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

[Luilun]

If the crappy cards continue NBC will cancel the contract

[HanzGruber]

since they are only selling the airtime to Haymon, odds are they will not have any editorial control over the actual bouts..........

Yea he's paying them doubt they'll have any say in it lol. Plus I'm sure the first nbc show will be sick to show them it can get good rating.

[HanzGruber]

If the crappy cards continue NBC will cancel the contract

He's paying them. I don't think they care about salka vs Garcia. That still got good ratings cause Danny's a name and casuals cant tell the difference between a salka and a top 20 guy

[al-Xander]

Don't know how upset Espinoza would be if Haymon made fights at NBC involving his prize fighters fighting each other. As everyone knows, Showtime has been paying huge amounts of money on sparring sessions and Salka type fights.

[Big_L]

How does Haymon convince his fighter to stay with him instead of going over to HBO and fighting a Pac/Canelo/Cotto on PPV? The money wouldn't seem to be comparable.

[RSBonos]

That article is confusing...so Haymon is spending 20 million of his own money???

Unless he has oil money to burn this will never work. It doesn't even work on paper.

[al-Xander]

That article is confusing...so Haymon is spending 20 million of his own money???

Unless he has oil money to burn this will never work. It doesn't even work on paper.

$20 million for 24 fight dates is cheap, which makes it confusing. If it is that cheap, Donald Trump would have his Apprentice show shown weekly.

[Mitchell Kane]

She wasn't asked about Haymon. Her buisness is her promotions not the network . She just always running her mouth. Who knows if all this is even true.

Main Events has worked with NBC for a long time, you don't think she might have contacts there?

Main Events (via their lawsuit) sure seemed to know an awful lot about GBP and what was going on there.

[Mitchell Kane]

Sums up Espinoza's year

These people ain***39;t loyal.

— Stephen Espinoza (@StephenEspinoza) September 26, 2014

So Espinoza only realizes this now that he's the one they're not "loyal" to?

He can't complain now, cuz he wasn't complaining when it was benefitting him.

[The Big Dunn]

Don't know how upset Espinoza would be if Haymon made fights at NBC involving his prize fighters fighting each other. As everyone knows, Showtime has been paying huge amounts of money on sparring sessions and Salka type fights.

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