Comments Thread For: HBO Sports Head Not Concerned With Top Rank Stars Leaving

[Gillie]

Remember in the early to mid 2000's when you would see a page in ring magazine that would show Lennox Lewis, De la Hoya, pretty boy Floyd, with Roy Jones in the middle and the tag line "The best fighters fight here"? How times have changed.

[NEETzsche]

No I'm just saying because of the tr ppvs. Like the Valdez one. Hbo wasn't gonna pay for that crap

The card that was proposed to them was Valdez vs Marriaga with Ramirez vs Hart in support. That's easily good enough for a regular HBO show. They just don't have the budget any more

[aboutfkntime]

bye bye hbo

oh dear..... how sad..... never mind

[Pigeons]

That's a quote from the article, but not from Nelson.

Frankly, both the Rafael ESPN article and this BoxingScene article based off the ESPN article, are more or less nothing burgers...with one tiny little quote from Peter Nelson that says:



This is what Rafael then wrote:



BoxingScene changed the wording oh so closely to come up with this....

I see. Still, K2 has Golovkin and Gonzalez. Main Events has Kovalev and I guess Barrera. RNS is on life support.

Assuming RNS folds, which is not a given but who knows, HBO would be left with GBP, Golovkin, Gonzalez, Kovalev, Barrera. But honestly, I don't think HBO cares. It matters to us boxing fans, but I'm not sure how much boxing matters to HBO anymore.

[rickJen]

Why would they be concerned? Boxing is just some kind of an overhead to HBO.

[Baltimore]

Well... he probably should be concerned

Sounds like its his job to be

Seriously, how could he not be concerned that stars are leaving the network? I understand he's not gonna come out and admit it but in private I'm hoping this is a big concern for him, otherwise he's in the wrong job.

[Deevel916]

I can give 2 sheetz. Gone are the days of megafights where everyone was hyped weeks/months prior.

Boxing's biggest star at the moment (Canelo) doesnt even speak English. The perceived pfp#1 Andre Ward has the personality of a rock. Who else is there that can capture the fans the way a Tyson, Floyd, Pac, Oscar, etc did? You have Deontay at HW but he's not active enough nor is there much competition in the HW class to create mega buzz unless he fights Wlad or Joshua overseas.

Nowadays you can catch the fight on YouTube just hours after it airs.

[downklown]

HBO will pull a rabbit out of their hat by doing business with Haymon again.

The biggest fight of 2017 on HBO featured a Haymon fighter, Julio Ceasar Chavez Jr.

The biggest fight of 2016 on HBO featured a Haymon fighter, Amir Khan.

The biggest fight of 2015 on HBO featured a Haymon fighter, Mayweather.

Haymon always gets his fighters the biggest contracts regardless of network.
Him working with HBO is nothing new.

The only fighter they have that can do 175k+ PPV's is Canelo. Sad to say, but, HBO boxing is officially dead.

[duwdu]

The biggest fight of 2017 on HBO featured a Haymon fighter, Julio Ceasar Chavez Jr.

The biggest fight of 2016 on HBO featured a Haymon fighter, Amir Khan.

The biggest fight of 2015 on HBO featured a Haymon fighter, Mayweather.

Haymon always gets his fighters the biggest contracts regardless of network.
Him working with HBO is nothing new.

The only fighter they have that can do 175k+ PPV's is Canelo. Sad to say, but, HBO boxing is officially dead.

Well said ; I don't think anyone could have put it any better.

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[ShoulderRoll]

HBO should just do more business with Al Haymon.

That would easily replace any star power that was lost with the exit of Top Rank's fighters.