Al Haymon & Premier Boxing Champions

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Haymon is basically setting up his own version of professional boxing. He's going to cut out the existing sanctioning bodies and have his own PBC champions.

What that means is, if he's successful, is that you have PBC and then all the other promoters working with the WBC/A/O/IBF and so on. Boxing becomes even more bi or trifurcated than before, as it's highly unlikely that Haymon manages to sign every single boxing attraction out there.

For example, Kovalev-Stevenson is now an absolute nonstarter as Kovalev is on HBO and Haymon is never going to allow Stevenson to fight on HBO.

The best thing that can happen is for Haymon to bomb and the people bankrolling him to pull the plug. If that happens we go back to guys like Arum and Fishnets occasionally doing business with each other. Maybe these guys get into the habit of doing business while threatenend with Haymon and if/when Haymon does blow up they stay in the habit. So long term Haymon may turn out to be a good thing.

So you blame Haymon for no Kov/Stevenson fight even though they said they were happy to go to the purse bid and Kovalev asked that he be removed from his mandatory position so no purse bid would happen?

Did Haymon also cause the fall of the Romans?

Damn, I wish you hadn't ask that question. You ever heard of the Hot Tub Time Machine? There was a black dude in that Tub!