Comments Thread For: Spike's TV Deal With Premier Boxing Champions Has Ended

[jdp28tx]

PBC haters must be getting paid by GBP, TR or RNS just like these dumb journalists. Boxing is Boxing regardless of channel. Why pick and choose alliances.
PBC looks out for the well being for its fighters (unlike TR and all of their fighters OR GBP and everyone not named Canelo [Francisco Vargas just lost 25 yrs of life last 2 yrs]. Why hate on that.

FS1 and Bounce consistently match undefeated fighters against each other.

If it wasn't for PBC there wouldn't have been no boxing this yr. at all.

Jack v Degale card= excellent
Turman v Garcia card =excellent
Wilder v Washington card = excellent
Broner v granados card = excellent

When PBC closed up shop last yr. You would've thought these dum bloggers and reporters would stop complaining about matchups. There was no boxing last yr so nothing to cry about and no income coming in

Law of boxing= fighters have to be built up. Name fighters can't fight name fighters every fight. DEAL WITH IT. In the old days, fighters didn't fight big names every fight. UFC don't fight name guys all the time either.

This why MMA can claim superiority, no idiot journalists or fans destroying their own sport constantly with biased reporting and picking sides.The more you bash your sport the less you get paid, less people watch and less boxing...

Haymon was gonna lock down the industry but TR, GBP, ME, RNS all colluded and pulled lawsuits out they ass like b*tches for stuff that they do on worse levels and paid journalists off

RNS has a fight contract with BET and put no fights, just to stop Haymon from getting that deal. HAYMON let go of ESPN (Settlement with TR called for ESPN to be released after TR sued after JCC JR and Mikey Garcia bounced for Haymon) and NBC due to lawsuits.



Boxing is watched mostly by the colored folks of the world and look how racist Hispanics, Asians etc are towards a black man (AL Haymon). NEWS FLASH: The powers that be don't look like you and will never accept you. Might as well come together

Wow, what a babbling, incomprehensible, tortured logic this post is.

[True-Boxing-Fan]

My point is that ESPN has no interest in paying for boxing, so PBC has no interest in continuing the relationship with ESPN. The fact that ESPN2 will be receiving low level Golden Boy cards for free is irrelevant.




Because PBC saw no point in picking up the 2017 option if they know for a fact that no matter what they do, ESPN will not be paying for boxing in 2018. The point of the time buys was to prove what kind of ratings PBC could do and convince networks to pay for them. Fox is willing to pay. CBS is willing to pay. ESPN is not. So why waste any money on additional ESPN time buys?




Golden Boy was willing to give shows away for free. PBC is getting ready to convert to paid only shows in 2018, so if ESPN wasn't willing to pay, it was time to cut ties. There may still be a few more PBC shows on ESPN later in the year. The two sides are arguing about who owes what for when as some dates were pushed back. But the bottom line is that ESPN is having financial problems, has no interest in paying for boxing, so PBC wants to minimize/avoid additional payments to ESPN.




Showtime is PBC's primary partner and always has been. Haymon put his fighters on NBC & ESPN a few times. Couldn't get those networks to bite. Put his fighters on Fox a few times and it looks like Fox will bite.

Haymon has more power than he's ever had and more world champions than he's ever had. He has more control at Showtime than he's ever had and a bigger budget at Showtime than he's ever had.

How can PBC be a failure when Haymon is sitting in a much better situation today than he was before PBC launched? Showtime is now the #1 network for boxing and Haymon gets almost their entire budget to play with.

So much for free boxing and changing the game and bringing boxing back to the mainstream.

What really has changed in boxing?

[sicko]

That is unfortunate because I liked Spike Coverage but things to be narrowing down to CBS/Showtime and Fox/Fox Sports. Basically it all depends on what happens with UFC Next Year honestly. If Fox loses the UFC which many expect they will then maybe PBC slides in as program replacement I guess we will just have to wait and see but yeah the contracts are starting to run out so either networks will choose to invest into it or pass on it

MMA is the better investment in the States right now, Bellator draws way better and more consistent ratings!

