Comments Thread For: PBC on ESPN/ABC Multi-Year Deal Set - Details Revealed

[jas]

Haymon is reviving boxing

[gdub27]

If there is one thing I know for certain with all this Al Haymon, PBC stuff its that a lot of people have no f#cking clue what a monopoly is.

Damn public schools!!!

THIS!!^^^^^^
We get to watch more boxing shows.... What's the problem? Who gives a crap how and why. Nobody on this site is making or losing any money because Haymon is putting on more fights. I wonder if the haters on here investigate all the monetary terms of all the TV programs they watch. Why do you haters care about the PBCs sustainability? It's a boxing show on free tv or basic cable, who cares how we get it? Reminds me of a saying about not looking a particular type of horse in the mouth.

[mbase1235]

Man shut the *** up with that ****** ****.

You guys cry about arum and king destroying boxing after all these years. now we have haymon trying to get the sport back into mainstream and back onto network tv and you b1tches crying even more.

Face it, there never has or never will be a perfect system for boxing. Promoter, managers, the network and even fighters will have some disagreement or issue with a certain fight being made. This is a business so, politics will happen, in terms of favoritism and not aligning with another. It's all competition! There has been alot of fights that has never happened in this sport, deal with it b1tch! Take your fantasy fights and put them in your xbox 3. All that matters is the sport still lives on considering year after year, people keep saying the sport is dying.

haymon is working with hbo and arum to put on pac-mayweather! this is a good sign, and people aren't even talking about it.

i never thought i'd see the day where clowns like you with your fingers in your ass taking sides for networks and promoters. i don't care for haymon but i have to take my hat off for "trying" to uplift the sport with the moves he's making.

whether it's pbc, top rank, dibella, gbp, haymon, i don't give a shyt and don't *** ride any of them. all that matter is back on cable televison for the good and it's 2015 meaning boxing is ALIVE and WELL!

I was gonna reply, but this quote says it all! 100% agree.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Lets just hope the fights that are put on are fights people WANT to see and not some of those garbage fights like last friday.

All of those were solid. You cant never complain about two heavy weights going toe to toe and it was 2kos. What else do you want?

[bigdunny1]

Garcia has a tough fight coming up, lets give it some time huh. Floyd v nanny got done.

Floyd is a unique situation. Floyd whether you hate him or not really doesn't have a boss or match maker. Unlike any other Haymon fighter he calls his owns shots. Danny Garcia has a tough fight ONLY if you strictly compare it to the bum he fought last Salka unranked lightweight. But he's fighting Peterson who already got blasted by Mattyhsee and it's a bogus catchweight so neither belt is on the line and the loser gets to keep their championship status. Why not fight Mattyhsee again, or fight Broner, or fight Thurman? Or Herrera the man who whooped his butt last year. Or just any creditable fighter at 147. Why is he still holding a belt at 140 when he can't even make that weight and he has Haymon paying people off to step aside as a mandatory challenger

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Not sure if you knew this or not but ESPN was already putting on Boxing fights. They had Friday Night Fights and were even putting on shows on primetime spots like the Arreloa vs Stiverne on ESPN. And still that didn't get much coverage on SportsCenter.

That's what he's saying this deal includes sports center coverage

[b Murphington]

More fight cards on more channels has the potential to create a larger fan base IF THE FIGHTS ARE GOOD. The shows will fail if the cards are wide mismatches. Look at betting odds in boxing. 10 - 1 favorites way to often. A lot of fighters are over protected and the best possible matches don't get made. That's the real issue. Look at other successful sports. They succeed because they are competitive. The talent pool is so wide in boxing. From people who shouldn't even be in the ring to all time greats. Boxing on more channels is good, but it can't stop there. Competitive fights need to happen as well.

[bigdunny1]

roc nation isn't a major promoter. Floyd v Manny is working with TR. if Stevenson and Kov fight, that's working with Main events. We know why he isn't working with GBP.

Can you answer any of the questions as I answered yours? Did not seeing the title belt affect the quality of the ghost/Thurman fight?

shady because he doesn't do interviews. have you seen the CEO of your bank do a TV interview? is s/he shady? Jay z hasn't been interviewed since roc nation signed fighters and got into boxing-are they shady?

Eventually, you, Barcham and others will have to come clean as to why you really don't want this to succeed.

It's not about whether seeing the belts affected the fight. The point is he was hiding them because in the near future he plans on creating his own league and own belts. If that happens then his fighters will only fight each other

Jay-Z shows up at the fights and events. Took pics with guys as they were signing contracts and has done interviews. And CEOs being too busy to show up at every TV interview is different then a CEO refusing to show his face publicly or do any interviews period. It would be like if the Commissioner of any of the other major sports refused to show up at any of the sporting events or grant interviews. Haymon has basically found a loop hole to being a Promoter and Manager at the same time which is illegal. There is a lot of shady things that surrounds this guy and him always in hiding just adds to it.

And like many have already said Floyd is his own boss so if he wants to fight Manny Haymon can't stop him. Haymon didn't make that fight happen Floyd did. And I'll believe Stevenson will fight Kovalev when I see it. Until then it's just like a lot of his fighters who say I want to fight so and so but Haymon is the one who controls it and makes them fight easy fights. If it were up to the fighters they would all be fighting tougher competition. Stevenson can say he wants the fight all he wants it means nothing. We all know who is controlling it

[The Big Dunn]

It's not about whether seeing the belts affected the fight. The point is he was hiding them because in the near future he plans on creating his own league and own belts. If that happens then his fighters will only fight each other

Jay-Z shows up at the fights and events. Took pics with guys as they were signing contracts and has done interviews. And CEOs being too busy to show up at every TV interview is different then a CEO refusing to show his face publicly or do any interviews period. It would be like if the Commissioner of any of the other major sports refused to show up at any of the sporting events or grant interviews. Haymon has basically found a loop hole to being a Promoter and Manager at the same time which is illegal. There is a lot of shady things that surrounds this guy and him always in hiding just adds to it.

And like many have already said Floyd is his own boss so if he wants to fight Manny Haymon can't stop him. Haymon didn't make that fight happen Floyd did. And I'll believe Stevenson will fight Kovalev when I see it. Until then it's just like a lot of his fighters who say I want to fight so and so but Haymon is the one who controls it and makes them fight easy fights. If it were up to the fighters they would all be fighting tougher competition. Stevenson can say he wants the fight all he wants it means nothing. We all know who is controlling it

you don't know that and will not answer the question because it in no way affected the quality of the fight, a fact that doesn't fit your agenda.

I ask again, have you seen the ceo of your bank do interviews?

You are losing credibility with each post.

[jjsmyth87]

you don't know that and will not answer the question because it in no way affected the quality of the fight, a fact that doesn't fit your agenda.

I ask again, have you seen the ceo of your bank do interviews?

You are losing credibility with each post.

Al haymon isn't the CEO of a bank, but legitimate businessmen will usually grant an interview here or there, yet he refuses to even want to be video taped or interviewed or anything. Its so that he doesn't have to answer questions as to all the shameful things that he has masterminded in boxing. These pbc matches so far are a joke. No belts? That's funny because the majority of the real top p4p fighters in the sport aren't even signed to haymon, so his practice of only dealing with his own fighters is making for the best possible matchups in boxing not take place as he has been responsible for already for doing for years.