Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Pacquiao Talks Stalled By Network Battle

[MDPopescu]

... "Hopes die last", they say...
... The problem is that ******ity is immortal.

[HarvardBlue]

I thought the only thing holding up this fight was Mayweather being a ducking coward.

[$mannyFresh]

The winning fighter's network should be the one that gets to televise the tape delayed broadcast.

HBO needs to step back and stop blocking the fight.

HBO was OK with this arrangement when they last worked together and they had the favorite...

[mathed]

Showtime has no pull, they had one out of the top 20 most viewed fights this year, HBO had the rest. But, this article does not sound like it's network dispute, sounds like Floyd is stalling and they are using the networks as the reason. The simple solution is for both to have a re-air the week after. HBO has many more viewers than Showtime does and all of their fights are watched by more people.

You have Pac publicly calling Floyd out, saying he is cool with everything, sign the contract and Floyd is nowhere to be found having his people say that he is interested. No need for anything additional, Floyd is the one stalling here.

[hitking]

Whats there to debate? HBO had 14 of the top 15 most watched boxing fights last year and they can put on Cotto vs Canelo on May 2nd

SHO better not **** this up

Hmmmm. So HBO not wanting to agree to a precedent that's already been established. Based solely on them knowing that the likelihood is that their man, your monkey spank fuel, is gonna get his ass kicked. And somewhere your lil mutant brain, you find a way to blame SHO, in turn blaming Floyd. You are one pathetic, clown ass muthaf.ucka.

[Derranged]

I give up. They might as well fight a TBA. Someone message me when the fight gets made. I'm not bothering with this crap anymore.

[mathed]

They should both be able to replay the show the very next week. Both Networks should work togethr and make this fight happen.

Exactly.......HBO makes money, Showtime makes money. Each network has their own network monthly service fees so the amount of people that one network has watching the next week has zip to do with the other network. It comes down to greed, one network wants to freeze out the next one out so they get 100% of the benefits, so ******.

[Dr Rumack]

Showtime has no pull, they had one out of the top 20 most viewed fights this year, HBO had the rest. But, this article does not sound like it's network dispute, sounds like Floyd is stalling and they are using the networks as the reason. The simple solution is for both to have a re-air the week after. HBO has many more viewers than Showtime does and all of their fights are watched by more people.

You have Pac publicly calling Floyd out, saying he is cool with everything, sign the contract and Floyd is nowhere to be found having his people say that he is interested. No need for anything additional, Floyd is the one stalling here.

Thankfully I haven't been following this latest round of 'negotiations' too closely, but it seems like the familiar pattern of Mayweather's teams throwing up obstacles is continuing. It doesn't seem to matter what Pacquiao agrees to, Floyd will always find another problem.

Anyway, better to ignore all this shit. Call us when the fight is done.

[Grimmer]

I wouldn't worry too much. I can't see this being the reason why the fight doesn't happen.

It'll get sorted.

[IMDAZED]

Thankfully I haven't been following this latest round of 'negotiations' too closely, but it seems like the familiar pattern of Mayweather's teams throwing up obstacles is continuing. It doesn't seem to matter what Pacquiao agrees to, Floyd will always find another problem.

Anyway, better to ignore all this shit. Call us when the fight is done.

With this sort of analysis it's probably best you keep your head in the sand.