NBC Sports is doing great match making

[fightmuseumlv]

I've been very impressed with the matchmaking that NBC has done for their new prime time boxing. Why couldn't HBO, Showtime or ESPN get these matchups?

[ea22]

I disagree, the only good matchup so far has been Thurman v. Guerrero, and on the horizon I only see Lee v. Quillin, Garcia v. Peterson has lost its prestige since Garcia's refusal to rematch and beat Herrera.

[ostinato]

What are the cards coming up after garcia/peterson and quillin/lee? I honestly don't even know what the rest of their year looks like.

Great matchmaking is Matthysse/Provodnikov

[ea22]

What are the cards coming up after garcia/peterson and quillin/lee? I honestly don't even know what the rest of their year looks like.

Great matchmaking is Matthysse/Provodnikov

This and great matchmaking is competitive fights, fights were both fighters have a shot at winning, you know unlike Adonis v. Bika. Mathysse v. Provodnikov is great matchmaking because there is guaranteed action and both guys have a shot at winning.

[bigjavi973]

"great machmaking"?... you mean the fights that we coulda probably saw last year?

[El-blanco]

Did you not just see pascal kovalev?

[Mitchell Kane]

I've been very impressed with the matchmaking that NBC has done for their new prime time boxing. Why couldn't HBO, Showtime or ESPN get these matchups?

It's not NBC, it's Haymon doing the match-making.

Haymon wasn't going to start the PBC off with bad cards.

They paid out about $5 million for the first fight card.

We'll see whether the money and the match-making can/will continue like that for the length of the deal or further.

[Bababoey970]

Most of the PBC fights already have a winner before the bell ring so idk about the so called great match making. Most of the fights made so far have just been show case fights for Haymons preferred fighters.

[wiz1030]

It's not NBC, it's Haymon doing the match-making.

Haymon wasn't going to start the PBC off with bad cards.

They paid out about $5 million for the first fight card.

We'll see whether the money and the match-making can/will continue like that for the length of the deal or further.

That $5 million might was just the purses. Combined with the price of the time slot he had to put on some half way interesting match ups at least.

[PK3434]

I don't like the matchmaking very much but that can be said about boxing in general. But every match so far besides Lopez vs berto has clearly been Guy Al wants to win vs Guy Al would prefer not to win.