Comments Thread For: Top Rank, ESPN Announce Multi-Year Exclusive Deal

[nickp91]

Not so great news for HBO

[Steven Mccowan]

HBO is ****ed to be honest. If GGG beats canelo to apulo they have no cash cow. Cotto retires at the end of the year and GBP has no one with a big future

true but exciting fighters come out of nowhere and excite fans at times. Plus gbp has espn, and other shows where they trying to build some ppl up as well. Im sure itll be fine

[hectari]

How was bob arum,able to land an exclusive network deal before al haymon?

This was al haymons goal to buy oit timeslots on various networks as an audition to see if one network would offer him a home for a exclusive deal like ufc did with fox, its been years, and arum was able to land one with the quickness.

[USMCer]

Is that "exclusive" both ways?

[rickJen]

Top Rank is going where it's good at.
Building up superstars.

[Steven Mccowan]

I wonder what all the idiots who doubted there was a deal will have to say the usual clowns like scipio hahaha

Lol i tried telling those handful of morons that it wasnt a time buy. I heard it myself from espn employee.
But they are hard headed and for some reason want boxing as a whole to fail. But i know what they will start saying collectively. "They learned this off haymon" etc haha. Weirdos

[hectari]

Arum weasels in amazing double dipping Arum almost 90 outsmarts everyone?

Ill give him that he was able to land an exclusive tv deal so fast lol, while haymon is still spending millions buying out timeslots and no offers yet for exclusivity. Arum still a top dog hustler.

[sicko]

As Expected! That is great new for the sport of boxing IN GENERAL! The more boxing the better for ALL PROMOTIONS no just Arum. Same thing I said about PBC, that with them on Network TV that opened the door to this no matter how much people will try to deny it. Could also be why Arum is open to making Loma vs Rigo now, ESPN probably made the call for this one!

ESPN paying money so I'm assuming they will do better with the Coverage and make Boxing more of a Priority and not treat it like a Side Baby!

Based on all the exclusives Fox Sports received leading up to this Mayweather vs McGregor fight, I think PBC and a deal with Fox/FS1 is likely NEXT! So no BOXING IS NOT DEAD I think coming back to Network TV and Basic Cable will pump life back into it with Casuals!

So cheers to all of Boxing
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[bonefide]

well the king is still showtime, but nr 2 is between espn and fs1.

[bonefide]

strange then that arum made this move after suing to get info and then making a deal after hbo cut budgets after floyd left