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The HBO Budget Crisis and What it Means
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Originally posted by -PBP- View PostI've been reading a lot lately and it seems this HBO budget issue is becoming serious. I'm not a business expert but the main issue is Time Warner made some budget cuts and HBO sports took a significant hit.
This is coming up in a lot of articles:
1. HBO has no interest in Cotto's next fight unless it's PPV
http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/p...lanning-stages
2. Per Bob Arum, they are not interested in pushing Lomachenko or Postol. This is somewhat confirmed here:
http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/p...o-walters-card
So now, they will likely pass on one of the best cards of the year: Walters/Lomachenko and Postol/Granados. It's become the network of mismatches and the upcoming schedule is full of them. Rumor is Showtime might be picking that card up.
Why should we care?
They have nearly the entire top 10 p4p list to exclusive network deals but can't afford to bring in top competition for them. Then you have PBC across the street paying big bucks so would want to fight on HBO anyways.
Are they just going to continue to shove Kovalev, Golovkin and Crawford down our throats in these one sided mismatches?
So basically, it's not looking good. What are your thoughts?
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