HBO Announces Today It Will No Longer Broadcast Boxing

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  1. Tomato(e) Can

    Tomato(e) Can Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao. banned Full Member

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    Facebook has a net worth of $68.9 billion dollars, guy. If they don't pursue boxing, it's because they don't want to and not for budgetary reasons.
     
  2. IsaL

    IsaL VIP Member Full Member

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    Not even that. Only matter exists forever.
     
  3. Tomato(e) Can

    Tomato(e) Can Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao. banned Full Member

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    I imagine your love for Drugnelo is equally as permanent.
     
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  4. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me Full Member

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    Death, taxes, and HBO Boxing are supposed to be the sure things.. :xqw
     
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  5. uppercut_to_the_body

    uppercut_to_the_body Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Super flyweights and Kovalev should go to ESPN

    Canelo and Munguia should go to Showtime

    Bivol, Jacobs and GGG to DAZN
     
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  6. Chuck Norris

    Chuck Norris Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Time also exists forever.
     
  7. ecdrm15

    ecdrm15 Boxing Addict Full Member

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  8. Badbot

    Badbot I Am An Actual Pro. Full Member

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    You know what i meant.
    The last GBP on Facebook got 50k to tune in live. It's not a big enough platform for someone like Canelo.
     
  9. Perkin Warbeck

    Perkin Warbeck Boxing aficionado banned Full Member

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    HBO made a bad mistake in having Max Kellerman as commentator.

    All he did was annoy people, no doubt he brought their ratings down.
     
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  10. Puroresu_Fan

    Puroresu_Fan Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  11. Blancrabello

    Blancrabello Member Full Member

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    Surely DAZN will have known about this last year. Sharholder meetings and such which never get made public, or if they do very discreetly, will have been available to the likes of Hearn and the DAZN execs. Maybe this was the play from those guys all along. To fill the gaping hole that the sad loss of HBO will bring. They had a fantastic run and given me some great memories in what is a relatively fledging fandom in the scheme of things. Touch wood the competitors can reinvigorate the American market.
     
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  12. Lazar

    Lazar Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I feel sad about it actually. :(

    PS: Kellerman can still burn in fire for all I care.
     
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  13. Blancrabello

    Blancrabello Member Full Member

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    This I can agree with. Perennially annoying, silver spoon fed, entitled **** wit. With about as much boxing knowledge as a drawer full of nails. Hopefully he doesn't get picked up and daddy will have to find him a job as a middle manager in an ailing hedge fund. A position a slimy greaseball like him should be well accustomed to. *****.
     
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  14. BUDW

    BUDW Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Boxing is so crooked maybe it's best if no network broadcast it until the crooks ate out
     
  15. Puroresu_Fan

    Puroresu_Fan Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    No doubt. Market research and market analysis would of told them that HBO year on year had decreased its budget for boxing and they would of seen a gap in the market.
     
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