Comments Thread For: CBS Sports/PBC Deal Revealed: Stevenson-Bika, More

[IIG]

Exactly. None of these are good fights imo. I doubt Chavez Jr. will even happen, since Arum said he would enforce his contract with Chavez. Maybe they bought out his contract...

They are all good fights in my opinion, except Beterbiev-Campillo. Could they be better? Yes, but let's allow some time for this **** to get off the ground. The main takeaway is that the schedule is absolutely loaded with quality fights right now on a damn near weekly basis.

[Eastcoast]

Anyone notice Jermell Charlo vs Matirosyn? Haymon just told Demetrius Andrade to go suck a D. Hope Boo Boo didn't have any bills to pay. Maybe he'll learn not to pull out of fights.

[Pigeons]

Al Haymon is the man, he's really looking our for the fans


I hope he kills HBO.

[mrlopez]

Its at 130 and on CBS.

Canelo got lucky cause there is no way he gets more viewership than CBS.

Full day of boxing though so im happy.

Good point. Well nevermind if it's at 1:30 lol

well dam.nit man, my 2nd cinco de mayo weekend starts earlier than expected if its at 1:30!!!!

[AgainstTheRopes]

Al Haymon is the man, he's really looking our for the fans


I hope he kills HBO.

Why would you hope this kills HBO?

HBO is stepping up themselves and putting on some great cards

[champion4ever]

Boxing going mainstream is always good for the sport.

[bigjavi973]

Being saying it. Promoters should concentrate on promotion. I don't see fighters signing with promotional companies in the next couple of years if this works out so promotional companies right now should start getting in good and be the promoter for these fights.

But with today's technology and everything being on social media promotional companies might become a thing of the past

so lets say roc nation sports wins a purse bid for one of the fights... will al haymon tell his client to pull out of the fight this time or no? What do you think?

[North Star]

It's kind of strange that all these network deals are time-buys. The networks don't lose anything, but I really don't see how this can blossom into a revenue generating machine. Casual viewers don't care for boxing. They hardly care for MMA and WWE these days and both are on the downtrend. I see this as a move to flood the market with product and hope for best. IMO, for boxing to change it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up at the amateur level to the pros. If top dollar was spent on development of the youth programs and facilities, it would translate to higher caliber boxers in the pros. Haymon is attempting the trickle down economic model here, and I don't think it is the right move. Boxing on network tv is great and all, but we need to make it a community/neighborhood sport for it to thrive again like we want it too.

[GodInFleshSuit]

Adonis fighting super middleweights now.

[creekrat77]

Al Haymon is the man, he's really looking our for the fans


I hope he kills HBO.

What makes you think Al Haymon would stage the fights we want to see when he has done the exact opposite!?