Three HBO PPVs in 6 months?!? HBO budget shrinking again?

[soul_survivor]

Trump not looking like such a bad idea after all...

Only in American can a man like Trump be a billionaire, let alone a presidential candidate.

One nation under God...right?

[OnePunch]

Only in American can a man like Trump be a billionaire, let alone a presidential candidate.

One nation under God...right?

I saw a meme the other day, I didnt have time to research it to see if it was true, but it was funny as hell.......

It claimed that the "genius" businessman Trump's net worth is roughly 2.9 billion. And if instead of being mr genius businessman real estate tycoon, had he just put his inheritance in a growth fund pegged to the S & P 500 his net worth today would be over 8 billion lol........

[AddiX]

Only in American can a man like Trump be a billionaire, let alone a presidential candidate.

One nation under God...right?

Just explain this to me.

When your fitting kids into a suicidal vest, do you pick reebok or Nike?

[BennyBlanco]

I dont think its so much a "shrinking" of the budget, as it is the financial demands of those fights cant be met with the typical HBO rights fee.

I don't think that's accurate, at least with respect to Kovalev vs. Stevenson.

Kovalev vs. Stevenson can be made relatively inexpensively. Kovalev has never made more than $750K. That fight can easily be fit into the customary big fight $3M license fee, so it's not big purses that are forcing this fight to PPV.

[soul_survivor]

Just explain this to me.

When your fitting kids into a suicidal vest, do you pick reebok or Nike?

I dunno but answer me this, why's your sisters vag so loose? You been going at it again red neck?

[Jsmooth9876]

I don't think that's accurate, at least with respect to Kovalev vs. Stevenson.

Kovalev vs. Stevenson can be made relatively inexpensively. Kovalev has never made more than $750K. That fight can easily be fit into the customary big fight $3M license fee, so it's not big purses that are forcing this fight to PPV.

You sure about that $ for Kovalev? He didn't make more then that vs Pascal? If not then damn he's getting jobbed

[soul_survivor]

I saw a meme the other day, I didnt have time to research it to see if it was true, but it was funny as hell.......

It claimed that the "genius" businessman Trump's net worth is roughly 2.9 billion. And if instead of being mr genius businessman real estate tycoon, had he just put his inheritance in a growth fund pegged to the S & P 500 his net worth today would be over 8 billion lol........

Remember, he is a genius by American standards ...

[BennyBlanco]

Haymon has driven prices up so high, what other option does hbo have? Showtime just paid 3+ million for less than 300k in ratings. So imagine what happens when fighters see that snd consistently bring in 1 million plus in ratings?

What the promoter pays in purses isn't necessarily what the network pays for the fight. After all, the promoter also has the gate and foreign to use to pay the purse. If the purses were $3M, the likelihood is that the network paid some portion of that, and some portion of it came from foreign and the gate.

In any event, ratings on premium TV have little to do with license fee. The fact that Jacobs-Quillin, a solid fight, did 400K viewers probably had as much to do with the fact that there were 3 college football games with national championship implications on directly opposite the fight than with the drawing power of the fighters. I think those three games totaled about 19,000,000 viewers, which undoubtedly reduced the boxing audience.

[AddiX]

I dunno but answer me this, why's your sisters vag so loose? You been going at it again red neck?

Yep, that's exactly why.

Why is your sister bleeding in the middle of the street? did you and your family stone her to death again Mr. Akbar?

[BennyBlanco]

You sure about that $ for Kovalev? He didn't make more then that vs Pascal? If not then damn he's getting jobbed

Apples and oranges. Kovalev-Pascal was on PPV in Canada - which actually helps the U.S. network.

When a fight is in Canada and is a Canadian PPV, the U.S. network customarily pays less because there are greater revenues available from the other sources.

So since Kovalev-Stevenson would likely be a Canadian PPV, that makes it even more affordable for HBO to put it on HBO.