Comments Thread For: Pacquiao-Thurman Deal Can Be Done Quick, Says Gibbons

[JakeTheBoxer]

Prime pac does I agree post Jeff Horn idc. He beated two bums since losing to horn.

Matthysse and Broner are both by far better fighters than Josesito Lopez. They are no bums.

[pasawayako]

lol. another easy win for pac against a young and prime top welterweight.

[Removed Now]

Matthysse and Broner are both by far better fighters than Josesito Lopez. They are no bums.

Lucas won a regular belt off of a dive. That Asian guy took a dive and broner is a BUM!!

Idk if Lucas is that much better than Lopez I really don't.

[mapleleaf27]

If you got sued by Arum and De La Hoya, you would probably feel some type of way too! Funny, Haymon brought boxing back to network TV, Arum and Oscar tried to destroy it, now they benefit from what Haymon started! I think they should say "thank you."

not sure how old you are, Top Rank was on espn for over 16 years starting in 1980...Haymon did not invent the wheel here, there has been boxing on free tv way before PBC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Rank

[-Antonio-]

I might have to go see this one live.

[strykr619]

Lucas won a regular belt off of a dive. That Asian guy took a dive and broner is a BUM!!

Idk if Lucas is that much better than Lopez I really don't.

LOL at Broner being a bum.... far from it. But Lopez and Matthyse are even skill wise IMO.

[strykr619]

Roach on Pacquiao: If we can’t get Mayweather rematch, Thurman my second choice

https://www.badlefthook.com/2019/1/2...-second-choice

If Even Freddie wants this fight that tells me alot, Thurman is gonna shell up just as much as Margarito did.

[ptek]

Pac beats every version of Thurman.

O Yer, so would you like to put your money where your mouth is ? .

[Richard G]

Matthysse and Broner are both by far better fighters than Josesito Lopez. They are no bums.

Laugh of the week

[Bronx2245]

not sure how old you are, Top Rank was on espn for over 16 years starting in 1980...Haymon did not invent the wheel here, there has been boxing on free tv way before PBC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Rank

I'm 50+ and I remember boxing on Wide World of Sports on ABC! That was a long time ago! Top Rank on ESPN is the equivalent of SHOBOX, but that's not what i'm talking about:

March 6. 2015

But it has been decades since there has been any regularly scheduled boxing on NBC -- or on any broadcast network, for that matter. NBC hasn't aired a prime-time title fight since Holmes' heavyweight defense against Carl "The Truth" Williams in 1985. It hasn't aired a title fight of any kind since 1987, when Vinny Pazienza won a lightweight belt from Greg Haugen by controversial 15-round decision. Since then, NBC has aired fights quite sporadically, including the finale of the first season of "The Contender" reality series in 2005 and a few Saturday afternoon cards promoted by Main Events in the past couple of years.

But times, they are a-changing.
Boxing -- big-time boxing at that -- returns to network prime time Saturday night (NBC, 8:30 ET) when welterweight titlist Keith Thurman (24-0, 21 KOs) makes his first defense against Robert Guerrero (32-2-1, 18 KOs) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The fight headlines the first of 20 cards this year on NBC and NBCSN on adviser/manager Al Haymon's "Premier Boxing Champions" series. Eleven cards will be on NBC (five on Saturday nights, six on Saturday afternoons) and nine will be on NBCSN...

Haymon, who does not speak to the media, has purchased the time on the network -- as well as time on CBS (on Saturday afternoons) and multiple basic cable networks -- as he seeks to change the paradigm of the boxing business and keep his stable of more than 180 fighters active. The goal is to eventually entice sponsors and networks beyond HBO and Showtime to open their checkbooks and pay serious money for boxing once they see the strong viewership figures Haymon undoubtedly hopes the PBC series will generate.

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...ampions-series


March 6, 2015

While there have been one-off fights on free-to-air TV through the years – a Mike Tyson comeback bout on Fox in 1995, Bernard Hopkins-Glen Johnson on CBS in 1997 – Saturday’s PBC premiere represents the sport’s most committed attempt in three decades to breaking down the paywall it’s built around itself.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...makes-his-move

You get it now?