Comments Thread For: Premier Boxing Champions: Still Lacking For Focus

[bigdunny1]

Little Baby Dunny set whatever date you want and let's look at it if you want and we'll compare but don't be your usual biased self and just hope you stop being a whiny b.itch and accept the facts however the chips fall even if they don't support your argument

Obviously some fighters won't fight as much in your given time frame but some others will fight more. But this notion that HBO fighters fight more often and PBc lay dormant for extended periods of time isn't true

So you have answer for why for ALMOST a year now we have seen a ton of Haymon's top fighters basically turned into once a year inactive fighters? LMAO And it's not some you dip shyt I posted a long list of fighters just off the top of my head. Which just so happens to line up when there was a major shift in PBC with Haymon canceling tons of PBC shows and putting his B and C class fighters as headliners of these cards instead of the A list fighters. Which is why people complain about PBC looking like a hot mess with no rhyme or reason. Early last year you would never of seen haymon use one of his prime time NBC cards for a bum like Fonfara.

Thurman hasn't fought since last July
Porter hasn't fought since last June
Jacobs hasn't fought since the first week of last Dec and will not fight UNTIL maybe Sept
Quillin hasn't fought since last dec and has NO fight on the horizon
Danny hasn't fought since Jan and STILL has no fight lined up
Khan went a FULL year without fighting before facing Canelo May 7 (last pbc fight was May 29 2015)
Omar Figueroa hasn't fought since last dec
Adonis Stevenson hasn't fought since 9/11/2015 and doens't have a fight until 7/29/2016
Devon Alexander hasn't fought since last nov

Since middle of last year these guys have all become virtually once a year inactive fighters. And I'm sure there is more I haven't even thought of.

That's a long list of fighters who are more inactive now then at any point in their career yet there is nothing to see it has nothing to do with the failures of PBC?

And yup not confusing at all when a guy like Jacobs has his biggest win of his career in a Dec fight that doesn't go 1 round and he suffers no injury and he has yet to fight in 2016 and his next fight was canceled/postponed with PBC giving no information other then he MIGHT fight in Sept.

[R_Walken]

Competitive fights?! Really?! You can only get away with saying that because Thurman-porter is in two days.

So your not going include
Mares / LSC
Broner / Porter
Lee / Quillen
Jack / Dirrel
Dirrel / Degeale
Cleverly / Fonfara
Glowasksi / Huck
Thurman / Guerrero
Garcia / Peterson
Vanes / Lara
Trout / Charlo

And probably a sh.it more if I actually thought about or could review the schedule you know top 10s fighting each other. Where the outcome isn't predetermined how often does that happen on HBO

That's just ******. I've been watching FNF for years and they have produced some of the best fights I've seen on free tv. They don't even have mega budget to overpay fighters. Compare that to Lara getting $1 million for fighting a semi-retired, blown up welter, Zaveck. Waste of time and money.

You obviously don't watch FNF. You're just guessing.

Your right I rarely watched FNF because because in sports I like watching the best competing whether it's NHL, NBA or boxing. I don't watch the ECHL hockey or Tier 2 Turkish League B-Ball. For the most part FNF was 1 step above club fighters most of the time with no chance of being elites. what PBc has put on ESPN & Spike in Fridays sh.its on what FNF was doing. But people on here for whatever reason love romanticizing it now that it's gone. I wasn't aware that you actually paid Laras salary so really why do even care, he also made 1 million against Canelo so what's your point

Just wondering in your opinion what were the great matchups in their last 5 years that FNF put on ?

[boxingitis]

With all that being said, they only been in business for a YEAR, they shouldn't give up. The recent UFC Deal for 4 Billion is why Haymon and his group should be VERY PATIENT and not give up. All of these major Brands and Companies start off slow and see losses probably for the first 2-5 years but then all it takes especially in boxing is that big Must See Star and all of a sudden business is booming and ratings are through the roof

Focusing on young NEW stars and building up new stars is what they probably should've done from the very beginning to be honest instead of overpaying guys to fight weak opponents on PBC

This might sound crazy but a PBC video game with EA Sports or 2K Sports would really help. That is a brilliant marketing tool to reach that young Demographic but it has to be a GREAT Game and would have to including Mayweather as the Cover Athlete or something like that

PBC took all of Golden Boys Stars and hasnt done squat. The one that needs new starts are Golden Boy.

