Comments Thread For: HBO Sports Hopeful of 3 Fights for Golovkin, Canelo in 2016

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Golovkin vs andy lee

Canelo vs margarito


Seems about right

[observer]

HBO needs to stop wasting its budget on GGG vs. bums. That scumbag Little G has single handedly ruined HBO's year. Dominic Wade and Kell Brook? Are you serious? Put that s**t on PPV so Little G's 10 fans can buy it and jerk off to it.

Wade was mandatory.

Brook fight is not being financed by HBO. They are not paying the usual money for it because it's in England and during the day.

I'd love to see GGG - BJS in December in England. But I fear Canelo will get the BJS fight. And not because BJS will get more money against Canelo. I think BJS would make at least the same amount of money against GGG in England. But because BJS thinks he can beat Canelo and he can't beat GGG...

[lopez36]

Posters on here lack a buisness perspective. Of course you ggg to fight 3-4x on your network. He is one of your hottest products. Even if the competition is lack luster, the virw rate is always high(non-ppv) and ggg sells out venues. Plus more exposure for hbo saying then showcase top fighters, which ggg and canelo are 2 of the biggest in the sport. Hbo; never take business advice from us fans.

i was thinking the same as you but oh well,some dont understand that

[GaryMSchneider]

HBO needs to stop wasting its budget on GGG vs. bums. That scumbag Little G has single handedly ruined HBO's year. Dominic Wade and Kell Brook? Are you serious? Put that s**t on PPV so Little G's 10 fans can buy it and jerk off to it.

....so dumb....

[Nightfall]

HBO knows good and dam well the alvared isn't ever fighting lil G. they'll do anything to get ratings.

[JRB123]

They're hopeful because they really don't have anything else..That's why they opened it up for other promotional companies who haven't been there to jump on the network.

[Eastcoast]

One could say that garbage fights are what got them in this budget pinch in the first place. The UFC lost business when they switched to high-volume, low-quality.
Selling out arenas has no relevance to HBO viewership. If 1.3mill is what their hottest product is pulling in this year, and he can't sell PPVs, then maybe it's time for a change. THAT'S a business perspective.

UFC lost business when they lost stars. The high volume kept things moving forward so they could develop new stars.

Selling out arena's is a metric showing that somebody might be popular and worth investing in. If Golovkin was able to have gotten fights with guys like Martinez, Quillin, Froch, Chavez, Alvarez, Jacobs - his ratings might be a little better. Instead he's had to make do with what's available.

Ironically his ratings vs Brook might end up being his best yet. They obviously well be his best in Europe.

[daggum]

HBO needs to stop wasting its budget on GGG vs. bums. That scumbag Little G has single handedly ruined HBO's year. Dominic Wade and Kell Brook? Are you serious? Put that s**t on PPV so Little G's 10 fans can buy it and jerk off to it.

ward vs barrera? ward vs brand? there's 5 million dollars gone

[Redd Foxx]

UFC lost business when they lost stars. The high volume kept things moving forward so they could develop new stars.

Wrong. They peaked in 2010 when they were stacking PPVs. The stars were still there in 2012 when they started to really stumble. The problem was that they were using one star name per PPV, like boxing often does. When the UFC went back to using several name-value competitors per PPV in 2015, the numbers came back. This whole thing was documented and discussed many timers on MMA websites over the past several years.

[Redd Foxx]

ward vs barrera?

That brought in nearly the same number of views as Golovkin this year...
Unlike GGG though, Ward will actually be taking a real fight this year so I'd say that was a better investment for them.