PBC has TONS of money in the bank

[SUBZER0ED]

Spending lots of money is meaningless if you aren't going to make it back.

Oh, but it does have meaning. Spending tons of money with no ROI means that eventually the money will run out.

[MDPopescu]

I would assume PBC is still well capitalized though because things have gone the only way they could go and they could have gone no other way. (...)

Yeah... huh... I mean sure...

[Humean]

Are Americans who hate HBO and in love with PBC just plain cheap?

[The Gambler1981]

Yeah... huh... I mean sure...

Do you really not get it? That says more about you than me especially since you quoted me for zero reason at this point in the conversation~

[Scipio2009]

No proof....Just like there is no proof on basically every statement in this entire forum. However, it is an educated assumption on my part, that whoever was handling the PBC account from Waddell & Reed was not very thorough. I gave one example, but there are many other obvious ones.

And expecting heavy short term losses is not the same as throwing money away...You always try to minimize the expected losses.

You can't simply say "throwing money away" without providing an example of anything to corroborate that.

Outside of the coming Thurman-Porter card (which is being financed by Showtime for CBS), the fight budgets haven't been outlandish, and basically haven't been outlandish since basically June of Yr 1, the commercials are selling through (on TV time that was purchased well in advanced), and the events are being consistently sponsored by other folks beyond just Corona, lol.

[bballchump11]

Are Americans who hate HBO and in love with PBC just plain cheap?

I want to see my favorite sport be accessible to the maximum amount of viewers as possible. I'd love for boxing to become mainstream again where I can have a conversation about boxing with my friends and they know what/who I'm talking about. The PBC is the best hope for that at the moment.

I also hate seeing the fighters I support and follow to get screwed over, taken advantage of and broke. Meldrick Taylor is my second favorite fighter and he's brain damaged and broke.

[Humean]

I want to see my favorite sport be accessible to the maximum amount of viewers as possible. I'd love for boxing to become mainstream again where I can have a conversation about boxing with my friends and they know what/who I'm talking about. The PBC is the best hope for that at the moment.

I also hate seeing the fighters I support and follow to get screwed over, taken advantage of and broke. Meldrick Taylor is my second favorite fighter and he's brain damaged and broke.

Well I personally think the move away from free-to-air to HBO was more a symptom rather than the cause of the supposed decline in boxing being mainstream in the US. Besides even if PBC succeeds, and that is looking increasingly less likely, the long term goal is unlikely to be having the top fights on free-to-air, I think that it is very naive to think that although you might get a couple more years of higher quality match-ups on free-to-air which I suppose is a good thing in and of itself.

Will PBC stop fighters from getting brain damaged like Meldrick Taylor?

[Superbee]

PBC should show 10 million $ to Duva/Kovalev and look at their face blemishing in agony...

[PKing]

It's obvious that PBC will get deals with CBS, Bounce, FS1/FOX, and Spike.

The wildcards are ESPN & NBC.

I don't see how they can fail with $700 million in the bank and those deals on the horizon. Especially with HB boxing falling hard budget wise and quality wise.

[UNBIASED BOXING]

The biggest mistake they made was overpaying fighters.

It didn't even make sense. No other promoters/promotion teams were going to pay these guys $500,000 - $1,000,000 to fight a bum. Absolutely ******ed strategy and planning. They want to build name-branded fighters for big fights? They could have done it in a more economically intelligent way. It seems when they scouted fighters out they really couldn't tell:

a) Who was really good or not
b) How good they were in regards to their division
c) Whether or not the fighter was easier to market or not


Absolutely ridiculous.

HBO isn't leaving boxing. Not when they have Canelo (especially Canelo), Golovkin, Sergey Kovalev, and Andre Ward fighting for them.