HBO IS DEAD THEIR OBSESSION WITH EE FIGHTERS KILLED It

[Motorcity Cobra]

Cotto was born in Rhode Island

[kafkod]

People joke about the LDBC but 78sports is probably the least biased and keeps it real...everybody else..iono. Blood boxing too, after that it falls off when it comes to quality.

The crazy thing is that this true. As dumb, biased, and irrational as that clown is, the other LDBC wankers are even worse.

[chrisJS]

Cotto was born in Rhode Island

Lived there for a very small amount of time. His first steps, words etc; were in Puerto Rico. Bruce Willis was born in Germany. He's about as German as exotic food.

[chrisJS]

Well HBO boxing was built off the backs of Great American and Latin fighters, Sweet Pea Whitaker and Tito Trinidad still holds the record for the highest rated fight on HBO and that will likely never be broken.

No Question HBO went away from that and went strictly international. While that is great for us hardcore fans who can see these guys on HBO in Full HD and not some awful Stream Online fighting in their home countries, to the Casual American Sports Fans they don't give a DAMN about some Foreigner they never heard of.

To every Foreign Fighter that made in big here in the US, it was an American Fighter opposite of him and that is how Don King or Bob Arum would make a name for that Foreign Fighter here in the US. Pacquiao was attached to Mayweather's Hip as "The Guy That Can Potentially Beat Mayweather" and Arum being the genius promoter that he is ran with that Marketing Strategy all the way to the bank and made a TON of $$$ off of Pacquiao by simply mentioning him in the same sentence as Mayweather

I get the feeling that Lampley is in Peter Nelson's Ear which is why HBO has fallen, it feels like the fighters fighting on HBO are guys Lampley prefers and things are Failing Miserably. They tried to match PBC by signing fighters exclusively especially after Stevenson jumped to PBC and none of those signed have truly paid off besides GGG and Canelo

Fire Peter Nelson and completely rebuild everything about HBO Boxing and try to push a more Fair And Balance Narrative! Hire a BOXING GUY not some damn Exec that don't know sh_t about boxing

What were the viewing figures for that? Wright vs. Taylor drew 5.5m viewers. That's crazy in hindsight.

[Ray*]

All these propaganda stuff is boring, I feel American TV networks should invest more in Americans anyway. You just have to look at someone like Wilder who only until recently wasn’t backed for years until Joshua came along, or Spence who is only getting to that stage now and still trying to get up there. Support your own first before showcasing others.

[rickJen]

So you only want to see HBO feature black fighters. I see.

[sicko]

What were the viewing figures for that? Wright vs. Taylor drew 5.5m viewers. That's crazy in hindsight.

It was something Ridiculous like 16.5 Nielsen Ratings (not sure how Nielsen rating work but I don't think that is the exact number of Viewers)

https://variety.com/1999/tv/news/hbo-delivers-ratings-ko-with-title-bout-1117491671/

[Motorcity Cobra]

Lived there for a very small amount of time. His first steps, words etc; were in Puerto Rico. Bruce Willis was born in Germany. He's about as German as exotic food.

A lot of kids whose parents were in the military were born in different countries. Puerto Ricans are Americans

[Pigeons]

What were the viewing figures for that? Wright vs. Taylor drew 5.5m viewers. That's crazy in hindsight.

3.5M


https://www.mmanews.com/ufc-vs-boxin...-more-popular/

[chrisJS]

3.5M


https://www.mmanews.com/ufc-vs-boxin...-more-popular/

Had it in my head for some reason it was 5.5m. What would be a 16.5 Nielson rating? I'm curious as to how many Tito-Sweat Pea brought in.