Comments Thread For: Richard Schaefer is "Getting The Itch" To Come Back

[boxinghead530]

Mmm really interesting. I wasn't expecting all the praise for HBO from Richard. He basically said that 2015 has belonged to them and that they have the best P4P fighters on their channel. He did mention PBC but he was just being politically correct saying that it's still on it's early stages.

Nice to see Richard not being bias..

Ken Hershman did step down as boss of HBO boxing. Maybe that's where Schaefer is headed?

[Larry the boss]

That "Itch" is just crabs he ****** a hooker behind Oscar or Haymon

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Do you care ?

Go away, no one likes you on here weirdo. You're annoying and lame.

[Larry the boss]

Boxing doesn't need ****ie.....snake in the grass.

watch your mouth son

[Fetta]

that "itch" is just crabs he ****** a hooker behind oscar or haymon

richard ****** the hooker while oscar stole her clothes. Glad they working together again

[bigdunny1]

Ken Hershman did step down as boss of HBO boxing. Maybe that's where Schaefer is headed?

Another angle for why I can never see HBO hiring Schaefer is who is right now the biggest cash cow for HBO? Canelo. You could argue Pacman but he's got only 1 more fight left. Canelo is signed to Oscar and Golden Boy. HBO has a great relationship with Golden Boy right now. Why would you screw all that up and hire the man who Oscar forced out and sued and hates like poison? Second biggest enemy for Schaefer is probably Bob Arum who HBO works closely with. HBO banned Haymon AND Golden Boy when it was run by Schaefer for a reason. Once Oscar pushed Schaefer out and regained control of his company HBO welcomed Golden Boy back with open arms. No chance HBO hires Schaefer.

[SkillspayBills]

I honestly didn't think about that, HBO have the 10 best P4P fighters apart from Rigo and Rigo is fighting on the Cotto-Canelo undercard.

That is mad, I think Haymon is doing interesting things but odd how he hasn't managed to (since Floyd retired) nick one of those fighters.

Kind of boggles my mind lol. How does Haymon have 200 some off fighters....but none of the 10 best?

[imperial1]

richard ****** the hooker while oscar stole her clothes. Glad they working together again

[Fetta]

Kind of boggles my mind lol. How does Haymon have 200 some off fighters....but none of the 10 best?

IMAGINE YOU HAVE a baseball team (9 players) but you have 2 superstars. Wouldnt you concentrate and put a majority your resources into keeping those 2 as opposed to the rest? Yes you do and thats why. But without other stars around them they can only go so far

[Scipio2009]

I honestly didn't think about that, HBO have the 10 best P4P fighters apart from Rigo and Rigo is fighting on the Cotto-Canelo undercard.

That is mad, I think Haymon is doing interesting things but odd how he hasn't managed to (since Floyd retired) nick one of those fighters.

Haymon has near all of the sport's top prospects/contenders/future stars under his umbrella. Come Christmas 2016, Pacquiao will be gone, Cotto would likely be gone as well, Kovalev/Ward/Golovkin would've had their shakeout (I think Ward clears the field), a 40-year old Wladimir Klitschko would've likely have had to face down Tyson Fury, Wilder/Povetkin winner, and possibly Anthony Joshua, Gonzalez-Estrada II would've happened, "Bud" Crawford would have to be ready for the Postol-Imam winner(i think Imam beats Postol), and (WBO belt, aside) Timothy Bradley Jr and "Canelo" Alvarez would've spent another year, toiling on the lesser side of the fence for fights at 147/154 [6 of the 8 belts at those weights seem to be comfortably within the Haymon universe at the moment].

Andre Ward will likely stand as the sport's best fighter [HBO only locking Ward up long enough to fight Sergey Kovalev, to me, is a Jay-Z&J-Prince/Haymon/Espinoza sitdown away from being a major mistake], and Roman Gonzalez will likely also be high on that list; under that, Thurman/Porter/Garcia/Brook/Khan/Spence/etc will all be battling for recognition, Degale/Jack/Abraham/Chudinov/Murray/ChavezJr will be battling likewise, the young lions at 154 (Andrade/Charlo/Charlo/JRock/Trout/etc) will be battling, the UK will play home to the Frampton/Quigg/McDonnell battle at 122, Selby/LSC/RusselJr/Cuellar will likely mix things up at 126, and a host of top prospects from those 2012 Olympics (Spence Jr, Luke Campbell, etc) will dare to be great.

Come 2017 (by the sheer volume of talent that Haymon is coming to the table with), HBO dominating the p4p list is unlikely to still be the case.