Haymon Update

**Rantcatrat** · 10-03-2014 07:41 PM

On the other hand, he has signed so many fighters, it seems that naturally he'll have enough talent to make compelling fights when he wants to.

**Spicoli** · 10-04-2014 05:07 AM

Eventually fighters will become wise to Haymon passing them around like pawn shop tickets in order to blind the next mark with dollar signs. Networks ecspecially nbc have a long run in dealing with promoters and demand product and payoff as they know College football, LPGA and a menu of other already established afternoon sports roam wide on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. This won't be some sausage making factory hiding on the back page of a cable guide where GBP can feed no hopers into the wood chipper for its manicured prospects. But frankly boxing on 'free' cable no matter how you parse it is a good thing and I seriously doubt we will see the demise of hbo and showtime anytime soon under the tyrannical reign of one lord Vader Haymon...I think Kathy Duva sounds a bit rattled and we as fans will continue to call out bullcrap match ups when we see it.

**Kirkland Laing** · 10-06-2014 08:50 PM

I read he's getting four or five premium dates on NBC and a lot of dates on NBC cable and he's apparently going to start some kind of PPV or subscription channel on top of that. Four or five big cheques isn't going to keep all those fighters he has signed happy and if his pay channel doesn't work and HBO and Showtime start publicly offering his fighters bigger cheques than he can offer it's going to get interesting.

And how does Haymon work as a promoter and a manager? Get the Watson twins to manage the fighters? Although in some cases the fighters have managers (even co-managers) and Haymon as advisor. Ten percent for the trainer, fifteen for Haymon and up to twenty five for the manager(s). That's a lot for a fighter to pay out and I'm sure those fuckers all get paid off the top, then you've got the taxman taking half of what's left. Haymon better come through with the revenues or he's going to have lots of unhappy fighters.

**imp** · 10-06-2014 11:07 PM

Originally Posted by Rantcatrat

On the other hand, he has signed so many fighters, it seems that naturally he'll have enough talent to make compelling fights when he wants to.

Is that alittle compliment for haymon?

**Rantcatrat** · 10-06-2014 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by imp

Originally Posted by Rantcatrat

On the other hand, he has signed so many fighters, it seems that naturally he'll have enough talent to make compelling fights when he wants to.

Is that a little compliment for Haymon?

Haymon for the most part has done great for his clients or he wouldn't continue to sign new fighters and he wouldn't make his fighters a lot of money. There is no disputing that. Whether he is great for the fans remains to be seen.

On that note, there is some dispute as to whether he makes good fights regularly too. Where 2013 was a banner year for Showtime boxing, 2014 has been horrible. This is when Haymon has the largest crop of American fighters that can only fight on Showtime because they aren't welcome on HBO. Why haven't we seen better fights?

Remember also he has veto power on his fighter's fights. So, even if Kid Chocolate decided he wanted to fight Korobov, Haymon can veto it. How many times has that happened?