Network wars

[champion4ever]

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The irony, I see in all of this, is that Bob Arum was just recently seen on social media calling Al Haymon Mr. Cancer.

[lanker rom]

If what you're saying that Kathy Duva has said is actually the truth (lol, not gonna hold my breath), the talent wars are in full effect and whomever has the talent will win.

The 2020 Olympic cycle will gear up soon, and the talent from the 2012/2016/2020 cycles will basically dictate the next decade.

Top Rank has Crawford and Lomachenko, a few from the 2016 cycle with promise, a few other okay fighters (Valdez, Zurdo, Ramirez, etc), and not much else; ESPN will go along with most of it, but they're not going to let Arum be Arum, if what you've said is true.

Haymon basically has every other fighter that matters at 147, most of the top talent at 154, 3 of the 4 champions at 175, a surprisingly deep hold of the talent at heavyweight, and basically the Lion's share of the top talent in every weight class north of 122lbs outside of cruiserweight and maybe 130.

And that's before you count the prospects set to start breaking through over the next couple years (Ritchardson Hitchens, Mario Barrios, Joey Spencer, Tony Yoka, Fabian Maidana, etc).

Across everything, it's likely going to be 50 dates, 30-35 of which are likely to be on CBS/Showtime/FOX/SHOPPV/FOX PPV/FS1 supershows, and it's likely that Haymon may still not have enough dates.

I agree talent and development will matter a whole bunch however in the case of dazn they are trying to
Steal fighters from pbc once they get a name. This strategy is flawed becuase like the case with mikey they attempted to get him before he peaked if mikey fights only on ppv for the next 2 years he will 100% make more than 8 million dollars

This makes me believe along with the fact they were being outbid by espn that they aren't willing to spend crazy money unless its canelo and even then its 11 fights

You make a great point on pbc developing new stars does he have any new guys at 160..... other than that theirs going to be a lot of pressure on Anthony Joshua in the years approaching efe,joyce,yoka,wilder, etc

[Scipio2009]

I agree talent and development will matter a whole bunch however in the case of dazn they are trying to
Steal fighters from pbc once they get a name. This strategy is flawed becuase like the case with mikey they attempted to get him before he peaked if mikey fights only on ppv for the next 2 years he will 100% make more than 8 million dollars

This makes me believe along with the fact they were being outbid by espn that they aren't willing to spend crazy money unless its canelo and even then its 11 fights

You make a great point on pbc developing new stars does he have any new guys at 160..... other than that theirs going to be a lot of pressure on Anthony Joshua in the years approaching efe,joyce,yoka,wilder, etc

Jermall Charlo, Daniel Jacobs, Derevyanchenko, CentenoJr, Aleem, Khytrov from what I know for sure; as far as the guys just starting, I can't name any 160lbers that are sure with Haymon off the top of my head.