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going to pay per view and Showtime ruined boxing. You could watch serious championship fights on network tv. Boxing may have made more money but it cut off the good stuff from kids whose families didn't purchase fights or get certain cable channels. They made their money and now wonder why people have lost interest. They got too cute.

Guy can't be all bad if he's bringing the sport back to the networks. Who won the last fight? I flipped over to the Wild game and missed the end.

You're a Wild fan?

You were choking Blackhawks dick last night

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Marciano1

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I knew it was a matter of time before you came in here with your bias.

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I knew it was a matter of time before you came in here with your bias.

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My bias? Please go do a little research on Haymon and come back here and try to tell me he's good for boxing. He's a smart businessman, I'll give him that, but the only people who will say anything nice about him are the misinformed fans or the fighters/analysts on his payroll. That is a fact. Haymon is trash.

There's a reason he was banned from HBO boxing in 2013. Just go do some reading.

I'm betting we see a KO here soon.

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He was banned from HBO because he actually wanted to pay his fighters what they were worth not the pennies HBO wanted to pay. And we all know HBO is in bed with Arum and Oscar. That's why HBO Sports is now a dying brand and they are firing everyone.

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Ok so if you were an HBO executive, you would be perfectly happy with cutting your boxing budget by almost 25% just so you could have enough money in the pot to pay Andre Berto $1 million twice/year so he could fight trash from Mexico City like Freddy Hernandez? Are you f*cking kidding me?

Haymon paid Danny Garcia almost $1 million to fight a dude two weight classes BELOW him and WASN'T EVEN RANKED in his class. Are you f*cking kidding me?

Sure, if you are people like Andre Berto, Danny Garcia, Adrien Broner, Keith Thurman, etc. it's great that you get paid a shite load of money to fight alcoholics, landscapers, construction workers, etc. But are you telling me that premium cable subscribers should be happy to see these supposedly elite fighters fighting trash time after time? Am I supposed to just ignore that fact and just be happy that they are getting paid? F*ck that, man, I'm a fan and I wanna see FIGHTS, not overpaid "elite" fighters fighting garbage over and over again.

Haymon brought that garbage to HBO and they kicked him out. Now you're seeing Showtime doing the same thing now....they keep broadcasting these Haymon specials where it's all Haymon A-sides vs. someone you've never heard of.


Can you imagine the New England Patriots playing Tulane, ULL, Amite High School, etc every week? That would be Al Haymon's vision if he were running an NFL team. He wouldn't dare let his Patriots play an actual NFL team.

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Boxing may have made more money but it cut off the good stuff from kids whose families didn't purchase fights

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Boxing was dying a syphilitic death and like any good escort (or hell any University wanting students) made it exclusive to increase mystery and demand.

"It must be special if I can never see these guys box unless I shell out $59.99" became the refrain.

Boxing didn't die because pay-per-view...it extended it's sad life for another decade.

And once an American stopped being Heavyweight champ...American turned the channel off as they could.

Only Latinos continued watching welterweights and lightweights in the 90's.

spence is fricking punishing the body