Comments Thread For: James DeGale Signs Advisory Pact With Al Haymon

[BWC]

It is allegedly another Promoter who is close to doing like Yvon Michel recently did and have all of his fighters add Haymon as an Advisor so that all of their fighters can fight on PBC and this Promoter has a pretty good Roster

So I don't know WTF Haymon plan is but he will have a Roster soon that will big enough to have boxing on every Saturday if he so chooses

I think in 2-3 years just about every major fighter will be affiliated w Haymon in some way. Whether manager/advisor/ something. Everyone is going to want access to the PBC platform. I mean want to be famous, maybe even a household name, and make more money than you can anywhere else? Sign with Al...

[Scipio2009]

eddie hearn would do himself a favor getting promo licenses in the state..but then again he could put on degale and frampton cards in the UK with great success..but is the pbc team going to travel?? or is haymon stepping outside of pbc himself??

andre dirrell part 2 should happen now

Haymon has the strong relationship with Showtime, so traveling isn't really the issue. If the money is massively bigger in the UK, as it is with a lot of these matchups, the fights will happen on Sky Sports with the broadcasts also aired on Showtime.

If it's a stay busy fight with limited interest in the UK, or a fight where the opponent is American/Canadian/Mexican with some leverage to lean on, the fight comes stateside, with the broadcast also aired on Sky Sports.

Chavez Jr and Lucian Bute are both big enough stars, with somewhat limited cache in the UK, that those would be fights that would likely happen stateside on PBC.

[BWC]

Haymon has the strong relationship with Showtime, so traveling isn't really the issue. If the money is massively bigger in the UK, as it is with a lot of these matchups, the fights will happen on Sky Sports with the broadcasts also aired on Showtime.

If it's a stay busy fight with limited interest in the UK, or a fight where the opponent is American/Canadian/Mexican with some leverage to lean on, the fight comes stateside, with the broadcast also aired on Sky Sports.

Chavez Jr and Lucian Bute are both big enough stars, with somewhat limited cache in the UK, that those would be fights that would likely happen stateside on PBC.

Hearn and Haymon have an excellent relationship. They ill probably be having joint cards soon.

[BWC]

Lol. Ever learn how monopolies work? While Haymon's not quite a monopoly yet, he's vastly reduced options for fighters should they want to leave. TR, ME, GB only have so many tv options these days. Oh yeah, his contract are for 9 years, so if you want better terms tough.

Capitalism baby. Everyone said Haymon was a crazy fool for trying this PBC thing. Well he'll laugh all the way to the bank as he's signing all your favorite fighters..

[Scipio2009]

Al Haymon is like this mystical figure and commands a cult following of fighters. It's really remarkable how so many fighters are attracted to this man. What does he do that so ****ing great?

Takes a smaller cut than nearly every other manager (after having already made his own fortune in the concert promoting business), pays better than pretty much everyone else, and puts his fighters onto the game with knowledge (offers advice to ways in which they can better invest their money in hard assets and, most importantly, letting them and their team in on all the different levers and revenues that are to come on the fight, informing them for future talks).

Not really knocking the guy in this post, but Manny Pacquiao will likely be fighting well beyond when he was supposed to hang up the gloves, and will likely end up with nothing in the bank to live on.

Without someone in his life (doesn't even have to be Haymon), at least someone with smarts, who backs him completely, Pacquiao is now facing what he's facing (massive potential tax liability for not properly filing records, still paying Top Rank a third of his purse, no real understanding of the actual money being brought in on his events, etc).

Done differently, though likely not Mayweather's pot of money, Pacquiao could've been sitting pretty, with no tax obligations hanging over his head, $150m-$200m in the bank, and a budding empire in his home country (putting the future of Filipino boxing on his back, a successful promotional company in the Philippines, etc) to actually launch his presidential ambitions from.

[AP♠]

Allah AL HAYMON. #1 PBC supporter here

[Scipio2009]

Hearn and Haymon have an excellent relationship. They ill probably be having joint cards soon.

People will still laugh, but I still think that Floyd's September fight ends up being Mayweather(c) vs Kell Brook(c) for the undisputed welterweight championship of the world [WBO has only been an sanctioning organization since 1988, about as long as the IBO; before that point, WBC/WBA/IBF was the unified championship. In addition, Floyd just won their championship anyway] on PPV, with a split-site PPV hailing from the O2 Arena in London.

Depending on how things get timed, Showtime would broadcast the a doubleheader of the ttop two fight on the UK PPV as their lead-in to Mayweather's PPV (with Sky Box Office carrying the full London show on PPV, before following that up with the broadcast of the Mayweather card.

Not really much a historian on split-site events, but that would, in my mind, seem to be a first.

[Weebler I]

4:20 Hearn says DeGale is still contracted with Matchroom.

Reading between the lines, it seems like Hearn was blindsided by this move. If anyone knows otherwise post some info.



Says he thinks Froch will retire.

[Eastcoast]

Capitalism baby. Everyone said Haymon was a crazy fool for trying this PBC thing. Well he'll laugh all the way to the bank as he's signing all your favorite fighters..

Funny you mention capitalism. Haymon's laughing all the way to the bank with his investors money, not money earned. Big difference. The money he's paying out is far greater than the money he's bringing in = failed business.

[Eastcoast]

4:20 Hearn says DeGale is still contracted with Matchroom.

Reading between the lines, it seems like Hearn was blindsided by this move. If anyone knows otherwise post some info.



Says he thinks Froch will retire.

Exactly my thoughts when I seen that. Sounds like he hasn't even spoke with DeGale yet, he's not sure what it entails. I wonder if this means DeGale is off the September card?