Why The Haymon Takeover Is Perfectly Timed....

Now before we get started please don't come in here and bash Haymon out of the gate and be an dummy. Take a second to see what i'm writing and see if you agree or disagree and then make a comment.


With that said... I would like to explain to a lot of you why the timing of PBC is literally PERFECT for the sport of boxing. I think the first thing you have to take into consideration is the business model for boxing on Subscription channels like HBO & Showtime. They probably don't make much money from their free to air fights like GGG vs _____ or Danny garcia vs ______ but the objective of showing these fights for free (after having a hbo/showtime subscription) is that they can build up an eventual PPV star which is where they make the big money at. I'm not sure where this started it may have been with Mike Tyson or Oscar De La Hoya but i'm going to lean towards mike tyson and ODLH was the next guy. After ODLH we had floyd mayweather being boxings next super star PPV guy.

Now that the two current best PPV fighters are about to square off most likely (floyd vs pac) boxing will be in a frozen state because there really isn't a guy that can really SELL ppvs at a high rate besides canelo potentially and cotto. I think Haymon saw this moment as an opportunity to put boxing BACK onto network television. With boxing on network television

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, how can I confirm this you ask? From a business standpoint if you think about it, Haymon or whoever runs the match making for PBC won't have to BUILD a fighter because the opportunity to garner fans will be so large (100s of millions of people can be watching network tv vs the 10s of millions who can watch HBO/showtime) that people will naturally gravitate to who they like and pay for a PPV if they REALLY have a love and appreciation for that fighter.


just like in the 70s-80s guys would suffer losses and still have the ability to sell a ppv, that is what you will see from the PBC because your record won't matter as much for generating a great ppv. All that will matter is if you have a lot of fans and you put on a great show in the ring. Hopefully you guys understand this and see how great of an opportunity this is for the sport of boxing. I hope that more and more guys continue to join the PBC and boxing can really re-establish its self in the forefront of the sporting world again.

 

These fights you mention are pre PBC days.

Quillin is now abotu to face andy lee which is a fight in teh right direction. Garcia is fighting LP which is also a good fight. Too early to tell what will happen with LSC & Rigo at this point, that fight very well could happen still.

it's common sense bro.

HBO subscribers = 28 mil
SHO subscribers = 23 mil

I can't even find the # for NBC subscribers but I bet it's upwards of 100-150 million. I'm not saying that any fight will have 100 million viewers but the potential to be seen is obviously much greater

 

we don't REALLY know what's happening here because we are only hearing from 1 source (ODLH) who doesn't play well with Haymon... Give it time dog. you can't knock him for missing 1 fight when he's already made 4-5 other great fights...


NBC has 96 million subscribers by the way...

 

why not. The past two years have been a build up to this moment. Any garbage that happened in the past 1-2 years were so he could set this up. A few years from now when boxing is kicking major ass nobody will remember anything from 2013-2014 besides floyd vs pac

 

I think as time goes on more and more fighters will join the PBC and eventually we will be able to see damn near ANY fight we want.

 

you gotta look at it like this....

If HBO puts on 3-5 good fights in 1 calendar year theyve done a really good job. That's basically a sick fight every 2 months. With the roster of 150 guys haymon can do that.

Every year that goes by Haymon will add more guys. People will see that there isn't any point in going to TR, GB, k2 etc if they have **** stables. There won't be anyone for them to fight. Look at GBP website right now, they have a garbage stable. Same with TR.