Comments Thread For: Arum Explains Why Ditching HBO For ESPN Was The Right Move

[Lester Tutor]

now watch all those racist scumbags like steve kimchi and dan rafael call this deal the best thing for boxing! Meanwhile pbc on fox and showtime and cbs is a bad thing somehow.....

Dan Rafael be like this when typing articles:

[BoxingJunkie]

Love him or hate him, but Bob is 100% right on this one. It's time to move away from both HBO & SHO Time.

[Scipio2009]

So who's actually going to be shown on HBO Boxing now that Top Rank isn't with them anymore? Just Ward, Kovalev, GGG & Canelo?

Ward is a TV free agent, and Golovkin has already seemed to make it clear that he's not long for the sport either.

If Top Rank really is done with HBO, and HBO's boxing budget continues the way it continues, HBO Boxing will become the default home of Golden Boy Promotions (rather than Arum's histerics, Golden Boy has made it clear that he's largely on ESPN2 to help build exposure for his young prospects; by the time the Tecate-sponsored deal is through, Oscar would have Canelo Alvarez and hopefully a handful of fighters to package for HBO).

[-Kev-]

Lol duh, what you think PBC was for Bob

It's what fans have been complaining about and saying all these years.

[p4ptbe]

Dan Rafael be like this when typing articles:

i remember when top rank put on that horrible card on TRU TV dan was live tweeting from arums mansion! he bashes pbc but was praising horrible tru tv on twitter! that shows the level of these peoples honesty and ethics

[Steven Mccowan]

pbc just put on a really good card on fox last night and also wilders last card on fox was full of action packed fights!

Yeah they did. Both were good cards! Loved them

[AdonisCreed]

Should have been promoting big fights on ESPN and Fox anyway. This is good news one of the main reasons for me having HBO was for boxing.

[Scipio2009]

Arum's TV deal with ESPN is already more successful than PBC. Haymon had the chance to bring back boxing to the masses via free TV but failed miserably through crappy match ups, multiple network deals (should've done one, like UFC and Arum) and inactive fighters.

PBC on the cusp of getting a pay deal with Fox/FS1 (6-10 Fox dates and 30 dates on FS1, per year) for Phase 2 of the venture).

We still have no idea if ESPN is cutting a check here, or if Bob Arum went into his pocket (or someone else's pocket) to set the stage for a Top Rank Boxing platform.

[Mammoth]

Arum's stable isn't good enough to pull it off

[Teetotaler]

spence himself did 6 million dumb lying pac"turd"! Danny vs thuman did 5 million plus also! Thurman vs porter did 4 million plus also! Wilder washignton did almost 3 million also lying bum hahahaha! Try better lies! You dirty politician lovers need better lies!

None of those fights were on espn though
Typical. I expected your reading comprehension to be bad jason