Comments Thread For: U.S. TV for 'World Boxing Super Series' in Play, Says Schaefer

[MasterPlan]

Bet it goes to NBC and NBC SN.

[Eff Pandas]

Starting to get excited about this Tournament! Nothing but respect to all the Top Cruiserweight signing up! Have to favor Usyk right now but Yunier Dorticos is a major sleeper but also Huck and Wlodarczyk EXPERIENCE could play a factor as well.

Are they just going with those 6 or they're looking to add more guys to jump in? Mike Perez, Andrew Tabiti would be nice if those guys are willing. Not sure if Tabiti is ready for this level of Competition though!

If I was Tabiti I'd stay out at this point. This is a tough field. And it'll be 8 guys in each weight division so yea 2 more to go.

Since the top seeds get to pick who they fight, I'm guessing the way the seeding and the matchups will work is like this:

1. Usyk vs. 8. Wlod
2. Briedis vs. 7. Huck
3. Gassiev vs. 6. Kudryashpv
4. Dorticos vs. 5. Glowacki

The fighters ultimately pick the brackets. I assume Usyk will be the #1 seed so he'll pick his opponent from the 4 unranked fighters. Then the #2 guy picks. Then the #3 guy picks. And the last two are matched up & I'd assume they will be bracketed up to fight the winner of Usyk & whoever he picked.

Bet it goes to NBC and NBC SN.

NBC would be cool. My assumption is it'll be on Showtime, but the wider the reach of whoever airs it the better so I'm hoping I'm wrong.

[TheCell8]

The fighters ultimately pick the brackets. I assume Usyk will be the #1 seed so he'll pick his opponent from the 4 unranked fighters. Then the #2 guy picks. Then the #3 guy picks. And the last two are matched up & I'd assume they will be bracketed up to fight the winner of Usyk & whoever he picked.

That's who I think they'll pick though. If Usyk plays it smart he'll take Wlod. Who has gone through a lot of wars and has a lot of mileage on him. Probably the worst guy there.

Then I think Briedis will be no.2, he'll look to rematch Huck, and why not? He beat him easily the first time and Huck is past his prime.

Gassiev will be third and I think he'll take either Kudryashov or Glowacki. Seeing as how Kudryashov is a fellow Russian, he could go with Glowacki.

I'm not sure where Dorticos would rank. He's ranked 9th by TBRB but he's now been upgraded to WBA champ with Shumenov announcing his retirement. I assume he'll get the 4th spot just by being a champ, and if that's the case he'll get whoever is left.

[MasterPlan]

If I was Tabiti I'd stay out at this point. This is a tough field. And it'll be 8 guys in each weight division so yea 2 more to go.



The fighters ultimately pick the brackets. I assume Usyk will be the #1 seed so he'll pick his opponent from the 4 unranked fighters. Then the #2 guy picks. Then the #3 guy picks. And the last two are matched up & I'd assume they will be bracketed up to fight the winner of Usyk & whoever he picked.



NBC would be cool. My assumption is it'll be on Showtime, but the wider the reach of whoever airs it the better so I'm hoping I'm wrong.

I remember Schafer saying he's working on a deal, seperate from PBC. Showtime/CBS is PBC. NBC is getting away from PBC once those 2-3 remaining dates in the fall are done with.

[Boxing Logic]

Dont you have it wrong? When schaefer wss working for GBP, he delivered really good fights and showtime wss about to catch up to hbo.
The mismatches started, when he was seperated from GBP and subsequently barred from being involved with boxing. Schaefer is one of the few promotors who still knows how to promote.

No I think you have nostalgia glasses on. He made Garcia-Matthysse a year late, Broner-Maidana only because they thought Maidana was too slow to do anything with Broner, and Canelo-Floyd only because it was such a big PPV fight and Canelo was willing to drain to 152. Other than that I can barely remember any good fight he made, and I just remember mismatch after mismatch after mismatch. Gary Russell Jr. went like 10 fights in a row fighting TBA's under Schaefer. So did Wilder. So did almost every Schaefer/Haymon boxer I can remember.

Of course, that all continued even after he left, so maybe that was always Al's decision, not his. Wilder still hasn't fought anyone and GRJ hasn't either since the Lomachenko loss, so it's hard to blame Schaefer. But the matchups under him were NOT good at all. Showtime had one decent year under him and a bunch of awful ones, but even that one year is extremely overrated simply because people remember Maidana-Broner at the end of the year and that colors their perception on an otherwise ****ty year.

[p4ptbe]

Bet it goes to NBC and NBC SN.

showtime president was at the first press conference so it go on showtime or cbs sports as well...

[R-C]

If I'm understanding this correctly, we will have an undisputed champion at the end of the CW tourney?

[hitking]

What's the time table on when this thing is supposed to end? I ask because with Ward expressing interest in fighting at cruiserweight, the winner would clearly be a very attractive opponent. I doubt Ward would wanna enter the tourney. But I know he'll be keeping an eye on the results.

[IMDAZED]

I remember Schafer saying he's working on a deal, seperate from PBC. Showtime/CBS is PBC. NBC is getting away from PBC once those 2-3 remaining dates in the fall are done with.

Probably goes on Showtime.

[BWC]

If I was Tabiti I'd stay out at this point. This is a tough field. And it'll be 8 guys in each weight division so yea 2 more to go.



The fighters ultimately pick the brackets. I assume Usyk will be the #1 seed so he'll pick his opponent from the 4 unranked fighters. Then the #2 guy picks. Then the #3 guy picks. And the last two are matched up & I'd assume they will be bracketed up to fight the winner of Usyk & whoever he picked.



NBC would be cool. My assumption is it'll be on Showtime, but the wider the reach of whoever airs it the better so I'm hoping I'm wrong.

Man if Schaefer can lock down NBC then that's all the networks covered. PBC - CBS, FOX/FS1, RS-NBC, TR-ESPN/ABC