Comments Thread For: HBO Ends Golden Boy Relationship, Passes on Broner

[UNiQU3]

got a very good one coming up may 4th. thats all that counts you jealous chump.canelo will come next.

Jealous?? Ni99a, I don't work at HBO.

[UTEP]

SHO still feels like a B network compared to HBO. Production wise, HBO still got the game on lock. And when was the last time Showtime actually had a boxing PPV anyway??

Less PPV's is better for boxing fans poopy head

[UNiQU3]

Less PPV's is better for boxing fans poopy head

I know that, but a PPV usually indicates a high level match up. What's that say about SHO's recent history?

[paulf]

I knew once HBO Hired Heirchman Its was over. He sucked at Showtime. What made HBO think he was a good hire. HBO is Done! Showtime will be the new king.

Yeah, totally. Hershman only made the Super Six 168 Tournament and the Bantamweight Tournament, and was consistently dedicated to making competitive even matchups as opposed to the one-sided showcases we constantly see on HBO.

Who would enjoy that stuff?

[Big_L]

You buggin. Showtime fight were wack. The best thing they had was the super six Tourny...Thats it!

all the corrales/castillo/casamayor/freitas fights were showtime. vasquez/marquez series. a lot of guys like ward and dawson came up on showtime only to have hbo come in and take them with big $$$.

showtime has been doing more with less than hbo for years.

[Porter's Dad]

This is absolutely astonishing news. It was only a few years ago that HBO and GBP were in cahoots and all the other promoters were complaining about it. I really wonder what the implications are going to be.

Best case scenario - HBO are going to be liberated and bold, and push for great match-ups.

Worst case scenario - this move is just going to add to the fractured nature of boxing, and we'll miss out on even more match ups, on top of the ******ed GBP vs TR beef.

This is boxing, so I'm thinking we're going to get the worse case scenario.

[Larry the boss]

well damn..........

[Heru]

Big big mistake by Hershman, and will likely lead to his dismissal. When you compare the rosters of GBP vs. TR, its a no contest. Sure, he doesnt need to buy EVERY fight, but to publicly say you are going to cut yourself off from the GBP roster is just ignorant. He's basically saying "hey I have no interest in showing Saul Alvarez, or Angulo, or Broner, or K9, or Danny Garcia, or Robert Guerrero, or Khan, or Maidana, or Mares, or Matthysse, or Ortiz, or Quillin, or Santa Cruz, or upcoming guys like Thurman, Jermell Charlo, or Omar Figueroa"

Good post...

This announcement by Hershman is just as much a verbal commitment to Top Rank as it is an exile of Golden Boy.

Arum just talked HBO into forfeiting their leverage by getting them to officially cut ties with his main competitor. He has HBO to himself at this point. If HBO can have success showing Rios, Alvarado, Allakhverdiev, Bradley, Provodnikov, and the like, more power to them. There are excellent fights in that mix, but, unfortunately, these aren't fighters that garner good ratings (regardless of how good the fight looks beforehand).

Showtime has been experiencing their best boxing and overall ratings since last year when they've been almost an exclusive GBP network and with Broner on his way it figures to only get better.

[Dr Rumack]

Yeah, totally. Hershman only made the Super Six 168 Tournament and the Bantamweight Tournament, and was consistently dedicated to making competitive even matchups as opposed to the one-sided showcases we constantly see on HBO.

Who would enjoy that stuff?

Most of the one-sided showcases we saw on HBO were Golden Boy fights weren't they? Hopefully Golden Boy will step their matchmaking up in response to all the stuff that's happening. With any luck both sides will.

[badnewsbrown]

hershman did good at showtime. he had a fraction of the budget to work with and showtime always had better fights than hbo.

If he did such a good job, the budget would have been increased over time. They hardly had a big fight on and while they did have some decent scraps, most of what showtime did from a business standpoint was just crap. They really did not deliver for the fans at all.