Why don't HBO allow fighters to thank their fans and team after winning?????

They do it because of time constraints. Usually the fight just ended and they only have a few seconds to squeeze the interview in. It just sucks that they feel like their questions are more important than the fighter thanking his people for a hard deserved victory.

 

Meanwhile that old senile ******* takes 5 minutes to construct a sentence.

 

:rofl

 

HBO pays you to fight... not to thanks the people around you.

 

All praise be to allah.

 

Because their interviewers are the very worst in boxing. They think we would rather hear the assessments of a bunch of biased, senile, and cowardly commentators rather than what the fighters have to say. HBO is only worth watching if you mute the sound.

 

I think they do it because they know many of the fighters aren't going to be thanking their fans, they will be sending shout outs to t shirt companies or other people that will throw them money if they get their names mentioned. In Chad Dawson's case he would be thanking condomdepot.com.

 

It is pretty disprespectuful to the fighter, he puts in all the work, he should at least get to speak his mind after the fight

 

Spot on

 

It is rude, but I can understand why they do it.

There have been plenty of cases in the past with controversial results where they wanted to get a fighter's opinion on the controversy and all the fighter did was waste the airtime allotted to them by thanking their agent, their agent's parents, the chick at the health-food store, god, god's cousin, god's favorite beer etc. If the fighters hadn't learned to duck uncomfortable questions by wasting answer time like politicians, the media wouldn't have had to start grilling them like politicians.

The solution would be to allow more discussion time and then they could do both, but then I suspect that contractually it's the promoter and the agents / fighters themselves that set the time limit.

 

Watch after Beats JT for the mw title and he grabs Merchants mike.....look at the look Larry gives him.

 

I'm guessing it's because there are post fight press conferences, website blogs and so on where fighters have plenty of opportunities to thank their friends, family and fans. HBO have a very limited amount of time to get the interview in, so they'd rather talk about the fight itself, instead of us having to listen to the same old 'Thanks to my family, thanks to my fans' for the 1000th time.