Comments Thread For: De La Hoya: Lomachenko Can Make More Versus Linares on HBO

[Shadoww702]

how do we know the hbo offer is better? The past few years hbo has paid the A side like 4-5 times more than the b side. This sounds like bs

Because ESPN cant guarantee that date and HBO CAN! PLUS they have the Canelo/GGG replay right before it and thats worth at LEAST 850k watchers alone!!!!

[Illmatic94]

whatever happened to "if two fighters want to fight each other the fight happens"... thats looking like some bullsht right now. linares and loma wanna fight but its a bunch of suits in the middle blocking the fight. ESPN, HBO. who cares. only loser is the fans.

[BigStomps]

At this point I don't care who's at fault. The fans get screwed over as usual while multi millionaires argue to see who will become even more rich. F the Canelo vs ggg replay and whatever lame fight golden boy throws on hbo on the 12th and F Loma vs whatever stiff arum finds for him on ESPN.

Quit crying fool!

[Dr.Cool]

Does Arum even realize what he says??? He is claiming that hbo made G-Canelo II on May 5th, just so they would show the replay a week later, because they knew Lomachenko was "wanting" to fight Linares on that day. The entire world has known since the decision of a draw was read that they were going to have a rematch on May 5, 2018. But apparently this was all done just to prevent Loma from facing Linares. Or maybe Arum is full of b.s. and has to drop names of good fighters to have anyone pay attention to his two fighters because he won't let them fight any of them.

For all the Haymon hating, Arum c*cksuc*ing idiots, tell us how Arum always makes the big fights and will work with anyone. Yes, he will work with GB as long as GB agrees to have two cards on two separate networks at the exact same time. Arum is a freakin cancer to the sport of boxing. He has the morals of a weasel on meth and contradicts himself every time he talks.

Linares tried to squirm out of facing Mikey, but now he is trapped. Either fight him or admit you won't. Its for Mikey's belt, Linares is the mandatory challenger. So Linares wouldn't have to vacate his belt, he can just say he doesn't want to fight Mikey. But if he does that, no one will ever respect him at all. Ever again.

[rrayvez]

Quit crying fool!

I would think a boxing fan like you would prefer to see a good fight a week after canelo vs ggg. Especially if your boy Canelo takes a bad L, would you really want to see that replay instead of Loma vs linares?

[1hourRun]

Linares and GB need the pay day. Loma is making close to a million per fight while GB could barely pay Linares 250k for his fights. Oscar pretty much screwed Linares of two good pay checks by trying to call the shots against Mikey and Loma, when Linares isn't a draw. Linares has to go to the UK to get a better pay check than GB pays him.

Right now Jorge Linares is in the drivers seat, he can give Lomochenko a opportunity or fight a real draw in Mikey Garcia but it seems Lomochenko side are trying to back out ; we know Lomochenko been exposed lets not pretend that hes TBE. I'm only quoting Lomochenko, hes not happy with his pay ; Lomochenko accused Bob Arum of ripping him off. Don't get mad at me because hes fighting in Bingo halls or Theatres whilst Linares has proven to headline on multiple continents, in front of thousands in Arenas drawing HUGE numbers.

umm why you lying ? Loma made Tank and team TMT his b1tches when he called out TankGina. you missed all those excuses from floyd and tank how he is so young and does not need to fight Loma?!!

Floyd ducked GGG
Tank ducked Loma

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Lomochenko been begging TMT Tank Davis on twitter, that's not how you get fights made and is embarrassing to honest considering this guy is suppose to be a P4P boxer but wants to fight a kid that does not even have a belt. Lomochenko needs to start fighting in his natural weight and stop trying to make a buck off young talent ; Leonard Ellerbe wont sell out Tank to further Lomochenkos underserved hype -- this fraud is in his prime beating up midgets three divisions bellow his actual weight class.

begging for a payday lmao!!! Tank makes less than the size purses of Loma. Loma already was on Bradley Marquez ppv undercard and Floyd vs Manny. He already done been on ppv dawg!

How much was Lomochenko making when when he was 22 years old? was he even a champion cause I know TMT Tank been did that.

[BigStomps]

I would think a boxing fan like you would prefer to see a good fight a week after canelo vs ggg. Especially if your boy Canelo takes a bad L, would you really want to see that replay instead of Loma vs linares?

I definitely wanna see Loma Vs linares. That's a great fight.
But I feel Oscar is doing everything possible to make this fight. Even a hater like you can see that.
But you'll never give Oscar props no matter what .
Uncle Bob knew HBO would play the replay on the 12th so why he being persistent on that date? HBO is even willing to pay more money to broadcast that fight if Bob is certain the fight has to happen on that day..
So how can you hold Oscar responsible for the fight not happening??

[rrayvez]

I definitely wanna see Loma Vs linares. That's a great fight.
But I feel Oscar is doing everything possible to make this fight. Even a hater like you can see that.
But you'll never give Oscar props no matter what .
Uncle Bob knew HBO would play the replay on the 12th so why he being persistent on that date? HBO is even willing to pay more money to broadcast that fight if Bob is certain the fight has to happen on that day..
So how can you hold Oscar responsible for the fight not happening??

I'm not holding Oscar accountable, not really holding arum accountable either. It's the networks that are ****ing it up for everyone. The reason why I think hbo is more to blame is because everyone seemed on board to have the fight on ESPN so deciding which network would air it wasn't the problem. The date became the problem because ESPN needs it to be that Saturday because they can't move around the NBA playoffs, and I see that as a more credible reason than not wanting competition vs a replay of a fight that hbo will already be raking in millions just 1 week earlier because it'll sell well over a million in ppv again. Ratings for a replay are pennies in comparison. At least that's what I think

[Robi13]

MORE money for everyone, bobby needs to stop bieng a lil biatch

[BigStomps]

I'm not holding Oscar accountable, not really holding arum accountable either. It's the networks that are ****ing it up for everyone. The reason why I think hbo is more to blame is because everyone seemed on board to have the fight on ESPN so deciding which network would air it wasn't the problem. The date became the problem because ESPN needs it to be that Saturday because they can't move around the NBA playoffs, and I see that as a more credible reason than not wanting competition vs a replay of a fight that hbo will already be raking in millions just 1 week earlier because it'll sell well over a million in ppv again. Ratings for a replay are pennies in comparison. At least that's what I think

I get what you're saying but I still blame Bob or ESPN. Yes it's a replay but everyone knows that HBO always plays the replay the following Sat after every high profile ppv fight. They been doing it for years so we all know it's not gonna stop. Oscar said they can pick another day so IDK why they cant do that? Like the Sat before the Canelo fight. What's wrong with that Sat?