Al Haymon has taken over. Completely

drama queen a$$$ ni99a

 

Cable networks didn't offer anyone MORE.

Go back and watch a tape of Holmes-Weaver. Listen how happy everyone sounds that every networks PASSED on the fight so they had to "settle" for the measley money they got from HBO.

Hell, Holmes didn't even make a dime on that fight. Weaver made like $50,000 (if that).

And the USA network at ESPN weren't paying more than CBS and ABC either. That's nonsense.

 

off topic, is there any truth about them mex meat being high on estrogen??

if it's true, it would help explain lsc, chavez jr and mikey garcia avoiding tough fights.

 

:rofl
Freddy stay wining over you noobs.

 

he ain't real.

if you look closer, it says made in mehico.

 

When Leo Santa Cruz fought a total nobody on CBS a couple years ago, it drew 1.5 million viewers.

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/8761607/return-network-tv-hit-boxing

I think MILLIONS watching won't be a problem.

 

HBO puts on Quality fights 90 percent of the time.
Al Haymon puts on mismatches 90 percent of the time.

 

Well, you won't have to pay for them anymore. So don't worry. And if he airs mismatches, he'll lose money. And, so far, he hasn't scheduled any.

So it's a win-win all around.

 

:bbb

 

Beat me to it :good

 

How much "more" do they have to offer?

In 1979, after the networks passed on Holmes-Weaver, ABC bought Holmes-Shavers. ABC paid Holmes a little more than $3 million. Shavers got a little less than that.

If you use the inflation calculator, $3 million today would be roughly $9.8 million in today's dollars. Just for Holmes.

Plus Roberto Duran was on the undercard, Sugar Ray Leonard was on the undercard, Wilfredo Gomez was on the undercard.

All told the network spent about $6 million on that one card in September 1979. Today, that's the equivalent of $18 million. And it wasn't even the only boxing card on that week.

HBO wouldn't spend anywhere near $18 million today for anything.

Don't sell advertisers or the networks short. The fans have always tuned in to fights on free network television.

 

Actually, it was a college basketball game. One of the teams was unranked.

Regardless, what do you think will be the lead-ins coming up?

College basketball games. Golf. NBA games. That's what CBS and NBC televise.

What does Showtime televise ... some movie from five years ago that's aired a thousand times?

Like I asked, what are you defending? If you want to pay to watch boxing on television, send me $75 on PayPal and turn on CBS.

I'll be glad to help you out.:hi:

 

I don't like Stevenson, and have criticized him hard over the past 12 months, but is the Bika fight that bad?

 

I think HBO paid a 10 mil license fee for Lewis-Klitschko after Johnson dropped out and they restructured the deal.

I want to say they spent 13mil for DLH-Forbes.

I agree HBO would not pay anything close to 18 mil today as the fights and big name fighters don't exist and make it economic feasible for a regular HBO card and not PPV. Most of the fees the last several years have been in the 3 mil or so range with a few exceptions :good

 

CBS spends nearly $1 BILLION (not million ... billion) a year to televise the NCAA basketball tournament which lasts two weekends.

They can pay more than HBO for anything.