Comments Thread For: Showtime Sports VP Explains Mayweather/SHO Deal

[HAY-B]

You all are looking at this deal solely based on immediate revenue streams but that's not where Showtime makes the lionshare of it's money. Sho makes it money by owing the rights to rebroadcast and license any and all rebroadcast , partial and full forever. Also Showtime makes a ton of money off people that subscribe to Showtime just for the weekend after the fight to see the initial rebroadcast.when companies like hbo Showtime etc make deals they base how much the stand to recoup over a lifetime not what they stand to gain immediately. Only broke mofo's focus on the here and now and not the future. 50 years from now Showtime will still be making money off Floyd's six fights. Showtime didn't lose anything

[AddiX]

You all are looking at this deal solely based on immediate revenue streams but that's not where Showtime makes the lionshare of it's money. Sho makes it money by owing the rights to rebroadcast and license any and all rebroadcast , partial and full forever. Also Showtime makes a ton of money off people that subscribe to Showtime just for the weekend after the fight to see the initial rebroadcast.when companies like hbo Showtime etc make deals they base how much the stand to recoup over a lifetime not what they stand to gain immediately. Only broke mofo's focus on the here and now and not the future. 50 years from now Showtime will still be making money off Floyd's six fights. Showtime didn't lose anything

Mother ****er ain't nobody trying to re-watch a ****ing Floyd fight.

Lmao at thinking Showtime gonna make bank 50 years from now off the Mayweather-Berto anniversary.

**** I can't wait for you ratchet Floyd fans to leave this sport.

[QballLobo]

Wan't Espinoza quoted as saying in order for a Floyd fight to be profitable it has to do 1.2 million plus PPV buys?
4 out of the 6 fights did well below that and the Canelo fight wasn't that much a boon for Showtime.The Pacquiao fight was such a different deal and it seems the fighters and cable companies really came out ahead, not so much for Showtime or HBO.
We will never know the real numbers but unlike most PPV fights Jr.'s guarantee means it really has to do big numbers for it to be a real profit for Showtime. I doubt they made big money and if they did it to revitalize their boxing business it didn't really work now that Hayman is taking all of his guys to PBC.

[HAY-B]

Mother ****er ain't nobody trying to re-watch a ****ing Floyd fight.

Lmao at thinking Showtime gonna make bank 50 years from now off the Mayweather-Berto anniversary.

**** I can't wait for you ratchet Floyd fans to leave this sport.

You're the idiot and most likely a broke one at that. When espn classic or Fox sports wants to 're air Floyd canelo or any one of those six fights from Floyd deal they have to pay Showtime a license fee and I'm sure it will be a handsome fee each time they want to air it. Just because you May not want to watch it does not mean a network does not want to air it. Since Showtime owns the broadcast they will earn revenue on that broadcast as long as they own the rights. Point blank period. Learn the business of sports and entertainment before talking ish. You'll save yourself the embarrassment of looking like a fool!
And Motherfxcker I'm a boxing fan first before I'm a fan of any particular fighter !

[IMDAZED]

Wan't Espinoza quoted as saying in order for a Floyd fight to be profitable it has to do 1.2 million plus PPV buys?
4 out of the 6 fights did well below that and the Canelo fight wasn't that much a boon for Showtime.The Pacquiao fight was such a different deal and it seems the fighters and cable companies really came out ahead, not so much for Showtime or HBO.
We will never know the real numbers but unlike most PPV fights Jr.'s guarantee means it really has to do big numbers for it to be a real profit for Showtime. I doubt they made big money and if they did it to revitalize their boxing business it didn't really work now that Hayman is taking all of his guys to PBC.

No, sounds like something someone on here said.

[LOWBLOW_CHAMP]

floyd wins, while his haters sit at home staring at the laptop and the wall lol floyd is gone so floyd haters be gone!! time to move on

[QballLobo]

No, sounds like something someone on here said.

I looked up the quotes, both Espinoza and Shaefer said before the Guerrero fight that anything less than 1.2 million would be a disappointment and then when the figures turned out to be less than that they backed off those statements.

[IMDAZED]

I looked up the quotes, both Espinoza and Shaefer said before the Guerrero fight that anything less than 1.2 million would be a disappointment and then when the figures turned out to be less than that they backed off those statements.

That's not what you said though.