why are people celebrating hbo pulling out of boxing?

[Madison Boxing]

wow what amazing news, a company with a long, proud history in the sport no longer feels boxing is a good area to invest in, despite recently showing the biggest fight of the year. get the champagne out people....

[rickJen]

Because they're fake fans.
Their view of boxing is based on Haymon's viewpoint.

[mcdonalds]

Because they have been trash for years and we are sick of their terrible commentating. They also banned haymon fighters, who has the biggest stable in boxing, and that was a TERRIBLE mistake.

They decided not to support young american fighters and paid the price!!!!

Showtime/FOX/ESPN is where boxing lives now

[TonyGe]

The HBO crew could have used a shake up but HBO leaving is bad news.

[rickJen]

I doubt big blockbusters such as Cnelo vs Glovkin would even have happened in Haymon's backyard.
They would rot just like his inactive fighters.

[Madison Boxing]

Because they have been trash for years and we are sick of their terrible commentating. They also banned haymon fighters, who has the biggest stable in boxing, and that was a TERRIBLE mistake.

They decided not to support young american fighters and paid the price!!!!

Showtime/FOX/ESPN is where boxing lives now

have any of the young, american stars built themselves into star attractions elsewhere? or been involved in a fight anywhere near as big as the one hbo last showed with canelo and golovkin? what you all seem to be failing to understand is that they werent forced into quitting, they have just decided theres better options to invest in.

[Phenom]

I don't think they are leaving by choice basically they got kicked out of the sport pretty soon Netflix is going to put them out of business

Karma is a b1tch

[iamboxing]

Larry Merchant leaving was the beginning of the end. It all went downhill from that point.

[mcdonalds]

have any of the young, american stars built themselves into star attractions elsewhere? or been involved in a fight anywhere near as big as the one hbo last showed with canelo and golovkin? what you all seem to be failing to understand is that they werent forced into quitting, they have just decided theres better options to invest in.

They were forced to quit, everyone knows this. Canelo became a star on SHOWTIME first. GGG is barely a star since he couldn't even sell out the stub hub center.

Showtime has put on the best fights this year by far, with HBO gone making certain fights has just gotten a lot easier!

[uppercut510]

because how hbo treated haymon and all its certain demographic fighters and tried so badly to hype foreigners I assume. im not celebrating but their agenda was played out and the writing was on the wall. great legacy, sad how they went out on a trashy tacky note. And its funny that the very posters who said haymon would fail and updated the boards with every mishap that happened with PBC are now asking this question. moving along.... any fights this weekend?