Comments Thread For: Duva Discusses Competing Cards March 3 at MSG Theater, Barclays

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

It's unfortunate, but there's nothing she can do about it. That's the approach promoter Kathy Duva is taking to the likely reality that her company's card March 3 in The Theater at Madison Square Garden will have competition in New York City that night. Another show featuring a main event between WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and Cuban contender Luis Ortiz is expected to take place March 3 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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[Sosay]

Great, hopefully I can watch
Barrera vs Bivol then switch over to Wilder vs Ortiz.

[Boxnation fan]

Great, hopefully I can watch
Barrera vs Bivol then switch over to Wilder vs Ortiz.

Agreed.

No one cares about the Kovalev fight.

[Mammoth]

I'll watch two bums fight as long as it's televised. I'll cry around about it but I'll watch that shit so I always get annoyed by counter programming.

[nycsmooth]

There are enough seats for everyone shouldn't be a problem but I will watch the Kovalev fight.. I don't watch heavyweights...

[NC Uppercut]

Thank God for DVR....😅

[Bronx2245]

Great, hopefully I can watch
Barrera vs Bivol then switch over to Wilder vs Ortiz.

Sounds like a plan! DVR is the best!

[Bronx2245]

December 31, 2017:

I asked Bob Arum, in the business since 1966, about this practice, about the cablers scheduling on the same night. Could he offer some clarity on why programmers do this, from his point of view?

“Ego? I have no ****ing idea. It is absolute ******ity,” Arum told me. “Once boxing again becomes vigorous occasionally there will be dueling dates, because there are only so many dates on the calendar, but that’s not the case now. Peter Nelson at HBO deliberately counter programmed us twice after we announced dates,” Arum declared.

“I think now Showtime’s Stephen Espinoza is countering Nelson, and that’s not good for either of them. Between the two of those channels there’s not a hell of lot of watchers! They are fragmenting a small audience. Showtime and HBO have small audiences. It hardly affected us, with the big mega-phone, with ESPN. (Arum is referring to the night of Dec. 9, when HBO had an Orland Salido v Mickey Roman topped offering the same night as ESPN’s Top Rank offering, with a Vasyl Lomachenko v. Guillermo Rigondeaux mainer. The ESPN show unfolded in NY, the HBO one in Cali.)

“HBO and Showtime are not sports networks, they have much smaller megaphones but they do have great entertainment, but (having counter-programming dueling dates) makes for a squeaky megaphone. The press is not robust. What the **** are they doing counter programming for?”

I reached out to the HBO people to ask about their take on counter programming and to Showtime, and neither outlet responded with material for an on the record explanation. I also asked the New York State Athletic Commission about the March 3 situation, which will have NYSAC stretched thin, having to staff events in Brooklyn and Manhattan. We will get back to you on that, a spokesman told me.

https://www.badlefthook.com/2017/12/31/16834922/hbo-showtime-heading-for-boxing-showdown-on-march-3

[Mammoth]

December 31, 2017:

I asked Bob Arum, in the business since 1966, about this practice, about the cablers scheduling on the same night. Could he offer some clarity on why programmers do this, from his point of view?

“Ego? I have no ****ing idea. It is absolute ******ity,” Arum told me. “Once boxing again becomes vigorous occasionally there will be dueling dates, because there are only so many dates on the calendar, but that’s not the case now. Peter Nelson at HBO deliberately counter programmed us twice after we announced dates,” Arum declared.

“I think now Showtime’s Stephen Espinoza is countering Nelson, and that’s not good for either of them. Between the two of those channels there’s not a hell of lot of watchers! They are fragmenting a small audience. Showtime and HBO have small audiences. It hardly affected us, with the big mega-phone, with ESPN. (Arum is referring to the night of Dec. 9, when HBO had an Orland Salido v Mickey Roman topped offering the same night as ESPN’s Top Rank offering, with a Vasyl Lomachenko v. Guillermo Rigondeaux mainer. The ESPN show unfolded in NY, the HBO one in Cali.)

“HBO and Showtime are not sports networks, they have much smaller megaphones but they do have great entertainment, but (having counter-programming dueling dates) makes for a squeaky megaphone. The press is not robust. What the **** are they doing counter programming for?”

I reached out to the HBO people to ask about their take on counter programming and to Showtime, and neither outlet responded with material for an on the record explanation. I also asked the New York State Athletic Commission about the March 3 situation, which will have NYSAC stretched thin, having to staff events in Brooklyn and Manhattan. We will get back to you on that, a spokesman told me.

https://www.badlefthook.com/2017/12/...own-on-march-3

Well said, Bob....

[german12johnson]

Undercard at garden better main event at Barclays better kovalev sucks