Comments Thread For: Bob Arum Reacts To HBO's Decision To Leave Boxing

[paulf]

I have to agree with Arum on this. That as*hole Nelson looks like a real douchebag. He alone ruined HBO boxing and he seems to think that is a good thing. There is absolutely no reason to watch HBO anymore. Who wants to pay a monthly fee to watch 7 episodes of Game of Thrones every other year.

For all we know, Nelson was put in charge specifically to bring HBO's boxing content to an end and find a new direction for HBO Sports. It is what it is.

[jdp28tx]

there is a large number of pretentious tv watchers who would give rave reviews and praise if hbo produced a show about someone who likes to defecate in peoples work lunches....they'd say its so edgy and whatever....hbo is more interested in producing shows like westworld with huge budgets that leave people giving out "fan theories" on reddit all day and night

i think showtime may eventually catch up to them....showtime has some good shows and docs too

I wrote HBO an email telling them I was cancelling due to them dropping HBO. They sent me a pretentious reply. They basically said that now HBO is above boxing and they see boxing as below HBO's new standards. A kind of elitist attitude as they cited HBO's new direction which includes doing documentary's on surfing and golf!

[jdp28tx]

For all we know, Nelson was put in charge specifically to bring HBO's boxing content to an end and find a new direction for HBO Sports. It is what it is.

Yeah a new direction on sports which includes a documentary on "a legendary crew of young surfers that would take the sport to unprecedented heights" plus 24/7 episodes on *****ing golf! This came from an HBO reply to an email I sent them telling them I am cancelling HBO because they are dropping boxing.

[Boxing lives]

HBO will be putting their boxing money into bisexual men fighting and getting their heads bashed in on game of thrones fight scenes and such.

[Curt Henning]

I wrote HBO an email telling them I was cancelling due to them dropping HBO. They sent me a pretentious reply. They basically said that now HBO is above boxing and they see boxing as below HBO's new standards. A kind of elitist attitude as they cited HBO's new direction which includes doing documentary's on surfing and golf!

they do have some good stuff...but theyve been going pretentious and douche for awhile now

you ever see that movie "i love you, man"? with paul rudd...theres one scene where his friend asks him to hang on a sunday night and hes like "me and zoey(his fiance)usually watch hbo programming on sunday nights"....

people go gaga over westworld...to me its insufferable....but people will spend hours on reddit talking about it......

whatever..like i said...they could have had a good boxing program going...but oscar effed it all up when he kicked schaeffer out