PBC and HBO can now work together

[AllBoxingAD]

Exactly, there is no other way to interpret that statement.

If he wanted to be clear and specific, he wouldnt have left it up to interpretation.

Maybe this was an olive branch. Hopefully. But its way too criptic for us to be definitive about anything. Look at the way he answered the Kovalev-Stevenson question.

I would have prefered something like " There is no longer a so called Haymon ban, we want to work with his fighters for the good of boxing".

[Ernie Mavers]

If he wanted to be clear and specific, he wouldnt have left it up to interpretation.

Maybe this was an olive branch. Hopefully. But its way too criptic for us to be definitive about anything. Look at the way he answered the Kovalev-Stevenson question.

I would have prefered something like " There is no longer a so called Haymon ban, we want to work with his fighters for the good of boxing".

Being cryptic is part of of being a public administrator, it would have been bad form to specifically mention Al Haymon.

Clearly he is referring to PBC, if you don't agree with me, feel free to share with us which promoter he is talking about.

[Grimmer]

Will Haymon want to do business with HBO?

[Bram]

I think he was clearly talking about Haymon. Why would he make a statement like that about people they already work with? It's not even worth saying. I can't imagine that there would ever be a PBC show on HBO, but seeing them have some back and forth with their fighters would be a very nice thing.

[Eastcoast]

HBO never banned Haymon fighters, go back and reread Hershman's original statement. HBO agreed to buy Quillin/Korobov, Stieverne/Ortiz. If ME & TR won their purse bids for Kovalev/Stevenson and Russell/Lomachenko, HBO would've aired them as well.

Haymon doesn't want his guys on HBO, he wants to starve off the HBO promoters so they have to work for him. Only thing Peter Nelson can do is allow HBO fighters to have one-off fights on a Haymon platform whenever there's a purse-bid.

[HeroBando]

Being cryptic is part of of being a public administrator, it would have been bad form to specifically mention Al Haymon.

Clearly he is referring to PBC, if you don't agree with me, feel free to share with us which promoter he is talking about.

Haymon is not a promoter, right? It'd be illegal

[Ernie Mavers]

Will Haymon want to do business with HBO?

Of course he will. More networks, more everything, not to mention there is landmark events he can stage if you consider the fighters on his roster, and the fighters on HBO's roster

[Ernie Mavers]

I think he was clearly talking about Haymon. Why would he make a statement like that about people they already work with? It's not even worth saying. I can't imagine that there would ever be a PBC show on HBO, but seeing them have some back and forth with their fighters would be a very nice thing.

Thats what I am saying. Not PBC shows, but PBC fighters appearing on HBO is inevitable.

[Ernie Mavers]

Haymon is not a promoter, right? It'd be illegal

PBC is universally regarded as a promoter.

Semantics aside, they are THE promoter in boxing, and Haymon is the ringleader.

Break that down however you want.

[Ernie Mavers]

Couldn't disagree with you more.

It appears Haymon's plan is to starve HBO until they throw in the towel and get out of the boxing business.

Showtime has been fiercely loyal to Haymon and Haymon does a lot of business with their parent company via Showtime, CBS and Spike.

Haymon isn't going to help HBO deliver any landmark events. If anything, he wants them to burn up their potential landmark events. Meanwhile, Haymon continues to develop most of the top prospects.

When it's time for the new generation to take over, Haymon will have most of the stars and HBO will be fighting for scraps.

Meanwhile, more and more fighters will want to sign with Haymon since he's the one that will be able to deliver TV dates and title shots.

Working at HBO at this point would be hugely damaging to everything else he's working on. Wouldn't make any sense.

Do you own your own business? Maximum value is always the objective. Haymon has contracts with FS1, and ESPN, two companies in a much more prolific competition than little old Showtime, and HBO. Haymon owes nobody anything, who cares about Showtime.

Thats company is becoming a wasteland, Haymon and HBO is going to happen, and there is nothing Showtime can do about it.

A part of me believes some boxing fans DON'T want to see this happen.

What would would they ***** about otherwise?