[jdp28tx]

I never understood why pbc tried so many networks.
They should have stuck with one network, once a week or two weeks, same time.
Hopefully they get that now and do it with fox sports.

Same channel, same time, every week.

This answer to your question as to why Haymon put PBC on so may networks is because he was trying to monopolize the sport by locking out all all other promoters from getting tv deals. That is the only explanation for doing such an insane plan. ESPN, FOX, Fox Sports1, Bounce, CBS, NBC, Showtime, Spike. Haymon was just trying to cuttoff access to tv for other promoters. So he was making an educated guess on which networks boxing would possibly go to. Instead of putting on great competitive fights on a few channels and beating his competition with a better product Haymon, instead used his millions to try and gain control over the entire sport (which logically can't be done) that explains the multiple channels, the overpaying fighters purses, sitting on venues to block use by other promoters, stealing fighters from golden boy using that douche bag Schaefer, blocking his fighters from using other promoters, trying to cut out the sanctioning bodies.

But, as many of us said 2 yrs ago his plan was going to fail and it failed spectacularly. So spectacularly that he has probably set boxing back 10-15yrs. For some reason people think just because Haymon went to Harvard that made him a genius, boy were they wrong.

[jdp28tx]

So much for free boxing and changing the game and bringing boxing back to the mainstream.

What really has changed in boxing?

Haymon did change boxing, but not for the better. He has made sure good young fighters only fight once per year. He has made good young fighters and older fighters into divas in which they will not fight anyone with a pulse unless they are compensated outrageous amounts of money, he has probably made sure not one network will put boxing regularly on their channel again for 10-15yrs, and he has ruined most of his stables careers. Most of his fighters will become known as the lost generation of boxers (the list is long), because he has no money to pay them to fight.

[True-Boxing-Fan]

Haymon did change boxing, but not for the better. He has made sure good young fighters only fight once per year. He has made good young fighters and older fighters into divas in which they will not fight anyone with a pulse unless they are compensated outrageous amounts of money, he has probably made sure not one network will put boxing regularly on their channel again for 10-15yrs, and he has ruined most of his stables careers. Most of his fighters will become known as the lost generation of boxers (the list is long), because he has no money to pay them to fight.

Lol. I agree with what you say.

Don't be so negative, Haymon is a black man, a ****** lover, but still a black man.

[Kigali]

Haymon did change boxing, but not for the better. He has made sure good young fighters only fight once per year. He has made good young fighters and older fighters into divas in which they will not fight anyone with a pulse unless they are compensated outrageous amounts of money, he has probably made sure not one network will put boxing regularly on their channel again for 10-15yrs, and he has ruined most of his stables careers. Most of his fighters will become known as the lost generation of boxers (the list is long), because he has no money to pay them to fight.

Oscar and Arum too.

Walters for example

Oscar has young fighters that haven't fought in over 2 years.

[Kigali]

Lol. I agree with what you say.

Don't be so negative, Haymon is a black man, a ****** lover, but still a black man.

Don't you be so negative.



Oscar IS a ******.....a mexican....and a real life ******...not a word about him.

I wonder why???

[Kigali]

That is unfortunate because I liked Spike Coverage but things to be narrowing down to CBS/Showtime and Fox/Fox Sports. Basically it all depends on what happens with UFC Next Year honestly. If Fox loses the UFC which many expect they will then maybe PBC slides in as program replacement I guess we will just have to wait and see but yeah the contracts are starting to run out so either networks will choose to invest into it or pass on it

MMA is the better investment in the States right now, Bellator draws way better and more consistent ratings!

You're a fool.

MMA's biggest star is trying to get a boxing license....and others are following.

I don't see boxing's biggest stars moving over to MMA.

Think before you type next time.

[True-Boxing-Fan]

Don't you be so negative.



Oscar IS a ******.....a mexican....and a real life ******...not a word about him.

I wonder why???

Don't change the subject you **** stain loser. How's life been treating you, huh **** stain.

Your 10,000 plus post in less than 10 months speaks on you being a true losers loser. Not only are you a loser but you don't know **** about boxing and one of your heros, Haymon, is a ****** lover. lol lol lol