Comments Thread For: CBS Sports/PBC Deal Revealed: Stevenson-Bika, More

[SlySlickSmooth]

Jay Z needs to start making moves too

[AgainstTheRopes]

Why is LSC not ffighting Rigo? Al Haymon.
Why is Quillin not fighting GGG? Al Haymon.
Why didn't Adonis fight Kovalev? Al Haymon.
Why is Abner Mares fighting nobodies? Al Haymon.
Shall I continue?

Ill give you that. Those are 4 of over 150+ fighters and no one said it was perfect. Its still a work in progress but there is enough already in place to be excited about.

[junior gong]

Aducknis v Sakio friggin Bika????

[STEELHEAD]

NEW YORK – CBS Sports and SHOWTIME Sports® have announced a multi-year joint venture to present live boxing on the CBS Television Network—the first of up to eight live events in 2015 will premiere on Saturday, April 4 at 3 p.m. ET on CBS. Premier Boxing Champions on CBS will air in conjunction with marquee SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING events as part of a partnership that will cross-promote the live programs across multiple platforms.

The first six weeks to begin this venture will feature two of the biggest names in the sport—Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., and Adonis Stevenson—and bookend this year’s most anticipated boxing event, the SHOWTIME PPV® presentation of the undisputed pound-for-pound champion Floyd Mayweather.
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this is good news. as long as they don't load up the cards with lacky hvwt division boxers.

[The Big Dunn]

It's not because it's Haymon. It's because he puts on raggedy fights.

He does, or did the networks and promoters do it? They didn't have to air those fights.

So far tis year, other than LSC/Rigo-which the most posters placed blame on Rigo for the fight not happening- the fights he has done and planned are quality fights.

At what point do you base 2015 on 2015?

[Mitchell Kane]

It is interesting to note that while all these time buys being announced, the biggest name in Haymon's stable to have a fight announced during this time is Chavez Jr., and he's fighting on Showtime.

Much of what the CBS deal looks to be about is selling the Mayweather pay per view and publicizing the Showtime boxing brand.

Saturday afternoon fight cards aren't exactly a game-changer.

[Dadog27]

This is a good look for boxing

[LA_2_Vegas]

Wow, this is some coup Haymon is pulling off.

[PulpFriction]

You really have to applaud Haymon. Yeah he might put some bullshi.t matchups throughout but he is bringing a ton of fights and as a fan ya gotta love it.

[Mitchell Kane]

Top Rank certainly has a good enough stable of prospects to do something similar although at a smaller scale. Guys like Jessie Magdaleno, Felix Verdejo, and Jose Ramirez are already bigger draws than most Haymon fighters. But instead they choose to sit them and their HBO stars out until the 2nd quarter of 2015 and allow the Haymon hype machine to take over,drown them out, and make them look like an irrelevant entity.

It's funny that some people say that promoters are obsolete, and yet you see Jose Ramirez draw 10,000 fans in Fresno or Terance Crawford draw 11,000 in Omaha, or the crowds that Miguel Cotto draws when he fights in New York in June around the Puerto Rican Day Parade, or how Zou Shiming has basically become the house fighter at the Venetian in Macau.

There's still a place for promoters in boxing.

Haymon lives on the TV side of boxing.

Much of his success has been the way he has gotten money and dates from HBO and SHO, and the way he manipulated GBP, not for building stars that can sell tickets and pay per views.

People are just assuming that this PBC will produce those kinds of stars because the events are on televison...but Haymon has been getting his fighters on TV for years, and it hasn't translated into stardom for many of his fighters.

We'll see how much that changes now that NBC and CBS and ESPN are also involved.