HBO setting up fights for Showtime

**Robbie Barrett** · 03-25-2018, 08:26 PM

Originally posted by Mammoth

Just a pawn for Hearn if the Miller-Duhaupas winner fights Joshua and Whyte fights Wilder. That's rock bottom, HBO.

You think Haymon will win the purse bid for Wilder-Whyte? I don't. Hearn will win, the fight will be in the UK and likely on HBO in the US.

**Mammoth** · 03-25-2018, 08:27 PM

Originally posted by Robbie Barrett

You think Haymon will win the purse bid for Wilder-Whyte? I don't. Hearn will win, the fight will be in the UK and likely on HBO in the US.

**Robbie Barrett** · 03-25-2018, 08:30 PM

Originally posted by Mammoth

It's pretty simple. Haymon can't make the money from a Wilder-Whyte fight that Hearn can. Hearn having exclusive rights to Sky Sports guarantees that. Hearn also has a deal with HBO. If that purse bid happens Stork Legs will be on HBO.

**bluebeam** · 03-25-2018, 10:02 PM

Originally posted by Robbie Barrett

It's pretty simple. Haymon can't make the money from a Wilder-Whyte fight that Hearn can. Hearn having exclusive rights to Sky Sports guarantees that. Hearn also has a deal with HBO. If that purse bid happens Stork Legs will be on HBO.

wilder won't be fighting on hbo. he is a showtime fighter. whyte isnt a showtime fighter and he isn't a hbo fighter. he will be fighting wilder on showtime and showtime only.

purse bid? hearn said 4 million right? there will be no purse bid

**Robbie Barrett** · 03-26-2018, 10:23 AM

Originally posted by bluebeam

wilder won't be fighting on hbo. he is a showtime fighter. whyte isnt a showtime fighter and he isn't a hbo fighter. he will be fighting wilder on showtime and showtime only.

purse bid? hearn said 4 million right? there will be no purse bid

It doesn't matter what any fighter is signed to. The winner of the purse bid decides where the fight goes. If Hearn wants HBO, Wilder fights on HBO or gets stripped.

**The Big Dunn** · 03-26-2018, 02:04 PM

Originally posted by Mammoth

Just a pawn for Hearn if the Miller-Duhaupas winner fights Joshua and Whyte fights Wilder. That's rock bottom, HBO.

I disagree. Hearn has said he will stay with SHO but I don't believe it. Look at things.

Jacobs on HBO. Wilder and other Hearn fighters on HBO. Joshua free agent. Dibella now talking about Wilder/Brazeale being next.

Not looking good.

**bluebeam** · 03-28-2018, 08:16 AM

Originally posted by Robbie Barrett

It doesn't matter what any fighter is signed to. The winner of the purse bid decides where the fight goes. If Hearn wants HBO, Wilder fights on HBO or gets stripped.

it does matter.

a fighter signed to a network has never fought on another network while under contract. not once.

why do you dudes say stuff with no history to back it up.

show me an example of a fighter signed to one network fighting on another network

**_Rexy_** · 03-28-2018, 08:22 AM

Originally posted by bluebeam

it does matter.

a fighter signed to a network has never fought on another network while under contract. not once.

why do you dudes say stuff with no history to back it up.

show me an example of a fighter signed to one network fighting on another network

Memory isn't what it once was, but wasn't Tyson/Lewis a split network fight?

regardless, no way does this go to a purse bid.

**Pandur** · 03-28-2018, 10:25 AM

I think it is the other way around. HBO also showed Ryan Burnett last fight.

Showtime dont have the dates for Eddie Hearns fighters. HBO does.

HBO setting up fights for Showtime