Rumor: Richard Shaeffer and Al Haymon returning to HBO?

[hectari]

This is the word on the street, what say you? any truth to this?

[rickJen]

As long as this horrible culture of fighters fighting once/per year is squashed.
I see no problem with it.

[MasterPlan]

This is the word on the street, what say you? any truth to this?

What street is this?

[BWC]

This is the word on the street, what say you? any truth to this?

Do you have any sort of link man?

[NC Uppercut]

Could quite possibly be a power move! They made there cake at Sho, so they peaked there....hbo will work it out , or drown!! Lol

[Boxing42]

Gimme the address pl0x. I wouldn't be surprised if thats whats going on because of jacobs and miller going to HBO and HBO needs to catch up BIG time vs SHOW time

[rickJen]

Don't know why this is even a remote possibility to others.
Showtime can't clearly provide more dates to a large PBC stable.

[Jsmooth9876]

Showtime puts on excellent cards and gets **** ratings. HBO puts on garbage for the most part and gets decent ratings.. Boxing is idiotic.. Who in their right mind would be spending money on this sport is beyond me. Good thing for you guys I'm not in charge of any of these networks lol

[BWC]

Don't know why this is even a remote possibility to others.
Showtime can't clearly provide more dates to a large PBC stable.

Will Schaeffer has his own, albeit small stable in Ringstar. Would these be PBC fights, Ringstar fights, or what?

[Scipio2009]

Showtime puts on excellent cards and gets **** ratings. HBO puts on garbage for the most part and gets decent ratings.. Boxing is idiotic.. Who in their right mind would be spending money on this sport is beyond me. Good thing for you guys I'm not in charge of any of these networks lol

You invest in the assets, and get the payoff down the line. Thurman-Porter and Thurman-Garcia delivered really good ratings for CBS (with the ad revenue likely not being shabby either). Depending on what you count, Showtime made something like $50m on Mayweather-McGregor.

Wilder-Joshua is in the cue for PPV (should easily put $10m into Showtime's coffers), there are easily a few really good fights to take to CBS (Thurman-Spence being a really big one, which might end up on PPV), but then you also have the folks, paying their $100-$150 per year, who have the channel almost solely to watch boxing.

Not the most glamorous business to be in, but if you know what you're doing, and you have the passion and see the value in the sport, there's money to be made in boxing.