HBO set to start new monthly Boxing series on HBO2?

It's cos they're guaranteed these days and could serve up some write tosh.

Why not say to the promoters..."right we've got $150k for a show but what can you offer us in return?" And make the promoters compete or work with each other to put on the best possible fights with the money on offer.

You get this in the UK as well..some promoters are promised dates by Sky and then put on rubbish fights that no one wants to see.

 

Its the gauranteed dates that I see as the problem. When each of these three promoters are gauranteed dates you are only goint to get the best card that the promoter and HBO are willing to agree to. If you make the date open to all promoters then you get competition for that date which will drive the quality up.

I think we will end up with a lot of showcase fights where each promoter will try to get their guy on HBO against the least dangerous opponent HBO will approve. HBO is basically eliminating competition for these dates and that makes little sense. And I'm sure Top Rank and HBO will work together plenty in the future and Don King has slowed down but he still has some talent on his roster.

 

Its seems so simple: HBO says we have this date and this amount of money now who is willing to offer what. Then the promoters offer what they can do and HBO picks the best from all the offers or uses the best offer as a bargaining tool with the other promoters to counter offer. I also love the idea of showcasing young talent and I'm sure we will get some good match ups but HBO takes a good idea and then handicaps itself by eliminating competition for those dates.

 

sweeet!!! hbo realized the ppl are starting to like showtime more so they gotta step there game up!!!

 

prove that competition is good

 

If you get say....Fernando Guererro vs Giovanni Lorenzo thats ok. IF we get Fernando Guererro vs a journeyman bum its not ok.

 

I don't think that's the case. Even with dates guaranteed HBO turned down a great deal of opponents lately, and when Arum sticked to Cotto-Mayorga, HBO rather pulled the plug entirely and came up with a better fight. So I'd assume they won't just hand out $150k and not have a word on the opponent. Is there anything that indicates otherwise?

 

andre bertos whole career plus matthew hatton in a mainevent.hbo is not consistent in the way it deals with promoters and dates

 

True, but they are much better lately, they pushed through a lot of solid fights like Williams-Martinez II, Martinez-Dzinziruk, Bradley-Alexander, Khan-Maidana, and turned down many others. I agree with Berto, but not entirerly with Alvarez-Matton. That was on Boxing After Dark which was always for lower caliber fights and nothing wrong with a 20yo prospect facing the European WW champion. What was insulting was the WBC's decision to make it a world title fight at LMW, but Matthew gave a fair account of himself, people found out some flaws in Alvarez' game while a huge crowd was entertained plus it drew good ratings - hardly a bad night for boxing at all.

 

Hope its better than KO Nation.