does not have a quality stable of fighters to put in the ring. The only potential star she has is Kovalev and Hopkins will expose him in November.. I guess she will now go back to taking handouts from HBO or begging Showtime to throw her a bone.

It depends how much he receives for commercials. American Idol commercials are 500k for 30 seconds and that has been the ceiling. An NBC boxing show is going to be way less, maybe as low as 50k so he'll have to put on good fights to get bigger advertisers interested.

Also, Main Events aren't major promoters and you have a lot of confidence in Hopkins.

[Thickback]

If they don't include shows that follow boxers or boxing news type shows to push popularity and exposure then the success will be minimal imo.

[Deevel916]

I agree with what this poster said:

The only reason hes doing this is because...

A. HBO does not want him.

B. Espinoza is about to get the axe and haymon is prolly going down with him for giving the fans shiet fights and mayweather not being able to generate income for showtime.

The networks are suppose to pay the promoter/s. Not the other way around!

[radioraheem]

It depends how much he receives for commercials. American Idol commercials are 500k for 30 seconds and that has been the ceiling. An NBC boxing show is going to be way less, maybe as low as 50k so he'll have to put on good fights to get bigger advertisers interested.

Also, Main Events aren't major promoters and you have a lot of confidence in Hopkins.

You have a source for these commercial numbers?

[Weebler I]

You have a source for these commercial numbers?

I saw a good graphic but I couldn't find it again, but this is from 2011 which gives you a rough idea of what a commercial costs. You can flick through the days.

http://adage.com/article/media/chart-american-idol-nfl-duke-priciest-tv-spot/230547/#mon

Sunday night football on NBC was equal with American Idol, it cost $512k for a 30 minute commercial but the average viewers is 27 million. Hard to see boxing show pulling anywhere close to that.

[richardt]

The guy in your Avatar looks like he has some serious mental issues.

That's ATG/HOF actor Kirk Douglas playing a boxer.