[R_Walken]

So you have answer for why for ALMOST a year now we have seen a ton of Haymon's top fighters basically turned into once a year inactive fighters? LMAO And it's not some you dip shyt I posted a long list of fighters just off the top of my head. Which just so happens to line up when there was a major shift in PBC with Haymon canceling tons of PBC shows and putting his B and C class fighters as headliners of these cards instead of the A list fighters. Which is why people complain about PBC looking like a hot mess with no rhyme or reason. Early last year you would never of seen haymon use one of his prime time NBC cards for a bum like Fonfara.


That's a long list of fighters who are more inactive now then at any point in their career yet there is nothing to see it has nothing to do with the failures of PBC?

And yup not confusing at all when a guy like Jacobs has his biggest win of his career in a Dec fight that doesn't go 1 round and he suffers no injury and he has yet to fight in 2016 and his next fight was canceled/postponed with PBC giving no information other then he MIGHT fight in Sept.

Your literally a f.ucking clown, I'll take you up let's start from 1 year ago today and compare and I'll do the same list I'm driving now so give me some time

And now Fonfara a bum just last week people were itching to see him rematch Adonis. I just hope your only this much of a q.ueer on here and not in the real world. Mr claims he wanted PBC to succeed but set up acct here 1 day after the first card and for a year and half been just a negative little b.itch

[North Star]

I'm hearing through the g****vine that the network guy that brought Haymon/PBC to NBC got fired after the weekend. I'm guessing he will end up working with Haymon like others that ended up jobless.

[Mitchell Kane]

I'm hearing through the g****vine that the network guy that brought Haymon/PBC to NBC got fired after the weekend. I'm guessing he will end up working with Haymon like others that ended up jobless.

Luis Ferrer.

Dan Rafael reported it on it already.

It now looks like the main PBC contacts at ESPN (Kweder) and NBC (Ferrer) are now out.

NBC Sports executive Luis Ferrer, one of the point people in negotiating the deal with Al Haymon to bring Premier Boxing Champions to the network in 2015, is leaving effective Friday. Ferrer, who worked as an HBO Sports boxing executive for 10 years before joining NBC in 2013, plans to remain in boxing.

http://www.espn.co.uk/blog/dan-rafae...vyweight-title

But then Schaefer came out this week saying he's gonna go to networks after he puts his team together, so we'll see what happens with that.

[bigdunny1]

Your literally a f.ucking clown, I'll take you up let's start from 1 year ago today and compare and I'll do the same list I'm driving now so give me some time

And now Fonfara a bum just last week people were itching to see him rematch Adonis. I just hope your only this much of a q.ueer on here and not in the real world. Mr claims he wanted PBC to succeed but set up acct here 1 day after the first card and for a year and half been just a negative little b.itch

So basically still no answer for why an army of top haymon fighters who are all in the midst of career long layoffs are now virtually fighting once a year? And of course none of this has to do with the fact that PBC burned through too much money last year and can barely afford to pay for Haymon top fighters to be on these PBC cards. That can't be it instead there is some business strategy genius to having a bum like Fonfara headline prime time NBC instead. And why guys like Beterbiev now headline ESPN prime time cards INSTEAD of the A list stars that headlined these same cards a year ago? But go head give us the horse shyt excuse? And please continue telling us everything is going GREAT for PBC despite the facts that NBC just posted their alltime lowest PBC tv ratings and EACH card since the debut a year and half ago has gotten worse ratings then the one before. ESPN sat prime time ratings are now HALF of the LOWEST sat prime time ratings from last year.

[bigdunny1]

I'm hearing through the g****vine that the network guy that brought Haymon/PBC to NBC got fired after the weekend. I'm guessing he will end up working with Haymon like others that ended up jobless.

No worries this h0e R_Walken will tell you that was part of the plan and is somehow a GREAT thing for PBC. All these clear signs that things are not working are just a media creation and haters. LMAO

NBC Sports Director of Acquisitions Luis Ferrer, who walked Haymon into the pea**** network, is out from NBC. Another scalp for Big Al.

— Boxing Leaks (@BoxingLeaks) June 23, 2016

[Bullrider]

Where does Thurman-Porter lead? Will Garcia be at ringside? Will Errol Spence? Boxing is exciting in the moment but it always needs a 'what next.

So what's next?

Without having ideas as to those answers, fewer and fewer seem to be tuning in. It feels like a series of random matches that might lead to something bigger but, hey, well see.


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That's a good description fans have been seeing for the past years, "series of random matches." Let's hope Thurman/Porter will lead to something huge.

[bigjavi973]

Fuck that shit. I blame HBO & Showtime for signing fighters strictly to their channels.

Makes it that much harder to produce fights when a fighter can only fight on "A" or "B" network.