Haymon NBC Deal

[big_james10]

You guys all hate the man so why even give a ****?

Good point. The haters are looking for something that they can criticize him about.

[soul_survivor]

Al Hymen is the future though

[big_james10]

I can't wait for his fighters one by one to begin suing him to get out of their contracts. Surely to god they are going to eventually see that he is harming their careers.

So, what you are saying is that you hope Haymon's fighters start acting like Bob Arum's fighters have been acting for years.

[mikinoki]

boxing problems....

[al-Xander]

When do you think is the first Haymon card which will covered by NBC? Any guesses? ...This guy is too secretive.

[AddiX]

When do you think is the first Haymon card which will covered by NBC? Any guesses? ...This guy is too secretive.

I'm starting to wonder if he's having financial problems putting this together.

From an investors viewpoint it's a terrible investment. And even if he has the investors for this project, he's going to find it hard to secure the advertising $ he needs to do this.

And we haven't even gotten to the fact that he doesn't even have an actual promotional company yet, he needs an entire staff to do this.

But going into next year he only has one fight scheduled on Showtime as of right now, so something is keeping him from making fights right now.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

If reports are true and he is spending 20-25 million to buy airtime, I would assume he is planning on bringing big fights to nbc and not the usual mismatches.. That's a lot of money to be spending for it not to be major fights.. With that kind of money I'm expecting fights like danny-Peterson, Maidana-ghost, thurman-Porter, broner-lucas.. I just don't see him spending millions to broadcast danny-salka type fights..
I think that is one of the reasons his fighters have been so protected this past year.. He was saving them for his own broadcasts

[Pigeons]

He already has, where we would be without HBO standing up to him?

Haymon fighters have won like 33/33 of the last fights on Showtime. All complete mismatches mostly. Look at Showtimes lineup this past year, its a joke.

It's no mystery why there ratings have plummeted.

Lomachenko beat Russell Jr, Dirrell beat Bika, Brook beat Porter, De La Rosa beat Angulo, Bey beat Vazquez, and Karpency beat Dawson. I'm sure there were others on ESPN and ShoBox (Bundrage beating Molina on ESPN is one).

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story though.

[al-Xander]

If reports are true and he is spending 20-25 million to buy airtime, I would assume...

According to Duva, Haymon is offering NBC around $20 million for around 24 fight dates, with at least four of those dates potentially being slated for prime time on regular NBC and one coming the week after the Super Bowl."

$20 million for 24 fight dates is cheap. It's less than one million dollars per date. Donald Trump, who loves to be on TV, would be on it every week if it's this cheap.

[George Orwell]

no ones gonna watch, its basically like FNF, no ones gonna care.