Is Al Haymon Leaving Soon?

[Azteka]

He's not leaving but be careful what you wish for, PBC is really the only organization putting out events consistently. HBO's budget for boxing is declining every year, they're decreasing the purses, they're putting more fights on PPV that don't belong, they're falling out with Top Rank.

The whole PBC is ruining and taking up all the boxing slots thing is like lazy Americans saying that Mexican illegals were stealing American jobs. How? When you won't do those jobs anyway. Same applies to PBC, they're using Spike, Fox, NBC and all those channels no promoter ever touched, but somehow PBC is stealing airtime all of a sudden. At least that was DLH and Arum's argument about PBC.

Yo, PBC is taking our airtime on Fox Sports, that coulda been us judge!

You have to wonder how boxing got along before PBC, right? Oh yeah, we were getting very good matchups before PBC came and put another rift into boxing. I guess the year 2013 never happened, right. Probably one of the best years of boxing.

PBC is also giving us terrible mismatches with a few little crumbs thrown in. You probably thought Quillin/Zerafa was a good fight.

[deanrw]

The way some act in here, you would swear Al is collecting food stamps, or they are wishing it will happen. Yes he made business tough for others. Yes he is aggressive in his approach. Here is the question though, don't you think Bob or Oscar would have done the same thing if they were presented the opportunity? Of course they would. There are no good guys in the sport, there never has been any. In the end they all just want all the control. Me? I'll take whatever boxing gets aired.

[bballchump11]

Looking forward to this weekend's card on NBC, especially the Spence/Algieri fight.

Same here and then we got another card right away on Showtime.

[boliodogs]

Hopefully very soon. He's trying so hard to get black Americans interested in boxing by force feeding us fighters like the Charlos, Dirrells, Broner, Spence, Russell Jr., Davis, and so on, but black Americans don't attend boxing events or buy PPVs. Black Americans would rather spend all their money on clothes, shoes, eat out, and front at the club like they're rich for a night.

You don't see many black people at any sporting events for that matter. They're weird. They don't support their own by attending sporting events or buying PPVs and stuff like that, but best believe they'll use the accomplishments of those athletes they don't support as some sort of racial superiority theory.

I'm white and I never buy PPV even for my favorite fighters. I won't pay fifty bucks or more to watch something live when I can see the same fight for free on my cable stations 7 days later. I'll be enjoying the Pacquiao-Bradley fight for free on HBO this Saturday. I think you are exaggerating things. Lots of black Americans attend boxing events.

[Azteka]

The way some act in here, you would swear Al is collecting food stamps, or they are wishing it will happen. Yes he made business tough for others. Yes he is aggressive in his approach. Here is the question though, don't you think Bob or Oscar would have done the same thing if they were presented the opportunity? Of course they would. There are no good guys in the sport, there never has been any. In the end they all just want all the control. Me? I'll take whatever boxing gets aired.

GBP has been on fire. Not sure what you are talking about. Oscar gave us Lemieux/Golovkin when he could've just done what Haymon does and protect his champion. Also gave us Postol/Matthysse when Danny Garcia was absolutely terrified of Postol. Jennings/Ortiz, Canelo/Cotto, Vargas/Miura, Shabranksyy/Gonzalez, and I could go on.

He's giving fans good fights on a more consistent basis.

[Azteka]

I'm white and I never buy PPV even for my favorite fighters. I won't pay fifty bucks or more to watch something live when I can see the same fight for free on my cable stations 7 days later. I'll be enjoying the Pacquiao-Bradley fight for free on HBO this Saturday. I think you are exaggerating things. Lots of black Americans attend boxing events.

You could've just ended with the first sentence. Why add this at the end? He's speculating, but you are also speculating.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

nbc-showtime=the same company man

Actually, it's not NBC, it's cbs that owns showtime

[BoxingIsGreat]

Same here and then we got another card right away on Showtime.

Really? I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.

[Mitchell Kane]

I don't think Haymon will be leaving for a long time, but it is interesting to note the purses of this weekends NBC card.

Algieri made more fighting on Spike than he'll be making on NBC.

Dan Rafael
@danrafaelespn
Purses for #PBConNBC card Sat night: Spence $225k, Algieri 325k, Glowacki 150k, Cunningham 225k, Browne 100k, Kalajdzic 85k. #SpenceAlgieri

[Nubia]

He's about to sign Mikey Garcia, Mexico's best fighter.