HBO'S budget in 2016... less than $25 million.

[Jubei]

Am i blind or where is the source?

[original zero]

Considering what a fragment of the HBO budget boxing is, any trends downward are very bad signs considering it is the only sport they own any exclusivity rights to...

But that's exactly the thing . . . HBO had an interest in boxing because they were usually able to lock up most of the big stars and if you wanted to watch high level boxing, an HBO subscription was required.

Is it really worth investing in boxing when so much high level boxing is available outside of HBO?

They're not going to pull the plug tomorrow or even necessarily a few years from now. But long term, does it make sense for them to be in the boxing business? Probably not.

[OnePunch]

Am i blind or where is the source?

the OP wrote the numbers 1 - 9 on scraps of paper, crumbled them into little balls, shoved them into his sisters anus, and then pulled out 2 at random.

It just so happened he pulled out the 2, and then the 4.......

[ИATAS]

Am i blind or where is the source?

I've asked twice myself and never got them.

I don't doubt HBO has cut their budget but as far as this specific number seems to be a wild guess, until proven otherwise with an actual source OP is a big fat phony.

[KnockoutKings]

Am i blind or where is the source?

boxingscene is great for threads with no source. some people don't even ask for links/source and just go off the thread title lol

[k1llu]

Am i blind or where is the source?

still waiting

[bluebeam]

Hbo needs Better opponents, no doubt. but they have more stars by far.

But Showtime just spent a bunch on Jacobs/Quillin, did a all access for it, and it couldn't even do espn numbers.

PBC is not growing or building anything special, and showtimes numbers prove it to be a failure.

Hbo remaining consistent, and will be on there 3rd ppv since Floyd/Pac.

Haymon and Showtime have 0 ppv fights since Floyd left.

Ppv fights don't come out of HBO's budget.

So I don't get your point about ppv.

And the reason hbo is sinking is because the best opponents are pbc.

So with nobody for crawford,kovalev,canelo,golovkin to fight it's only a matter of time before all haymon fighters are welcomed back or hbo leaves the boxing game for good

[bluebeam]

No one knows what HBO's budget really is, but if it has been reduced, that means we won't be forced to watch garbage like GGG vs. the bum of the month or that crap we watched on Saturday night. With fewer resources, they will be forced to show only matchups between top quality opponents. So, if their budget is being cut, that is a good thing for fans.

Except that's not what hbo is doing. Instead they are giving us ortiz vs Tony Thompson and crawford vs lundy

2 meaningless fights. That just took away money from the budget. Meanwhile we may not get Lomachenko vs Walters or Gonzalez vs Estrada 2. But they give us ortiz vs thompson. I have had it up too here with hbo

the only good fights on hbo over the next year will all be ppv

Canelo vs khan
Pacquiao vs bradley
Canelo vs golovkin
Ward vs Kovalev
Crawford vs pacquiao

Anything else will be hbo fighter vs no hoper

[Eastcoast]

So the beginning of this thread is filled with the usual Flo-mo's celebrating the demise of HBO based on the opinion of some guy who claims he used to clean toilets at Showtime and he knows somebody who cleans toilets at HBO.

Those same people celebrating this baseless statement were all shaking their fingers when people were talking about the publicly disclosed numbers at W&R regarding the PBC.

Meantime where are all the PBC shows we were promised? ESPN just pushed back their PBC programming another two months, wonder why?

I'm told the 2016 #PBConESPN debut, delayed from January to April, has been pushed back again. No shows until June at this point. #boxing

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) March 1, 2016

[-PBP-]

So the beginning of this thread is filled with the usual Flo-mo's celebrating the demise of HBO based on the opinion of some guy who claims he used to clean toilets at Showtime and he knows somebody who cleans toilets at HBO.

Those same people celebrating this baseless statement were all shaking their fingers when people were talking about the publicly disclosed numbers at W&R regarding the PBC.

Meantime where are all the PBC shows we were promised? ESPN just pushed back their PBC programming another two months, wonder why?

I'm told the 2016 #PBConESPN debut, delayed from January to April, has been pushed back again. No shows until June at this point. #boxing

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) March 1, 2016

Why does it matter? There is no demand in the United States for this sport. It's in shambles right now.