Comments Thread For: Why Arum Turned Down HBO PPV To Handle Pacquiao-Vargas Himself

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The math made perfect sense to a Harvard-educated man who has made more millions than anyone knows promoting boxing over parts of the past six decades.

That encapsulates why Bob Arum decided to turn down HBO Pay-Per-View's offer to televise the four-fight Manny Pacquiao-Jessie Vargas show from UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center on November 5. Arum's company, Top Rank Inc., is handling all distribution and advertising for the show, functions typically executed by HBO Sports for its 7.5-percent-per-event fee.
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[MasterPlan]

The promotion hasn't been good. The fight is next week and I've only seen one commercial for it.

[HanzGruber]

Arum turned down HBO? Lol no more like HBO didn't want this shlt. Who is he kidding

[hectari]

Very good insight from bob arum on the dealings with tv newtworks.

One thing is for sure old man bob is at least trying to market boxing with the times, other promoters are still doing outdated methods.

The fight will do around 150 thousand ppv buys, but it will be exciting and has a great undercard.

[New England]

arum is a snake and this article needs to be taken with a grain of salt, but it's definitely a step up from the typical crap on bscene. interesting, to say the least.


we all know damn well HBO wouldn't touch this fight with a ten foot pole, but it was interesting to hear arum's remarks on how they basically finance these fights.


it doesn't sound like arum and TR have a ton of cash on hand. they're a small company in the context of a fight that generated close to a billion in revenue and was betwen the two highest paid athletes on the planet that year. very interesting article. arum is llying through his teeth, per usual, but you can still find some very interesting stuff.



this fight is going to flop. i hope they've kept their costs low, or else they're going to get their butts handed to them. i literally thought it was saturday .


and no, i seriously doubt i'll buy it. didn't buy manny vs algieri, floyd vs berto. same type of fight, basically. garbage.

[Fetta]

Because they didnt give you another choice

[PittyPat]

Pacquiao was last on a Top Rank PPV against Larios, right?

[The Big Dunn]

Between Manny's performance in the Floyd fight and his subsequent comments regarding gays, its not hard to understand why HBO would not want to be working with Manny/TR on this fight.

The fight on paper is not the kind of fight people seem interested in. The other fights may be good but despite what morons on NSB have posted fans buy the PPV for the headline fight. Its not a PPV worthy fight.

TR must see some long term benefit for doing the fight by themselves. If as rumored it means Manny's deal with HBO is over, the long term payoff could be fights against a guy like Broner that leads to a rematch with Floyd.

I will not be ordering this fight.

[Canelo and GGG]

Pacquiao was last on a Top Rank PPV against Larios, right?

It was vs Solis and it was only 120k PPV i think.

[BoliviaChiLEsp]

Pacquiao was last on a Top Rank PPV against Larios, right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_Pacquiao_vs._Óscar_Larios

Wikipedia says that it was broadcasted by HBO PPV alongside other networks.