The story I heard was there were powerful players in the game (Haymon-Showtime & DLH-HBO) blocking the WBSS from seeing US TV time. Had nothing to do with little interest. HBO shows fights all the time of 2 non American fighters, there were some really good title fights in the first season of the WBSS, it didn't get TV because people didn't want it to.
Schaefer had one job, to secure a US platform for the WBSS. A guy has spent his much of his boxing life in the US arranging deals..... Hearn/DAZN turn up and get the WBSS deal in 5 minutes. Guys like Di Bella and Schaefer spent many interviews slagging Hearn and saying he would not cut it...... Now they're working with the guy! Schaefer was rimming Hearn pre-fight of Bellew v Haye. Now Dibella is calling it 'A terrific time for boxers' when talking about Farmer with Hearn/DAZN.
That's interesting. You could argue that the WBSS model, bringing together boxers from different promoters, having them fight the best in a knockout format would undermine the PBC model.
The point I made stands. If there were big American fighters (or someone like Ramirez) in either instalment, they would have been broadcast in America. As expected you haven’t acknowledged my point, instead you’ve decided to just verbally bum Hearn once more.
This point @CutThroatFade "The first two instalments of the WBSS had very little interest from Americans because of the fighters involved, IIRC the only North American participant was Brant who has a low US profile anyway." Lomachenko/GGG are not North American.... Neither had anything but a 'Low US profile' on their US TV debut.... You only gain a 'profile' in any country after being exposed to it.
Hey Broner, yo ass needs Just for Men to staighten up the F-upt beard. Sh!t looks like grey pubes. Unless that's left over from when you cleaned Haymon's pipe! LOL
You don't need a tweet from broner to know and understand Hearn will fail in trying to colonize the American boxing scene. Americans are not as thick and gullible like the lemmings in the UK. And there's a reason why his snot nosed old man didn't even try to move out of his lane.
Correct me if I’m wrong but Lomachenko’s US TV debut was a world title fight with Salido. There was substantial interest. And there was enormous interest in Lomachenko generally from a US perspective because he was mooted as a potential opponent for so many big US based fighters. I don’t know the details of GGG’s American TV debut because I’m not a sad sack of **** who cares about these things. I only care about boxing. What do you know about his US tv debut? Who did he fight? Was he on an undercard? What were the viewers? Your “point” means nothing without these facts to substantiate them. It’s a fact that there was little interest from the American public in almost every fight in both divisions of the first WBSS tournaments.
"I only care about boxing." There's a free card on and you're going through this rubbish still. (Before you come up with your 'You're avoiding the point' routine, i'm actually watching the boxing and if you want me to reply after its finished, i will do)
I just came back from the gym and I am tuning in now. There was and still is zero in ring action while I replied to your post you ****ing nerd.
There's just been a brilliantly competitive SD scrap, and you first instinct is to bring this up rather than watch it? ffs man. Look, Broner isn't even liked by American boxing fans....I doubt Hearn cares about his opinion.
I just told you, you spastic, I’ve come back into the house. Turned the TV on and while there is no fight happening, I responded to your post which I hadn’t read until a few minutes ago. Stop trying to deflect from the fact that your arguments in this thread have been futile and slaughtered.