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

[thecomedian2]

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

except Floyd its the PPV king(what was manny last ppv numbers?) and the cash cow..! many cant even do 500k by himself, Floyd vs ODLH did 2.4k Floyd vs Canelo did over 2k, Floyd vs Cotto did 1.5k, when was the last time Manny cracked 1.5k?

Floyd is with SHOW TIME, Show time is the Side A, floyd vs manny will do close to 3k on Show Time

[Divine Hammer]

BS. Obviously whichever networks get the replay rights will make way more money. Like the article said, both networks agreed to have the winners channel have the replay rights when it was Lewis and Tyson. Obviously HBO was willing to agree to that since Lewis was such a heavy favorite over Tyson. But now they are not willing to agree to those terms because Floyd is the favorite, meaning showtime stands to make a huge profit over HBO.

Stop trying to spin everything into Floyd not wanting the fight. I'm sure Espinoza and the people who made up Mayweather's contract also want the fight only on showtime which is why Floyd said what he said.

no you are wrong. those were different times when lewis and tyson fought and under completely different management and leadership. that is clearly poor business practice to gamble like that and the new people in charge know this (even if they believe pac has a very good chance of winning they know in boxing anything can happen). HBO wants to make guaranteed the most money they can from this huge event and i say absolutely good for them they have that right.

floyd is once again putting up roadblocks and you floyd rejects won't admit it. he, espinoza and al hyamon never wanted the fight. this is all just them trying to save face and say that at least they tried but they never tried to begin with.

WAKE UP!

[RyanjLarose]

except Floyd its the PPV king(what was manny last ppv numbers?) and the cash cow..! many cant even do 500k by himself, Floyd vs ODLH did 2.4k Floyd vs Canelo did over 2k, Floyd vs Cotto did 1.5k, when was the last time Manny cracked 1.5k?

Floyd is with SHOW TIME, Show time is the Side A, floyd vs manny will do close to 3k on Show Time

Manny cant even crack 1500 buys, what a bum hype job..........

[speedbreaker]

its funny how floyd has talked about how he doesnt wanna do business with bob arum but yet the fight is being negotiated! that bob arum excuse was bs all along!

[thecomedian2]

Manny cant even crack 1500 buys, what a bum hype job..........

yeah he cant do that with top names like Marquez/cotto/Bradley/ODLH thats why he could not even break 500k buys last time around, he is side B on this fight

[jjsmyth87]

Manny cant even crack 1500 buys, what a bum hype job..........

Says the guy with a serial rapist as a profile picture. Floyd is a convicted woman beater who has to pay women to hang out with him and bill cisby is a huge serial rapist. Hmm wonder how you interact with women?

[El-blanco]

yeah he cant do that with top names like Marquez/cotto/Bradley/ODLH thats why he could not even break 500k buys last time around, he is side B on this fight

Manny cant even crack 1500 buys, what a bum hype job..........

Haha he still didnt get it

[jjsmyth87]

The A-side fights on Showtime and Showtime has delivered the top 4 PPV events over the last two years, so what's your point? And, if push comes to shove, Mayweather-Cotto 2 is a far bigger legacy fight, and far more financially viable to Cotto, than Cotto-Alvarez. [If Cotto makes it another competitive fight with Floyd, Oscar would still be looking to make the fight anyway]

HBO, according to the rumors, isn't willing to gamble on Pacquiao like they 'gambled' on Lennox Lewis (even they don't think Pacquiao has a chance) so they need to just sit down somewhere.

Cotto would make alot more money as a side to canelo than be would making a paltry 8 million to fight mayweather. If mayweather ducks which it seems you are hoping he does for whatever reason, there will be a huge backlash and nobody will watch that fight. He is backed into a corner. As to your othr theory it would seem to me that HBO wants it shown on both networks how badly Manny schools mayweather, so more people will tune into his next fights. If they thought he was going to lose why would they want that shown on both networks? Does that make any sense?

[Bep3373]

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

But the did trip ppv numbers ...so HBO DONT **** THUS UP

[Johnwoo8686]

no you are wrong. those were different times when lewis and tyson fought and under completely different management and leadership. that is clearly poor business practice to gamble like that and the new people in charge know this (even if they believe pac has a very good chance of winning they know in boxing anything can happen). HBO wants to make guaranteed the most money they can from this huge event and i say absolutely good for them they have that right.

floyd is once again putting up roadblocks and you floyd rejects won't admit it. he, espinoza and al hyamon never wanted the fight. this is all just them trying to save face and say that at least they tried but they never tried to begin with.

WAKE UP!

You need to wake up. First you admit that HBO won't agree to the terms of the Lewis-Tyson fight because they want to make as much money a possible then you say it's Floyd and Espinoza holding up the fight? Which one is it my man? You're trying to have it both ways. The people around Floyd have stated he wants the fight so stop with that B.S.

Obviously HBO doesn't have faith in their fighter because if they did all this network stuff would be resolved by now. HBO took the gamble when it came to Lennox Lewis but won't do so when it comes to Manny Pacquiao. Why? Because they know he'll likely lose.