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  • MasterPlan
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    #1

    What's going on with Roc Nation Boxing?

    Last we heard a few weeks ago was Gary Shaw taking back his fighters. Haven't heard a peep from them since.

    Are they working on something? What about their Throne Boxing series on FS1? How many fighters are under the promotion? Just Andre Ward and Dusty Hernandez-Harrison? Any more?
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    Well they had a good thing with Gary shaw but as soon as he took his fighters that put them back to square 1 ..also with haymon making all these big moves I won't be surprised if other campany are holding off deals with roc nation to get a slice if the haymon pie. .........also Andre ward is a great piece to roc stable but only people in boxing (rank etc) hardcord fans know that ward the 2nd P4P fighter casual don't

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    • PK3434
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      #3
      They have a few problems:

      1. Bad timing: Just a horrible time to get into boxing for them..Haymon has all the tv dates on everything except HBO, who has a pretty full schedule full of established stars like GGG, Canelo, Kovalev, Cotto etc.

      2. No talent. They have Ward (who isn't really a draw) and thats it. They should focus on getting young prospects, maybe raiding the olympic teams of USA, Mexico, PR, Canada, and England in after the 2016 Olympics and build up for 5 years down the line would be a better idea for them.

      3. Other Promoters are pissed at them: Since they came into the game, they have built a lot of ill will by trying to steal fighter's from other promoters.

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      • Da Machine
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        #4
        Who cares. Hopefully they fail. Last thing we need is more conglomeration.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Rudiamonds
          Well they had a good thing with Gary shaw but as soon as he took his fighters that put them back to square 1 ..also with haymon making all these big moves I won't be surprised if other campany are holding off deals with roc nation to get a slice if the haymon pie. .........also Andre ward is a great piece to roc stable but only people in boxing (rank etc) hardcord fans know that ward the 2nd P4P fighter casual don't
          Wasn't Ward dropped from the p4p for inactivity ? If not he should be .

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          • Hougigo
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            #6
            They're trying to make an April fight, Ward is rumored.

            Looks like they don't know what they're doing.

            April's a pretty bad time. Literally every date taken by a major card that month, and evidently April 4th, the Afternoon card wth Stevenson, has Final 4 then or something lke that

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              #7
              They came into boxing too late

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              • Scipio2009
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                #8
                Originally posted by PK3434
                They have a few problems:

                1. Bad timing: Just a horrible time to get into boxing for them..Haymon has all the tv dates on everything except HBO, who has a pretty full schedule full of established stars like GGG, Canelo, Kovalev, Cotto etc.

                2. No talent. They have Ward (who isn't really a draw) and thats it. They should focus on getting young prospects, maybe raiding the olympic teams of USA, Mexico, PR, Canada, and England in after the 2016 Olympics and build up for 5 years down the line would be a better idea for them.

                3. Other Promoters are pissed at them: Since they came into the game, they have built a lot of ill will by trying to steal fighter's from other promoters.
                ^this exactly

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                • Cut Man
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Hougigo
                  They're trying to make an April fight, Ward is rumored.

                  Looks like they don't know what they're doing.

                  April's a pretty bad time. Literally every date taken by a major card that month, and evidently April 4th, the Afternoon card wth Stevenson, has Final 4 then or something lke that
                  With Haymon taking over boxing Rocnation need to sweeten the deal. Rihanna will have to open her legs

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                  • Hougigo
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by PK3434
                    They have a few problems:

                    1. Bad timing: Just a horrible time to get into boxing for them..Haymon has all the tv dates on everything except HBO, who has a pretty full schedule full of established stars like GGG, Canelo, Kovalev, Cotto etc.

                    2. No talent. They have Ward (who isn't really a draw) and thats it. They should focus on getting young prospects, maybe raiding the olympic teams of USA, Mexico, PR, Canada, and England in after the 2016 Olympics and build up for 5 years down the line would be a better idea for them.

                    3. Other Promoters are pissed at them: Since they came into the game, they have built a lot of ill will by trying to steal fighter's from other promoters.
                    Yup.

                    1. What's available right now? Some Mexican T.V channels like Unimas, FS1 (like their last fight) HBO and maybe Showtime, which is has no schedule whatsoever right now.

                    2. They literally have less than 10 people. Ward, Dusty, Some other guy, a Mexican prospect they just signed and some chinese fighters from Duva.....that's it. Which will be brought up more in the third

                    3. They spent too much time trying to grab other people's fighters and that just didn't work. They're trying to start out the gate running while tripping other people in a marathon race. They need to start building now instead of trying to take other people's fighters.
                    They better hope they don't have bad reps forever, because they're new to the game and could get shut out.....but then money talks

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