Comments Thread For: HBO's Peter Nelson: We Have All-Action Fights on This Network

[boxingitis]

HBO still doing better than other networks. Yes Rigo and Loma is great, but that's only only one good fight. HBO had 4 weekends in a row with decent matches. Lemieux vs Saunders is good for HBO fight. I don't ser any great matches coming from Showtime.

[A.K]

the market for boxing in general has shrunk in america

and hbo viewing figures are comparatively even better than before i would guess

Hbo is losing a lot of subscribers since thrones won’t be back till 2019, I doubt their views will stay the same.

[Boxing Logic]

Reading Nelson's comments makes me feel like he's positioning himself to get into the haymon business. None of them have promotors. So they can work with promotors to make fights. Just a observation from these quotes.

Lol, interesting because I got the exact opposite impression. Everything he stated as being important to him and HBO is exactly the opposite of what Haymon is about.

"As I can attest with all these fighters [on the card], I have never had that problem with any of them. They have never turned down a fight. Those are the kind of fighters people want to watch. Those are the kind of fighters that make the fights people want to see. And those are the kind of fights that lead to bigger and better things for each of the fighters involved."

What he said is exactly right, and exactly what Al Haymon's PBC brand is missing. Fighters who never turn down a fight. Haymon fighters are constantly turning down fights. Danny Garcia just turned down Porter, who isn't even some P4P elite puncher. Stevenson... I could go on and on. Promoters who work with other promoters... Haymon almost never works with other promoters except ones on his payroll. Fights people want to see... Haymon avoids those for the most part because he seems to value keeping everyone's record clean, and having lots of average boxers at the expense of never creating any superstars (because to create a superstar, it requires sacrificing 5 other "top" boxers undefeated records. Haymon has been unwilling to do that).

[Shadoww702]

HBO still doing better than other networks. Yes Rigo and Loma is great, but that's only only one good fight. HBO had 4 weekends in a row with decent matches. Lemieux vs Saunders is good for HBO fight. I don't ser any great matches coming from Showtime.

I like Spence vs. Peterson better than C class Lemuix vs. C CLASS saunders. Guess which ones on Showtime.

Showtime is gonna have some AWESOME upcoming fights.

Garcia vs. Easter for their Belts

Mares vs. Santa Cruz mares much better with his new trainer.

Stevenson vs. Alaverez

[Shadoww702]

Lol, interesting because I got the exact opposite impression. Everything he stated as being important to him and HBO is exactly the opposite of what Haymon is about.



What he said is exactly right, and exactly what Al Haymon's PBC brand is missing. Fighters who never turn down a fight. Haymon fighters are constantly turning down fights. Danny Garcia just turned down Porter, who isn't even some P4P elite puncher. Stevenson... I could go on and on. Promoters who work with other promoters... Haymon almost never works with other promoters except ones on his payroll. Fights people want to see... Haymon avoids those for the most part because he seems to value keeping everyone's record clean, and having lots of average boxers at the expense of never creating any superstars (because to create a superstar, it requires sacrificing 5 other "top" boxers undefeated records. Haymon has been unwilling to do that).

He didnt care about Santa Cruz or Framptons clean records.

Or Garcia and Easters

Or Thurman and Danny

Dont be silly...

[Barristan]

TV Exec thinks he’s a promoter....HBO Boxing has been a joke for a while now and a lot of it has to do with this fool

[boxingitis]

I like Spence vs. Peterson better than C class Lemuix vs. C CLASS saunders. Guess which ones on Showtime.

Showtime is gonna have some AWESOME upcoming fights.

Garcia vs. Easter for their Belts

Mares vs. Santa Cruz mares much better with his new trainer.

Stevenson vs. Alaverez

Peterson sucks, he got a gift fight vs Feliz Diaz who Crawford destroyed. Peterson got destroyed by the Machine.
Spece should have been fighting Garcia or Porter.
Showtime should have tried to make Jacobs vs Charlo.

[Shadoww702]

Peterson sucks, he got a gift fight vs Feliz Diaz who Crawford destroyed. Peterson got destroyed by the Machine.
Spece should have been fighting Garcia or Porter.
Showtime should have tried to make Jacobs vs Charlo.

I still think hes better than Lemuix and Saunders.

Lemuix got folded by Ricky Rubio who SUKS compared to the machine. Lost to career 154 lber Alcine who was folded in 1 round by Angulo.

Saunders got a GIFT decision to some BUM named Akovov.

[Shadoww702]

Peterson 2 division champion.

Saunders crappy WBO Champion amd holding belt hostage.

Lemuix won a VACANT nelt and then lost ot his very next fight.

[GMAN SUPREME]

Peterson 2 division champion.

Saunders crappy WBO Champion amd holding belt hostage.

Lemuix won a VACANT nelt and then lost ot his very next fight.

lol peterson vs spence is a tune up fight. peterson will get slaughtered. bjs vs lemuiex is actually a 50/50 fight between two fighters with very different styles.