Rate Peter Nelson's first 6 months of HBO Boxing Programming

[about.thousands]

All of HBO's biggest stars have fought or have a fight scheduled thru the first 6 months of the year.

Jan 30th
Kovalev vs. Pascal II
Mikhaylenko vs. Mayfield

Feb. 27th
Crawford vs. Lundy
Verdejo vs Silva

March 5th
Ortiz vs. Thompson
Ali vs. Vargas

March 26th
Ward vs. Barrera

April 9th
Pacquiao vs. Bradley III
G. Rameriz vs. Abraham
Valdez vs. Gradovich
J. Ramirez vs. Perez

April 23rd
Golovkin vs. Wade
R. Gonzalez vs. Juan Hernandez

May 7th
Canelo vs. Khan
Herrera vs. Matthysse (possible)

Kovalev could fight again in June but his promoter is talking about a fight in Russia and the Stevenson deal fell thru so most likely it'll be a showcase fight.

Arum has said Crawford will be ready to fight again in June/July. Can't think of an intriguing opponent since Matthysse will more than likely be fighting on the Canelo undercard. Postol would be a good fight but his manager says they want one fight before Crawford but they don't even have a fight scheduled.

Lomanchenko vs. Walters could change the rating or R. Gonzalez vs a live body could make the rating different but those fights aren't even being discussed as we know of.

[The Big Dunn]

All of HBO's biggest stars have fought or have a fight scheduled thru the first 6 months of the year.

Jan 30th
Kovalev vs. Pascal II
Mikhaylenko vs. Mayfield

Feb. 27th
Crawford vs. Lundy
Verdejo vs Silva

March 5th
Ortiz vs. Thompson
Ali vs. Vargas

March 26th
Ward vs. Barrera

April 9th
Pacquiao vs. Bradley III
G. Rameriz vs. Abraham
Valdez vs. Gradovich
J. Ramirez vs. Perez

April 23rd
Golovkin vs. Wade
Gonzalez vs. TBA

May 7th
Canelo vs. Khan
Herrera vs. Matthysse (possible)

Kovalev could fight again in June but his promoter is talking about a fight in Russia and the Stevenson deal fell thru so most likely it'll be a showcase fight.

Arum has said Crawford will be ready to fight again in June/July. Can't think of an intriguing opponent since Matthysse will more than likely be fighting on the Canelo undercard. Postol would be a good fight but his manager says they want one fight before Crawford but they don't even have a fight scheduled.

Lomanchenko vs. Walters could change the rating or R. Gonzalez vs a live body could make the rating different but those fights aren't even being discussed as we know of.

You can't really kill him. He is working with a reduced budget and is just on the job. I'd give him 3 stars overall but I am very disappointed with what they have planned so far for the guys they have exclusive deals with.

The ortiz/thompson ali/vargas card is good but they do not have deals. Lomanchenko will be given a cupcake and will not go up to 130 to fight walters.

Mind you they do not need anyone aligned with Haymon either.

How much better would it be if we were seeing/saw:

Jan 30th
Kovalev vs. Yuneski Gonzalez
Mikhaylenko vs. Mayfield

Feb. 27th
Crawford vs. Postol
Verdejo vs Silva

March 5th
Ortiz vs. Thompson
Ali vs. Vargas

March 26th
Ward vs. Shabrynsky
Herrera v Matthysse

April 9th
Pacquiao vs. Khan
Ramirez v Abraham
Valdez vs. Gradovich
J. Ramirez vs. Perez

May 7th
Canelo v Golovkin
Gonzalez vs. estrada

Yes its one less card but its so much more quality that we as boxing fans would be buzzing.

[about.thousands]

I gave him 3 stars for attempting to work with Haymon. Good start. Hopefully it'll pick up in the second half of the year.

[-PBP-]

0 'fresh' headlining fights between 2 top 10 contenders in any weight division. Totally unacceptable.

[Luiz]

[REMOVE SHARK 55]

Looking at those fights I'm sure all the favourites are expected to win. They're all officially mismatches just like Bob Arum said it'll be. He gets some brownie points for working with Uncle Al.

[Hougigo]

HBO Schedule is ass. Best they have going for them are PPVs.... and both are in the fall and both still have a meh chance of happening this year

[about.thousands]

Updated to reflect R. Gonzalez vs. Juan Hernandez

Roman Gonzalez vs. Juan Hernandez planned for April 23rd. https://t.co/n9tbTxgbCM pic.twitter.com/ouOG12LZML

— Bad Left Hook (@badlefthook) February 10, 2016

[The Big Dunn]

Updated to reflect R. Gonzalez vs. Juan Hernandez

Roman Gonzalez vs. Juan Hernandez planned for April 23rd. https://t.co/n9tbTxgbCM pic.twitter.com/ouOG12LZML

— Bad Left Hook (@badlefthook) February 10, 2016

This makes it a little worse.

[hhs661]

All of HBO's biggest stars have fought or have a fight scheduled thru the first 6 months of the year.

Jan 30th
Kovalev vs. Pascal II
- 2 stars
Mikhaylenko vs. Mayfield
- 0 stars

Feb. 27th
Crawford vs. Lundy
- 1star
Verdejo vs Silva
- 2 stars

March 5th
Ortiz vs. Thompson
- 3 stars
Ali vs. Vargas
- 2 stars

March 26th
Ward vs. Barrera
-3 stars

April 9th
Pacquiao vs. Bradley III
- 2 stars
G. Rameriz vs. Abraham
- 3 stars
Valdez vs. Gradovich
- 4 stars
J. Ramirez vs. Perez
- 3 stars

April 23rd
Golovkin vs. Wade
- lol 0 stars wtf
R. Gonzalez vs. Juan Hernandez
- 1 star

May 7th
Canelo vs. Khan
- 1 star
Herrera vs. Matthysse (possible)
- 4 stars

in my humble opinion...

with an average of 2.067 stars