Comments Thread For: Arum: HBO Made Their Choice, Pacquiao Contract is Terminated

[bluebeam]

Big fish in a small pond like Bradley

That's not true

He was a small fish in a big pond when he signed with top rank.

Top rank has made him a big fish

[TOBYLEE1]

Bob wants to sell Pac/Vargas type of fights to HBO and that is not cutting it.

Pac is no longer the attraction that he once was and to make serious PPV numbers he has to have a named opponent.

Just paying to see Pac fight just anybody doesn't sell

[Mike D]

I'm a Pac-tard so I'll be like 1 of the 14 people on the planet who will be buying this, but lol, I bet the production is going to be tru-tv fight card level. Promotional outfits don't air their own PPV's for a reason.

These motherf**kers probably gonna have Marv Albert's down syndrome'd little brother Kenny calling the fight with Rod Salka as the analyst, smh.

[HanzGruber]

I'm a Pac-tard so I'll be like 1 of the 14 people on the planet who will be buying this, but lol, I bet the production is going to be tru-tv fight card level. Promotional outfits don't air their own PPV's for a reason.

These motherf**kers probably gonna have Marv Albert's down syndrome'd little brother Kenny calling the fight with Rod Salka as the analyst, smh.

Even worse.. Probably bob sheridan and Larry merchant

[Mike D]

Even worse.. Probably bob sheridan and Larry merchant

[DSGteamko]

PEDquiao is not relevant anymore in the sport of boxing.

[Southpawology]

Pac has been all used up by his pimp arum. At this point its just attempting to squeeze blood from a stone.

[Bronx23]

HBO Boxing is coming to an end sadly. They just aren't dishing out the money like they used to. Which is causing a lot of fights to not be made or forcing non ppv fights to become ppv. I'm not gonna sit here and guesstimate whether HBO is making or losing money off boxing but my guess would be that it isn't as profitable as it once was and they don't feel the need to keep dishing money out for it if the return isn't significant enough.

If they don't do a 24/7 and face off for Kovalev vs Ward, the end is near.

[deathofaclown]

It's just proof that you can say almost anything about anybody but say anything bad about gays and you're history.

The entertainment industry is run by shirt-lifters so Pac has just **** on his own doorstep.

[Bronx23]

HBO knows that Pac's drawing power has considerably dwindled and him fighting the likes of a Jessie Vargas isn't going to help bring in big numbers. Crawford was available and Arum chose not to make that fight. So now as a fan I choose not to support a fight that I have no interest in seeing!

Looks like the year is going to end with me dishing out for only 1 ppv. Kov/Ward! Keep up the good work boxing! At this rate, within 2yrs you'll be solely on some obscure cable channel that nobody knows about while UFC continues to kick azz!

While I agree with you 100% that Jessie Vargas isn't gonna bring in #s, let's not kid ourselves and act like a fight with Crawford would do much better. Both fights would flop because casuals don't know vargas or Crawford. Though Crawford woulda been the better fight it doesn't mean anything if casuals don't know who the hell is.