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wtf is this guy doing? Haymon has been sending him his scraps all year. I mean I like the Easter-Barthelemy fight but that's pretty much an FS1 tier matchup tbh. They spent a bunch of money promoting Shields vs Hammer and it did terrible ratings. They also lost out on signing Devin Haney to DAZN which is a bad look because they featured him on Showbox 3 times before. Not a good year for Showtime boxing.
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I already dropped Showtime. Not worth keeping with what they've been putting on. -
Good job boys. You guys are finally seeing the light! PBC getting boring up in dis hoe!
WAR DAZN!Comment
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Not a good year thus far? Sure, but why the hell would they drop him? He's the one that made the Mayweather deal and made SHO the equal of HBO, and eventually it's superior. HBO dominated for years and he changed that by getting the Floyd deal, which eventually led to getting all of GBP and Haymon fighters.
Haymon sent a lot of his top names on FOX in the first half of the year. Doesn't mean that will continue. Espinoza's plan is still to air the GRJ/LSC fight later this year as well as the 154 unification bout, preferably Charlo vs Hurd.
FOX getting the top names from their new deal was expected, but Haymon will soon to need to distribute names to both networks equally. I mean SHO still got the biggest PBC fighter in Wilder, and eventually hope to get the Joshua fight on SHO PPV.
So yeah, firing a guy that led the start to HBO's demise and making SHO the premium cable leader in boxing while putting on three of the four biggest PPVs ever is suspect to say the least.Comment
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Showtime's on borrowed time in regards to Boxing.Comment
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Sure, but to fire him because of that? Who had a better 2017 and 2018 then SHO?
And to be honest, with more dates the quality of the shows dropped. Not like FOX has had GREAT shows. I mean nothing wrong at all with most of them, but they are just getting the big names for the time being. Let's see how this plays out.Comment
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Espinoza brought up Dmitry Bivol as a soon to be free agent they are looking into. Believes Sho has the best opponents — thus, future— for Bivol in Adonis Stevenson, Badou Jack, Marcus Browne, and Eleider Alvarez—says Alvarez will definitely be with Sho after the Kovalev fight.
— Sean Nam (@seanpasbon) November 19, 2018
Alvarez will "definitely" be with Showtime after the Kovalev fight lmao.Comment
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Showtime Boxing been on its way out for a while. Espinoza is paying Haymon alot of money to help him by doing what ever the hell he has to do to get the big fights on Showtime PPV. The problem they are not willing to compete with DAZN or ESPN financially so rather than counter offer they are just digging in refusing and refusing in the hope people like Hearn and Arum, Joshua or Crawford give in and take a deal on Showtime for less money to get the fights they want.
Thats why we are seeing all this weirdness. 100mill offers turned down, people calling 10x their best payday lowballs, or with Crawford just pretending he doesnt exist or doesnt count. They are not going to budge until everybody crosses the street to Showtime PPV because thats going to make Espinoza happy, Al Haymon rich and everybody else a lttle bit poorer than they needed to of been. Fighters could of made more money, promoters and managers could of made more money and the fans would be getting all these fights cheaper than they will on Showtime PPV.Comment
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