Comments Thread For: Top Rank To Keep Lomachenko and Others More Active

[Scipio2009]

Espinoza should do the same and make PBC fighters active, instead of spending huge CBS money on hundreds of millions dollars on Mayweather's guarantee and promoting a freak show, then end up being left with nothing; just like the rest of 2015 after the superfight where they're unable to produce meaningful fights. You'd think they went bankrupt. It all went into Mayweather's pockets.

Showtime will more than cover any money owed to Mayweather, plus make money on their own anyway; should probably stop pocket-watching, lol.

Look at the year that Showtime has had so far, and look to have planned for the rest of the year. 9 big Showtime Championship Boxing shows, three major Showtime International fights, an exciting ShoBox slate of cards, the Mayweather-Mcgregor PPV, the likely return of Deontay Wilder in October/November, Anthony Joshua's next fight, and likely another 3-4 Showtime Championship Boxing shows to close out the year.

PBC will continue to push their fights (largely on Fox/FS1), but to argue that Showtime watering down what they're open to airing (on a schedule that is already likely to end up with 15 Showtime Championship Boxing shows before the year is or) is ridiculous.

[Scipio2009]

Tank has them shaking in their sweet little boots already.

Tank's not the finished product just yet, but he's aggressive, seems to have one-punch power at 130lbs, and walks into any negotiation with money backing him (Floyd, Showtime, MGM Resorts for their Maryland casino, Under Armour, etc).

Arum rarely ever entertains any fight where he'd have to bend to someone else's terms or short his own money.

[Teetotaler]

Not a bad idea for a guu with less than ten fights

[al-Xander]

Showtime will more than cover any money owed to Mayweather, plus make money on their own anyway; should probably stop pocket-watching, lol.

Look at the year that Showtime has had so far, and look to have planned for the rest of the year. 9 big Showtime Championship Boxing shows, three major Showtime International fights, an exciting ShoBox slate of cards, the Mayweather-Mcgregor PPV, the likely return of Deontay Wilder in October/November, Anthony Joshua's next fight, and likely another 3-4 Showtime Championship Boxing shows to close out the year.

PBC will continue to push their fights (largely on Fox/FS1), but to argue that Showtime watering down what they're open to airing (on a schedule that is already likely to end up with 15 Showtime Championship Boxing shows before the year is or) is ridiculous.

It's not hard to please boxing fans. Give them 2 - 4 high profile fights a year and they'll say, "Boxing is baack doe!" Make Thurman fight once a year and they'll say, "Who says boxing is dead?"

Do you think it's good for the sport when fighters fight once a year? Thurman, Porter, Peterson, Berto, Stevenson, Lara, Quillin, Jacobs, Degale, Charlo 2, Andrade, Williams, Garcia is heading that way. It's terrible.

Haymon needs to let these people go. They're rotting right now.

[John Locke]

That's great for boxing, hopefully uncle Al has something similar in the works for his fighters.

[HI-TECH Boxing]

Yeah Lomachenko should be fighting 3-4 times a year.
He should fight 4 times this year because of this pointless Marriaga fight.

I say beat Marriaga in August. Then fight in late September/ early October against Rigo or somebody, but I really want to see Rigo ended already. I think Rigo is all talk. I don't believe anything him or his team say.

Then end the year with either Salido or Corrales.
Berchelt will have a hometown fight to end the year, and he deserves it, so the Loma fight isn't realistic for this year. That will most likely have to wait for 2018.

Lomachenko-Marriaga August 5th
Lomachenko-Corrales September/October
Lomachenko-Salido December

Yeah, there is no way that's happening.

[Scipio2009]

It's not hard to please boxing fans. Give them 2 - 4 high profile fights a year and they'll say, "Boxing is baack doe!" Make Thurman fight once a year and they'll say, "Who says boxing is dead?"

Do you think it's good for the sport when fighters fight once a year? Thurman, Porter, Peterson, Berto, Stevenson, Lara, Quillin, Jacobs, Degale, Charlo 2, Andrade, Williams, Garcia is heading that way. It's terrible.

Haymon needs to let these people go. They're rotting right now.

Every time that Keith Thurman has fought since the beginning of the PBC effort, he's been put in legit fights.

Danny Garcia and Shawn Porter are on the cusp of the process getting going for them to fight. Benevidez vs Dirrell has just been announced. Brandon Rios and Victor Ortiz are set for tune-ups, but their next big fight will likely be against each other on Fox.

The word that was sent out was that everyone would doubt everyone in big fights, and Haymon has largely kept to that.

Quality over quantity is just fine with me (and likely fine for the fighters too, as long as they're committed to keeping fit in the mean time between fights).

Activity for activity's sake helps few people (young prospects, still figuring out their craft, would likely benefit from having a fight, against whatever opponent, every 6 to 8 weeks, but that slows once the opposition gets more serious).

[TheCell8]

Yeah Lomachenko should be fighting 3-4 times a year.
He should fight 4 times this year because of this pointless Marriaga fight.

I say beat Marriaga in August. Then fight in late September/ early October against Rigo or somebody, but I really want to see Rigo ended already. I think Rigo is all talk. I don't believe anything him or his team say.

Then end the year with either Salido or Corrales.
Berchelt will have a hometown fight to end the year, and he deserves it, so the Loma fight isn't realistic for this year. That will most likely have to wait for 2018.

Lomachenko-Marriaga August 5th
Lomachenko-Corrales September/October
Lomachenko-Salido December

Yeah, there is no way that's happening.

Most likely is one more fight with Salido in December.

[Baltimore]

Great news!

The more boxing, the better!

[wlad1111]

The most ironic thing about your list is that the only fight I see even being actually pursued by Bob Arum is the Corrales fight (and even that one is put into doubt after Corrales put on 20lbs post weigh-in); Berchelt vs Corrales seems the fight that has HBO's interest anyway.

Get ready for "bum of the quarter" fights for Lomachenko, lol

I hope you are wrong