HBO cannot compete... budget for 2017 looking at $10 million

[A.K]

This has nothing to do with talent,,,, we are talking about drawing power..

Winky vs Taylor on hbo drew more than Thurman-Garcia on network tv... just let that sink in

No it didn't but I'll also let it sink in that hbo was part of a regular dish, direct tv, and time Werner package back then.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Maybe right now but that's my point he's ahead of schedule, him vs mikey or Crawford would do well over 200.

At some point us as boxing fans need to start worrying about the best fights being made, I can show you google trends and loma is top 5.

I'm all for the best fighting the best,, that's what's wrong with boxing

[Sugar Adam Ali]

No it didn't but I'll also let it sink in that hbo was part of a regular dish, direct tv, and time Werner package back then.

Hbo has always been a premium channel

[A.K]

Hbo has always been a premium channel

Like I said boa it was all part of a package you can get as a whole back then

[snoopymiller]

Like I said boa it was all part of a package you can get as a whole back then

Uhhh no.

But the main point that guy is leaving out is that hbo has been a boxing centric channel for 30 years. Of course boxing fans in 2006 would gravitate towards there for a unification bout.

[A.K]

Uhhh no.

But the main point that guy is leaving out is that hbo has been a boxing centric channel for 30 years. Of course boxing fans in 2006 would gravitate towards there for a unification bout.

Man I got both showtime and hbo and have so since the 90s when my pops was heavy into the sport and hbo has never lost other than 2013 cause Floyd switched up and golden boy left briefly.

[HAMMER77777]

1979. holmes vs weaver. the major networks didnt want to buy a tune up.

HBO came in out of nowhere and practically stole the fight for 150k.

it was HBO's most watched program ever and HBO immediately started buying every fight they could.

Thanks. That explains it. I guess SHO soon followed suit.

[Nusky]

Pretty much so.

It's so clear that PBC, SHO/CBS, and Schaefers new tourney is the present and future of boxing.

All those times HBO allowed Lampley, merchant and others to **** on mayweather has come back to bite them in the ass. Their clear bitterness toward haymon, mayweather and everyone associated with them has backfired. They're only penny pinching with their boxing budget because they don't have many options and the fighters/promotional outfits they chose to align themselves with aren't producing intriguing fights.
Now, there's more to it than that but that was definitely the starting point of HBO boxing's drastic decline.

[al-Xander]

Alvarez, Golovkin, Lomachenko, Crawford, Pacquiao, etc. These are all HBO stars that would blow PBC/SHO out of the water. Don't even know what this thread is all about. There's no competition in terms of star power. Not even one in the current PBC stable is PPV material.

[original zero]

Alvarez, Golovkin, Lomachenko, Crawford, Pacquiao, etc. These are all HBO stars that would blow PBC/SHO out of the water. Don't even know what this thread is all about. There's no competition in terms of star power. Not even one in the current PBC stable is PPV material.

haymon is trying to kill PPV.