HBO rejects Ward/Oosthuizen

[bluebeam]

Makes you wonder who HBO would accept for a tune-up if they've turned Periban and Oosthuizen down. Maybe they don't want a tune-up on their channel.

All they do is show tuneup's.

Every Golovkin fight is a tune up.
Cotto vs rodriguez.
Bradley vs Chaves

Just too name a few

[Evil Abed]

They'll accept Willie Munson Jr doe

.......Who?

[HeroBando]

Thomas Oostuzien is 24-0, has fought a decent stretch of opponents, is ranked in the top 15 of the WBC/WBA and WBO, and had campained at 168, before his extended layoff and returning as a fleshy fighter at 175, yet HBO is refusing him as an opponent for Ward.

http://boksburgadvertiser.co.za/225490/weigh-in-completed-all-set-for-stand-and-deliver/

http://www.*********.com/rankings-2
http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hum...0738&cat=boxer

All the while, HBO has had no problem airing Golovkin's last 6 fights, even when they were against woefully overmatched opposition.

If 'Tommy Gun' isn't a worthy fight after Ward's been out of the ring for 18 months, who is?

Since first getting on HBO GGG has beaten 6 Ring ranked top tenners, all for far less than Ward demands for a tuneup.

Tommy is OK for a tuneup but not at 168 where he's a corpse, and not for the money being asked for

[Jim Jeffries]

Desperation at its finest. Combining live + reruns.

Golovkin-Proksa, Rosado, Geale, Murray all failed to reach 1M during their live airing. That's 4 of his 7 HBO fights.

None of which changes the fact that the Murray fight did extremely well for an afternoon showing. GGG's popularity is snowballing. Probably because he doesn't stink up the joint when he fights, like a certain inactive SMW.

[Eastcoast]

lol for a second there I thought you meant he said he'd rather watch Golovkin shadow box for 12 rounds than watch Ward

Do you think Andre Ward tries to hug his shadow?

[Scipio2009]

Middleweight titleholder Gennady Golovkin’s 13th defense and 19th knockout in a row on Saturday against Martin Murray in Monte Carlo averaged 862,000 viewers on HBO, according to Nielsen Media Research. The fight peaked at 938,000 viewers. The fight was from Europe and aired live in the afternoon and blew away HBO’s 2014 live offerings from Europe -- Carl Froch-George Groves II from England averaged 700,000 viewers and Wladimir Klitschko-Kubrat Pulev averaged 620,000 viewers. Combining the live airing with the prime-time replay, Golovkin-Murray averaged 1.433 million viewers.

http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/t...nnady-golovkin

No one knows who GGG is doe.

So, let me get this straight; when talking about Gennady Golovkin, when can freely use the HBO numbers plus the international/replay numbers, yet when talking about anyone else, you're restricted to only the domestic HBO numbers. lol

Imagine how big the total viewers for Ward-Rodriguez would've been if they were allowed to count replay numbers.

[El-blanco]

What a joke.

[Eastcoast]

So, let me get this straight; when talking about Gennady Golovkin, when can freely use the HBO numbers plus the international/replay numbers, yet when talking about anyone else, you're restricted to only the domestic HBO numbers. lol

Imagine how big the total viewers for Ward-Rodriguez would've been if they were allowed to count replay numbers.

Lol, how many people wanted to rewatch that fight?

[Barcham]

Lol, how many people wanted to rewatch that fight?

Ward's mother because she ran out of sleeping pills and needed something to make her drowsy at bedtime.

[Cuban Linx]

So, let me get this straight; when talking about Gennady Golovkin, when can freely use the HBO numbers plus the international/replay numbers, yet when talking about anyone else, you're restricted to only the domestic HBO numbers. lol

Imagine how big the total viewers for Ward-Rodriguez would've been if they were allowed to count replay numbers.

Well you can use it for the Murray fight. I don't know what other fights you're talking about though.