Debunking the PBC fighters can't fight on HBO Theory Myth and GGG's HBO contract

[bigjavi973]

Most boxing fans pay for cable, so how is it free?

HBO & Showtime are NOT included in a BASIC cable package

[OnePunch]

HBO & Showtime are NOT included in a BASIC cable package

so for those of us who buy HBO / Showtime for Homeland, Ray Donovan, etc, is the boxing considered "free"? lol

[Deevel916]

You tell me? You guys are the ones saying he can't find a fight due to network politics. Maybe he needs to either find a new network or new promoter?

The way things have looked lately, K2/Loeffler won't even attempt to negotiate with Haymon promoters until today, but only because they were made to by the IBF.

And you see in the OP that Ken Hershman has no issue with Haymon fighters fighting on the network. To take it a step further, did HBO not let GGG fight Adamu on another network or no?

Adonis Stevenson left HBO and joined Haymon and look how well that worked out for him. He's been irrelevant ever since.

[jqSide]

If GG joins Haymon, Lara and Jacobs would stop tweeting and hinting.

[original zero]

Because he is burning through cash at a frightening rate.

Please tell us the rate at which he is burning through cash so we can decide for ourselves whether to be frightened.

Thanks.

[brettWall]

The real myth is Haymon letting his top fighters fight top fighters from other networks if there were no issues. He rarely pit his top fighters against each other let alone from other networks. Call me when Haymon changes his ways. Otherwise, this thread is joke.

[Scott9945]

Please tell us the rate at which he is burning through cash so we can decide for ourselves whether to be frightened.

Thanks.

Buying TV time and overpaying talent.

Poor ratings and lack of sponsors.

Major drop in TV dates so far in 2016

How else do you see this going?

[Jubei]

Please tell us the rate at which he is burning through cash so we can decide for ourselves whether to be frightened.

Thanks.

Rick Glaser
December 28, 2015 at 1:06am

I look back at this year in boxing as a year of change. Tyson Fury takes the heavyweight crown from Wladimir Klitschko, after Wlad held it for 9 years. Al Haymon gets his PBC underway, and in 10 months losses 250 million plus. Because of the "free boxing" on 8 different channels by PBC, PPV becomes "now in trouble" Head of Sports at HBO Ken Hershman resigns, and long time head of HBO PPV Mark Taffert leaves too. Winds of change are upon us in boxing. One thing that didn't change, another year, and sadly another Knockout loss for Roy Jones,jr, now age 46.

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[original zero]

Buying TV time and overpaying talent.

Poor ratings and lack of sponsors.

Major drop in TV dates so far in 2016

How else do you see this going?

Buying TV time and overpaying talent was always part of the plan. What other way is there to pull off what Haymon is trying to pull off?

Poor ratings and lack of sponsors is your opinion and the facts don't seem to support your opinion. 3,390,000 people watched Danny Garcia on FOX. How many people would have watched him if the fight had been on HBO?

PBC telecasts have had several sponsors. We have no idea how many sponsors they expected at this stage of the game, so "lack of sponsors" is vague empty rhetoric on your part.

We're not even a month into 2016, so I'm not sure how you can judge TV dates yet.

[Scott9945]

Buying TV time and overpaying talent was always part of the plan. What other way is there to pull off what Haymon is trying to pull off?

Poor ratings and lack of sponsors is your opinion and the facts don't seem to support your opinion. 3,390,000 people watched Danny Garcia on FOX. How many people would have watched him if the fight had been on HBO?

PBC telecasts have had several sponsors. We have no idea how many sponsors they expected at this stage of the game, so "lack of sponsors" is vague empty rhetoric on your part.

We're not even a month into 2016, so I'm not sure how you can judge TV dates yet.

Steadily losing money is usually a poor business plan.

Poor ratings and lack of sponsors is my opinion? The ratings speak for itself. When you hear halfway through the main event that "there will be no more commercial interruptions", that translate into the sponsor money has run out. Of course PBC wants as many sponsors as possible. Why wouldn't they? And comparing viewer totals on premium cable to network TV is apples/oranges.

One month into 2016, but TV fights are already scheduled for the next 2-3 months. Maybe you noticed that Thurman-Porter on Showtime will not be a PBC broadcast? Their schedule has diminished noticeably.

You are strictly spinning this with blind optimism. My points make sense to anyone with common sense and basic boxing business awareness. I'll be proven right. I'm just not sure how long it will take.