Comments Thread For: Lemieux To Face Cristian Rios, Stevens Out Due To HBO Budget

[E-Thug]

Our American friends should cancel HBO right now. First we lost Lomachenko V Walters, a fight with P4P ramifications, due to budget cuts. Now we lose a slugfest between Stevens V Lemieux. This is getting ridiculous.

[Kigali]

Boxing on premium tv is dying, HBO checking its money, Showtime losing boxing views....

Its all now on basic/regular tv

You just can't admit HBO boxing is folding without trying to drag down Showtime...

Showtime will be fine...they pulled a coup on HBO..they'll be fine.

[Kigali]

Our American friends should cancel HBO right now. First we lost Lomachenko V Walters, a fight with P4P ramifications, due to budget cuts. Now we lose a slugfest between Stevens V Lemieux. This is getting ridiculous.

...but....but....it's Al Haymon doe.

...he....he... over paying his fighters doe.

[r1onnie2]

Just waiting for HBO to officially cancel boxing, so that I can cancel my HBO subscription.

I didn't even wait, I canceled my HBO subscription a few months back!

[r1onnie2]

Yep, boxing is the only reason I have HBO or Showtime as well.

Boxing was my only reason for having HBO and Showtime to! I finally canceled HBO a few months ago and Showtime is currently on life support with me and I'm thinking of pulling the plug!

[slimPickings]

Hmm....so we go from a 50/50 fight to a fight against who?
And he is from where? Argentina. Again.


Hope they did a background check on him and confirmed he is not another cab driver.
Christian Fabian Rios is probably on the phone now trying to get some tips from Peralta on how to pull off another upset!

So how much is the "Canadian star" getting paid to fight an unknown who "has never been stopped"?

How much would he have been paid by HBO to duke it out with Stevens that would have been "unsatisfactory"?

Some how methinks they see Stevens as high risk / low reward and the "sources" are conveniently casting blame on HBO for the duck!!!!

[BoxingIsGreat]

HBO can't even afford Stevens? Wow. PBC will drive HBO right out of boxing business in a couple of years. How the tables have turned!

[Scipio2009]

Then they should have fought in showtime, is lemule obligated to fight in hbo? How much is stevens' purse? Downfall of hbo, that was a trash fight

Lemieux is with Oscar De La Hoya, the person who ****ed Stephen Espinoza out of a deal to showcase Saul Alvarez on SHOPPV.

personal realtionships mean something, especially when there's money on the line.

[Scipio2009]

Boxing was my only reason for having HBO and Showtime to! I finally canceled HBO a few months ago and Showtime is currently on life support with me and I'm thinking of pulling the plug!

Showtime's got the Joshua fight, will likely have Danny Garcia's next fight, Jack-Degale (which, seeing how folks talk on this board, has waning interest to some), and will be the TV partner for Lou DiBella in the coming Golovkin-Jacobs purse bid.

You add the coming junior middleweight fights (Charlo-Williams, and the likely afternoon broadcast for Demetrius Andrade, etc), Stevenson-Alvarez (likely to close out the year, with anticipation of Ward's pending free agency), the spillover of fights beyond what PBC can cover, and a pretty regular supply of fights through ShoBox, and I'm not sure what you're looking at.

[Kigali]

HBO can't even afford Stevens? Wow. PBC will drive HBO right out of boxing business in a couple of years. How the tables have turned!