Haymon and Showtime killing HBO CELEBRATION THREAD

[Randall Cunning]

Showtime will go next, notice I didnt say Fox before brandishing me a hater

[Citizen Koba]

I don't understand. Does the TS have shares in Showtime or something?

[Curt Henning]

i actually predicted this a few years ago over at ESB

oscar killed hbo when he pulled his whole power struggle move over richard schaefer....golden boy had it good....real good...and oscar was too tied to the old model of how boxer/promter/network relationship was supposed to work....he couldnt see ahead....see the new wave of what haymon was doing...and how the fighters liked it...

[-MAKAVELLI-]

Once they didnt resign Floyd Mayweather it was over for them. Then they decided rather emotionally to ban all Al Haymon fighters, forcing Haymon to create the PBC. They did this to themselves.

holy shit...your ass is still here and using normal font

[N/A]

So boxing was better off without pbc is what you’re saying.

US boxing desperately needs a dominant league. PBC is the best chance for that to happen. If you're a US boxing fan, PBC is the best thing to happen in a very long time.

[N/A]

Showtime will go next

You're so ****ing stupid. Showtime just signed the biggest boxing deal of their existence. They spent tens of millions to bully HBO out of the boxing business. Showtime won. Now they get to reap the rewards. Why the hell would they leave boxing when they just tripled down on boxing and it's been such a huge success for them?

[WhiteCracker]

so top rank killed hbo?

[N/A]

i actually predicted this a few years ago over at ESB

Yep! I remember. And you're one of the only ones here that didn't call me crazy when I said PBC was going to bully HBO out of the boxing business.

That's the wonderful thing about history. We can go back and see which posters have been proven wrong over and over and which posters have been proven right. All the trolls that fight with you end up looking horrible a few years later when you go back and read their posts.

[Randall Cunning]

US boxing desperately needs a dominant league. PBC is the best chance for that to happen. If you're a US boxing fan, PBC is the best thing to happen in a very long time.

Damn one of the worst things ive ever seen from a so called boxing fan. GO USA! GO USA! Same with every sport, America throws the toys out of the pram if they aint on top. "We'll start our own league" "YEAH YEAH", "We'll wear helmets and watch loads of adverts" "**** Yeah America!"

[champion4ever]

Simply put Al Haymon put HBO out of business. Now Showtime is the premier and last premium Cable network left on television. This way they don't have any more competition.

Therefore, now they have more leverage than ever before because fighters would be more inclined to get more exposure and publicity on television as opposed to fighting on the internet where they will become less likely to find.