Are HBO and GBP making a huge mistake shafting ESPN? Don't they realize....

[Boxing Logic]

Don't they realize ESPN did much more to promote GBP's and HBO's biggest pay-per-view last year, Canelo-GGG, than they did? ESPN First Take, and Sportscenter, covering the Canelo-GGG fight so many different times for months leading up to that fight, then First Take going to Vegas to do live shows from the fight, played a big part in all the PPV buys HBO and GBP did. And I'm sure ESPN was planning to do the same thing for the rematch. HBO and GBP are biting the hand that feeds them, and it makes no sense to me. If Eric Gomez and Peter Nelson are smart, they will call ESPN tomorrow and apologize, and say they weren't thinking straight, and that Loma-Linares is good to go for May 12th on ESPN.

They might think the Canelo-GGG replay is important right now, but when ESPN cuts coverage on it as payback for this, and the Canelo-GGG live pay-per-view buys dip 25% as a result, GBP and HBO aren't going to be worrying about the replay anymore, they will have bigger problems. They should play nice with ESPN, and ESPN will probably promote their fight for them again, and everyone's numbers will do well, and everyone will win, the sport, both networks, GBP, Linares, and the fans. I have no idea what GBP and HBO are thinking.

[Outwest Exp 355]

ESPN went to Vegas out of the goodness of their heart? GTFOH a huge portion of the promotional budget went to ESPN that’s why they went to Vegas. You’re acting like they were loosing money covering the fight, and I’m not talking about the blackjack table.

[Mammoth]

ESPN need to suck it up and work with GBP and find a different date or lose a fight that helps build Loma's brand.

[Taxman2000]

How are they shafting espn

[MasterPlan]

Lol they're both with ESPN.

[HanzGruber]

They’ll be shafting themselves by having the fight go against their own show during the gg canelo replay. I gotta side with hbo and gbp here. There so many other days. I guess they’ll settle for loma fighting Beltran for his green card

[Eff Pandas]

So your angle is ESPN wasn't gonna talk about a huge sporting event unless they were just trying to help out Oscar? Or just that Oscar owes a sports channel cuz they talked about his sporting event? That makes zero sense. ESPN is doing there job, GBP is avoiding hurting their own ratings.

ESPN is a sports channel. ESPN not talking about GGG vs Canelo would be like the weather channel not talking about some hurricane. This would be a counter programming issue for GBP. TR would NEVER do something like this...and neither should GBP.

[Boxing Logic]

ESPN went to Vegas out of the goodness of their heart? GTFOH a huge portion of the promotional budget went to ESPN that’s why they went to Vegas. You’re acting like they were loosing money covering the fight, and I’m not talking about the blackjack table.

You're saying ESPN First Take got paid by GBP to promote GGG-Canelo? Since when? I didn't realize First Take was a pay-for-coverage advertisement show where other sports companies can pay them to debate their show on First Take? That would seem to have ethical issues attached, but in 2017 I guess anything is possible. They don't seem to care about ethics anymore in the entertainment industry. But where did you hear this? Do you have a source for this?

[Boxing Logic]

They’ll be shafting themselves by having the fight go against their own show during the gg canelo replay. I gotta side with hbo and gbp here. There so many other days. I guess they’ll settle for loma fighting Beltran for his green card

You have Floyd and Rigo as your avatar. One is an Arum hater, the other just got embarrassed by Loma. So I'm thinking even if Loma and Arum jointly solved the world's food crisis, you still wouldn't side with them about anything.

[turnedup]

you have floyd and rigo as your avatar. One is an arum hater, the other just got embarrassed by loma. So i'm thinking even if loma and arum jointly solved the world's food crisis, you still wouldn't side with them about anything.

lmfao /endthread