Al Haymon has taken over. Completely

This^^^

UFC is on a huge trend down because they promised FOX more dates than they have quality fighters. Nobody gives a **** about the UFC anymore because of all the **** fights and **** fighters.

Haymon is trying to do the same thing. You will get a few good fights but the majority will be mismatches or can vs can.

Just look at the what the UFC has spiraled downward into. They are circling the bowl because they spread themselves too thin.

Don't get me wrong I want to see boxing on free tv, but if the fights are ****, who cares if it's free or not.

Haymon has tv dates to fill and not enough quality fighters to fill them with.

 

keep it up and i'll waive my ban stick over ur username

 

I don't see how boxing can be successful on mainstream TV as most of the general public don't care about it. I guess it depends how they market certain fighters, you have to build a fighters story and people follow that story. People have never watched sport for the sake of watching quality skill, I mean the 2 best cricket teams in the world could be playing right now and I wouldn't really care.

People has always followed people and teams, someone they can root for because they know their story or at least their career. Same way Amir Khan became big in UK, he was an Olympic medalist who was knocking people out on the biggest sporting stage there is, then he was fighting on mainstream TV once a month. Once people saw a couple of fights, they want to see the next fight because they are now following his career. Same story with Tyson, ODLH, SRL.

Haymons biggest hope would be his fights produce dramatic results, enough to the point that the fighters create a following. However boxers dont fight often enough these days, its hard to "follow" someone when they only fight once or twice a year. Imagine your favourite Tennis player, Wrestler, basketball team only played once a year? You'll quickly forget about them.

The Contender was perhaps the best shot, a story told in reality TV format and the audience can see their fav boxer fight again just week or 2 later not waiting 6 months. It had millions tuning in but that still wasn't enough to keep on air. Without the story telling and all the fake drama, I don't see average joe waiting around 6 months for Vanes Martirosyan for example.

 

It's not like "community" television at all. Jesus Christ.

He's paying for the broadcasts, they aren't. The networks are still selling advertising during the telecasts. The demographics and the viewing numbers will determine how much the ad rates are going forward.

It's a compromise to get on the air. He'll pay for the broadcasts initially, they sell ads, and they decide if they want to move ahead when the deal is up.

He's putting his money where his mouth is. If people watch, and the network makes money (and he's rigged it so they will regardless), they can sign another deal later.

It's fascinating. Typically, a network will pay someone (like NBCSports paid Kathy Duva) a modest sum (like a $100,000) to put on a show. And she delivered some relatively unknown ****py guys, and developed some talent (like Kovalev) along the way. And it worked out. But it was very limited in scope. Kathy didn't put up her own money. She was limited by the budget.

Haymon is footing the budget, so he can put on whatever fights he wants. The more people watch, the better it is for him and the network ... the network makes more money and he can sign a bigger deal with them after this initial deal expires.

And he's making deals with multiple networks. CBS and NBC sign multi-year, multi-billion-dollar deals to air pro sports. Some of those deals, like the $11 billion NCAA tournament deal CBS signed, is to air a tournament that runs a little over two weekends a year. They've got money to spend.

Haymon's clearly got his eyes set on signing a multi-year mammoth deal with one of them when this deal expires -- or he'll be broke. One or the other. It's very cool, actually.

Floyd's blowing his money on jewelry and strippers. Haymon's spending his trying to get a billion-dollar network deal.

And we don't have to pay to watch it!

 

This.

 

I'm not overstating boxing. I'm saying they aren't handing out deals to a sport that's basically been off network television for nearly two decades.

Boxing's going to be on multiple networks for two years. Let's see how it does.

What's the problem with that?

Boxing was a pretty big sport when it was on free national television. And the networks freely spent money on it.

You've got to put it back on and see who watches before you get can promise advertisers anything.

I have no idea what people have such a big problem with this. If you hate Al Haymon, fine. If he messes this up, he'll be broke in two years. If he's successful, that means boxing got big ratings on national television, put on good fights, and the sport picked up a lot of fans.

What the hell's wrong with that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbPpX9XM7sU

 

NBC's Dateline averages 3 to 4 million viewers on Saturday nights.

If that Al Haymon card on NBC March 7 generates 3 to 4 million viewers (or more) ... some of you guys are going to sh*t a brick.

What was the NBA All-Star Game viewership again? 5 million?

 

The status quo is no good. Let's elect the devil to run things. :-(

 

No one told you to buy pay per views. Wait a week until it airs on a rerun. Or see if you can find some video of the fight online. I'd never pay the kind of money these clowns are asking for one card. A movie is just as good, just as long, and costs about ten bucks. I get a month of Netflix for 8 bucks. You can get a good book for six or seven bucks. I bought a videogame for five bucks yesterday off steam. I wouldn't pay more than twenty bucks for any media I didn't get a permanent hard copy for.

 

It's no more niche than mma and mma does fine on a couple of channels. The reason it isn't regularly on networks is because they couldn't guarantee a belt would be on the line every week. As soon as you sign a fighter in boxing to an exclusive deal, he'll lose to a German or a Japanese fighter who takes the belt overseas where the network doesn't air.

 

Lol look at some of these clowns hoping All Hay on fails and that nobody watches these fights. I want boxing to be a mainstream sport again and Haymon has the best shot at doing that

 

It's on network tv you cheap *******s.

 

If he airs title fights in prime time on free television for years ... he isn't the devil.

You guys are starting to sound like fans of a band who prefer that nobody knows about them. And when band is on the verge of breaking out to a wider audience, all of a sudden the band sucks.

 

Now you don't have to.

Problem solved.