How Oscar Revived GBP After Being Buried

[El-blanco]

In order to build and sustain the paychecks the fighters must sell themselves and apparently that hasnt been happening. Not fault of PBC.

I have said it many times that there just isnt enough talent in boxing to sustain great match after great match or even decent match after one another.

These fighters are building cause no one knows who they are.

Yeah boxing just isn't a huge sport no matter what people on here try to tell me. There's only so many viewers.

[Bardock]

He was butthurt tho. Smh @your Javi-esque attempt at an exposure

fck off lol

[Pigeons]

No wonder this sport is dead. Matthysse-Postol is one of the 3 best fights out there today? No one gives a **** about that fight.

[al-Xander]

Haymon's business model is unsustainable. Paying his top fighters $1 million for fighting nobodies is just downright crazy. Of course, they will want $5 million when they're asked to fight a tougher opponent. What do you expect? Where will the money come from? Probably the main reason why meaningful fights are hard to come by in the Haymon side of the pond.

[Mitchell Kane]

No wonder this sport is dead. Matthysse-Postol is one of the 3 best fights out there today? No one gives a **** about that fight.

Mattysse-Postol is a very good match-up.

But fine, leave that fight out, and just go back and use Mattysse-Provodnikov instead.

Matthysse-Provodnikov, Cotto-Canelo and Golovkin-Lemieux are absolutely three of the most anticipated fights of the year.

[bluebeam]

Those are his only 3 fighters that tv wants.

Oscar has no choice but to put them in against whoever hbo tells him too

[North Star]

Yeah boxing just isn't a huge sport no matter what people on here try to tell me. There's only so many viewers.

I honestly think the culture of the US prefers team centered sports. I know they attempted this with the World Series of Boxing program, but it didn't have the right feel and format.

I think boxing could use a "team" type of format, but it would have to be promotional stables as the "team". Events could be set up between promoters to clash and be billed as (for example) Team Top Rank vs Team Golden Boy. There should be a regular season and an off season. The off season could be used to recruit talent and trade players (fighters). Giving American casual fans a team to root for could create the culture. There would have to be some type of point system during these events for a winning/losing record to be maintained, with the top teams meeting at the end of the season for a real "Super Bowl of boxing".

But for this to work, I think promoters would have to be limited to a certain number of fighters per division, to ensure that there aren't in-house fights after in-house fights that we tend to get with this open market.

Granted, there needs to be a division within the stable, like minor leage and major league, so that the new pro fighters can build their resume. It would have to also be understood that your stable mates are your team, and that everyone is all in together.

I don't know, I think something like this could work if done right. It would be cool to see fighters get traded to other promoters or become free agents like in other team sports during an off season.

[bluebeam]

Yeah boxing just isn't a huge sport no matter what people on here try to tell me. There's only so many viewers.

Yet one man made Alex Rodriguez whole contract in 1 night

[bluebeam]

I honestly think the culture of the US prefers team centered sports. I know they attempted this with the World Series of Boxing program, but it didn't have the right feel and format.

I think boxing could use a "team" type of format, but it would have to be promotional stables as the "team". Events could be set up between promoters to clash and be billed as (for example) Team Top Rank vs Team Golden Boy. There should be a regular season and an off season. The off season could be used to recruit talent and trade players (fighters). Giving American casual fans a team to root for could create the culture.

But for this to work, I think promoters would have to be limited to a certain number of fighters per division, to ensure that there aren't in-house fights after in-house fights that we tend to get with this open market.

Granted, there needs to be a division within the stable, like minor leage and major league, so that the new pro fighters can build their resume. It would have to also be understood that your stable mates are your team, and that everyone is all in together.

I don't know, I think something like this could work if done right. It would be cool to see fighters get traded to other promoters or become free agents like in other team sports during an off season.

No thank you. Boxing isn't a team sport

Boxing is fine just the way it is.

[Aztekkas]

Those are his only 3 fighters that tv wants.

Oscar has no choice but to put them in against whoever hbo tells him too

You forgot the fact that GBP built up most of Haymon's stable and is now rebuilding and reconstructing a new stable with young and up and coming prospects. GBP knows how to build fighters, they know how to put on good fights and I'm sure they'll be around for quite some time.

How many fighters has Haymon produced from scratch? Perhaps GBP is in a rough spot as of right now in terms of talent, but I'm sure a few of their up and comers will be built up to something worthwhile.