Comments Thread For: Showtime Sports Prez To White: We Can't Release Fake Numbers!

[SkillspayBills]

Dana sounds like a child and Espinoza sounds like an adult. Go figure. Hopefully this childishness gets resolved because beefing between promoters does nothing but hurt the sport.

[IronDanHamza]

I'm pretty sure when UFC release their PPV numbers it is for America and not worldwide.

Shame thing here from Showtime. They aren't just going to release the "worldwide" numbers and imply it is the American numbers like every other time anyone has released numbers.

[vaborikua2014]

I wonder how much maypac did on international numbers

[Dr.Cool]

Dana White is one of the ******est, greediest, piece of **** on this planet.

He should fit right in as a boxing promoter. Don King, Bob Arum, Dana White. Same old story just a different actor.

[Deus]

Always liked Dana White as he's done a good job with the UFC but this whole 'beef' with Showtime is just idiotic. It is certainly not the most sensible thing to cause such furore with Showtime when Dana is just trying to get into boxing now.

[gioberi]

This corrupted fooking weasel that ran showboxing to the ground has to shut the **** up.

[N/A]

Always liked Dana White as he's done a good job with the UFC but this whole 'beef' with Showtime is just idiotic. It is certainly not the most sensible thing to cause such furore with Showtime when Dana is just trying to get into boxing now.

What if he wants to get Haymon to leave Showtime and bring his stable to UFC's new TV home?

[OnePunch]

Stop supporting the smaller factions to force everyone under one umbrella. Then you'll get the fights you want.

Impossible. There is not a big enough umbrella to handle the 15,000+ active pro fighters across the globe.

[N/A]

Impossible. There is not a big enough umbrella to handle the 15,000+ active pro fighters across the globe.

And the NBA can't handle all active basketball players, so there are still leagues all around the world, but it's the clear top level league in the US.

If there's only one place to go for top level money, the fights the fans want to see are far more likely to happen. Arum has hung on as long as he has by overpaying a few top guys and protecting them as much as possible. It's smart business, but boxing fans would still benefit from him losing his grip, just as fans benefited from King losing his grip.

Crawford and Lomachenko are great fighters. Recognizing the WBO allows Bob to essentially own his own world title, hide his fighters behind it, and avoid making the match-ups fans want to see the most.

Just because one dominant "league" would make boxing more popular in this country and would serve boxing fans better doesn't mean that league has to support 15,000 fighters. Throw Crawford, Lomachenko and Canelo into Haymon's universe and ESPN/HBO become irrelevant very fast.

Doesn't mean Asia doesn't still dominate the smaller weight classes, doesn't mean there's not still big time boxing in Europe, doesn't mean there aren't smaller US promoters developing young fighters, just means US boxing fans can logically follow one league like they would with any other sport.

[Lomadeaux]

White wants to get into boxing because he saw the $$$. He saw the big time. Much, much, much different currency levels than MMA. What he doesn't have is the experience. He thinks it'll be easy doing business like with the fighters in UFC.