HBO's refusal to show Wlad Klitschko's fights: In retrospect, was it a good decision?

Your right on the money. Ward fights the best and that is why he is on HBO.

 

I don't find either Klit exciting to watch , just like bhop, ward , dawson , even mayweather at times, but that's not the reason Klits are not on HBO. What foreign fighters are on HBO if they fight abroad?

 

He'll be on hbo if fight takes place in US.

 

You've clearly missed the point yet again, which isn't surprising atsch

Wlad is keeping busy defending his titles whilst staying active, Ward has fought once since 2011. When a champion is as active as Wlad, of course they will take keep busy fights against soft opponents. Ward's next defence was going to be Pavlik Who's an unranked bottom feeder, what has Pavlik done exactly in the last 3 years and at SMW?

My point stands, both fighters are terribly boring, therefore that is not the reason why HBO won't air Wladimir's fights

 

I think HWs bring in more ratings naturally, even if they are boxing. Vitali-Arreola and Vitali-Adamek did much better ratings wise. So I'm not sure. Although nothing was really missed.

 

No, Wlad has mandatory's hes not honouring and is chosing to take no risk fights since 2011.
He brought Mormek out of a two year retirement to give him a shot.
What other champs are fighting retied zombies and guys nobody ever heard of two years on the trott? Name one.
Pavlik is a good boxer and is well known and liked.
Ifs its not because they are boring , why dont HBO air his fights?

 

And doesn't pick an opponent who's ****.

 

Who should wlad fight next?

 

Tony Thompson was a mando and I'm sure he'll fight Povetkin next summer and Kubrat next year

Can't argue with this, that was a terrible fight :-(

Saul Alvarez

No, Pavlik is completely shot, has done nothing in years and did nothing to earn this title shot. He's every bit as much a bottom feeder as Wach and Thompson

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I don't know, it could be a contractual dispute with K2 promotions, could be anything. You don't know either, you're just making assumptions because you're a Klitschko hater

 

Austin Trout is a retied zombie nobody ever heard of?

Its not a contractual dispute because the aired the fight with Haye because he was a world champ.
He was dropped because he fights are ****. Sky also dropped him after Mormek.
When the unifed HW champ cant sell PPV or even get on major networks its clear hes doing everything wrong.

 

Definitely not eurobum Pianeta, but I was of course talking about if he was to come back to the US.

 

Except that whole win streak, heavyweight champion of the world side job that he has.

If only he focused on being a clown for the average Joe's entertainment. That is clearly the priority for a top athlete.

 

Sky? Who cares about limey tv channels.

 

And Wladimir will fight Povetkin in the summer, so what's your problem? Look at who Alvarez has fought since winning the vacant title against Matthew Hatton, shot fighters and bottom feeders

Are you going to provide any proof of this? You make an awful lot of claims without anything to substantiate them, my guess is you're making it all up

 

You dont know he will fight Povektin. Nothing is signd. Provide proof of what? That HBO aired the Haye fight?