Comments Thread For: Golden Boy, Fox Sports 1 Pact Coming To an End?

[Scipio2009]

chickens are coming home to roost

Richard Schaefer, the man that the Golden Boy ran out of the business (who was the nuts-and-bolts guy who actually built Golden Boy into its' position) was the one who had the relationship to lock-in the original FS1 deal, in addition to bringing AEG into the fold and having financial backers work with the company.

With Schaefer no longer in the mix, like most of the other parties, FS1 looked at the relationship and decided that they no longer wanted to be in business with Oscar De La Hoya and his Golden Boy Promotions.

Haymon has NBC/NBCSN, Showtime/CBS, ESPN/ABC, Sp1keTV, and BounceTV(not sure of the channel's reach) all under his banner; with UFC's deal with Fox/FS1, I doubt that they jump headlong into business with Haymon (monthly PBC shows on Sp1ke, a subsidiary of Viacom, who happen to be the owners of BellatorMMA, in addition to NBCSN and its' support of World Series of Fighting MMA, likely throws cold water on that move). Fox Sports may just end up getting out of boxing entirely.

Oscar and his company, come the summer, will now be left with hoping that HBO opens up its' boxing budget, to finance enough shows to provide for Top Rank Inc, the marquee fights from K2(Klitshko, Golovkin) and Main Events(Kovalev), and still have enough for him to sc**** a company together on.

checkmate

[GRIP STACCIN]

haymon taking those dates

[The Champions]

The difference is the Predictable Boring Crap series PAYS for time slots. GPB GETS paid for their shows. Now Oscar has his own TV outlet like a true gangster. When Haymon runs out of embezzled funds, he will come to Oscar for bail money and get denied.

I bet you cross dress just like your vato Oscar.

Haymon can buy a fleet of Oscar De La Hoyas

[Pigeons]

The ratings were never very good for Golden Boy Live. Even when they had Haymon fighters at the very beginning - Ortiz vs. Collazo which was the debut only got 150,000 viewers. That's about the same as Throne Boxing is getting on FS1 so I doubt that PBC will fare much better.

No, moron. Golden Boy Live premiered in August 2013. Ortiz-Collazo happened in January 2014 and snagged the best rating in the show's (short) history, ~350K viewers.

Get your facts straight, loser.

[Scipio2009]

PBC definitely needs a platform like FS1 to develop some of their prospects. Spence has been the only one given that opportunity thus far

in due time.

Tony Harrison is the co-feature for the first PBC on ESPN card, the co-feature for the Khan-Algieri card is another young guy, and the June Sunday card is basically supposed to feature prospects. Add that these PBC cards seem to be 10+ bouts per show, and prospects are getting fights off of TV.

would wait for the BounceTV/NBCSN cards if you want to see only the prospects.

[R_Walken]

Not going to lie

The bitter Oscar hater in me absolutely loves this news

[kombayn]

I think Golden Boy will move to truTV. I have a feeling that truTV will eventually rebrand to Bleacher Report TV. That's my best guess.

[Gucci]

Oscar is Haymon's *****.

how when oscar is getting paid to show his fights when haymon is paying to show fights?

lol

[kombayn]

I think Golden Boy will move to truTV. I have a feeling that truTV will eventually rebrand to Bleacher Report TV. That's my best guess.

[Cinci Champ]

good everyone talks **** about haymon cards but everyone gives oscar a pass on his regular cable cards. im still going to reserve my judgement but i think by the fall pbc will really be getting going. I mean anyone whos looking at it without hate realized pbc is giving us way more boxing to watch and the cards have actually been pretty good. not many crazy mismatches like we all expected. Dont get me wrong there has been fighters heavily favored but that happens no matter what. The dirrel degale fight was very entertaining. we got broner porter which is a great fight we got khan algeri tho their styles dont really seem to bring a brawl i still dont think people are being fair when it comes to pbc. all this means is no more pointless oscar cards where his prospects fight 6 rounders Plus how can they complain its a monopoly when no one is keeping them from buying airtime as well i dont know just seems gbp is beyond reaching on their lawsuit