We should give credit to Al Haymon for bringing boxing back to regular TV

[Eff Pandas]

Problem is matchmaking. Too many of them I'd rather they show 2 prospects going at it than quillin vs that zarafa
Haymon needs to hire schafer

Idk who besides HBO is putting on better fights & HBO gots the top ten P4P basically so its to be expected.

And PBC is definitely putting on the most undefeated prospect vs prospect fights these days. Theres a lot of mfers catching their first L on PBC cards.

Dominic Breazeale gave Yasmany Consuegra his first L & is fighting undefeated Charles Martin next
Dejan Zlaticanin gave touted amateur Ivan Redkach his first L
McJoe Arroyo gave Arthur Villanueva his first L
Isiah Thomas gave Jordan Shimmell his first L
Juan Carlos Payano gave Broner's boy Raushee Warren his first L
Kamil Laszczyk gave Oscauris Frias his first L
Jarrett Hurd gave former TUF cast member Jeff Lentz & Frank Galarza their first L's
Eleider Alvarez gave Isidro Prieto his first L
Terrel Williams gave Prichard Colon his first L in their tragic fight
Sergey Lipinets gave Haskell Rhodes his first L
Samuel Figueroa gave Fernando Paliza & Javontae Starks their first L's

I predict PBC is gonna have a few bad mfers with no L's & some surprisingly tough mfers with 2 or 3 L's which nowadays gets you thrown in the trash with many fans.

[b00g13man]

Mods, please look into Freedom's account possibly being hacked.

I thought the same thing.

[Divine Hammer]

bunch of boring mismatches. PBC is pretty overall mediocre.

[Rip Chudd]

I give credit to Al for bringing boxing back to network tv, especially with so many fights taking place. He needs to step up the matchmaking though

[LomaUsykKlichko]

I only wish they had better match making, also I think arum will have to start working with haymon soon cuase almost none of his top fighters have opponents and had terrible year like Loma and crawford

[The Hammer]

I give credit to Al for bringing boxing back to network tv, especially with so many fights taking place. He needs to step up the matchmaking though

Matchmaking has been improving.

For example Dirrell-DeGale was good, and I'm looking forward to Bute-DeGale next week.

[The Hammer]

And Bute-Degale was another very good fight.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

all i see is a bunch of monkey ass with no talent getting the equivalent of a welfare check from haymon. all year only been like 2 good match up on paper and thats what counts, their was some good fights (surprises but it boxing that happens) but on paper was nothing but mismatches and gimmie fights for the home team player.

[Bram]

They definitely do deserve a massive amount of credit imo. It's rare now that we go a couple of weeks without their fights on somewhere and then when you combine that with HBO and a few other guys, just in terms of quantity, I can't remember a similar situation in 30 years. It goes back to the days of Tuesday Night Fights and Top Rank Boxing, but even TRB was inconsistent on Fridays.

Yes, they need to step up their matchmaking and put better guys in with better guys, but I'm willing to give them a year/18 months if they can continue at this pace. Should they end up doing that, however, I can't even imagine that - 3 weeks a month with world class fights on!

[big_james10]

Countless times over the years I've heard people say they don't follow boxing because it's mostly PPV.

But now, we have fights on multiple cable stations: Spike, NBC, CBS, Fox, etc. Not just on occasional Fridays and Saturdays, but on Tuesdays and Thursdays as well.

Instead of complaining about the quality of the match ups, we should be thankful to have a lot of boxing on TV.

And recently, the match ups have been getting better, with good ones currently on the schedule!

The majority of the people who post on this site aren't going to give Al Haymon credit for anything positive. They will, however, blame him for everything short of the Kennedy assassination.