Did RJJ Kill HBO Boxing?

[brocktonblockbust]

Roy Jones is one of the greatest fighters of all time

[mikeeod]

Roy Jones is one of the greatest fighters of all time

I don’t disagree with you on this. I think he is the most gifted ever, even more than Meldrick Taylor, Ali, and Floyd. I also agree with most that if he had fought all of the others considered his biggest threats he would’ve won almost all of them (everyone has style issues n bad days) and had the potential to surpass Ray Robinson as the GOAT. He didn’t accomplish those things however and that is the larger point of this post.

[brocktonblockbust]

Roy Jones is one of the greatest fighters of all time

I don’t disagree with you on this. I think he is the most gifted ever, even more than Meldrick Taylor, Ali, and Floyd. I also agree with most that if he had fought all of the others considered his biggest threats he would’ve won almost all of them (everyone has style issues n bad days) and had the potential to surpass Ray Robinson as the GOAT. He didn’t accomplish those things however and that is the larger point of this post.

I do agree with you that he did not accomplish those things.

[ykdadamaja]

Roy didn't do anything to HBO. HBO did in HBO with not reigning in LARRY MERCHANT when he dissed Floyd Mayweather and Mayweather had already had in mind to bolt to Showtime and carry all of Al Haymon's talent/stars with him. That was the beginning of the end. Merchant had been on Floyd's ass for nearly two years calling him boring and not watchable, breaking down the man's marketability. Merchant should have been reprimanded before it got that far- He did it to RJJ too and Lampley began to jump in on it for a while too.

Arum and King could not carry HBO up against a lineup like that. King was already out of the business, effectively, about that time and he never exclusively workd with HBO over Showtime anyway. Arum has a good stable, but you need more than just Manny Pac to carry a network.

All of this, and while I like Jim Lampley, he involves himself with the fighters so much and turns it into a sob-fest and that turns off hardcore, blood and guts guys who want CARNAGE and BLOODLAYS and NEAR FATAL ASSAULTS...

Gatta give it to Mauro Ronallo, he makes a brutal beatdown look exciting even though he is kinda like a cunt about it. ESPN is just doing what it can, but I submit, there is NO WAY ESPN or Fox Sports should be having TOP TIER boxing lineups with multiple titles on the line and HBO has NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT!!!

In the day, a Crawford fight of that magnitude could have only have been PPV. But HBO lost it's marketing prowess along the line somewhere- Right now a cuntish-feminist is in charge of the sports packaging or some cuck of a batty-boy who thinks contact sports should be replaced with soccer or tennis. Cunts!

Merchant should have just sat there and shut his yap and let Floyd be. Shortly after that run in on air with Mayweather where he said he would kick Mayweather's ass, he too was no longer on the air- as well he should have been fired for being a bias asshole.

Also, what Merchant's old ass did not seem to factor in while he was talking SHIT: Showtime, owned by CBS, had just gotten that (and was planning around that) 2013 SuperBowl money to help finance a Floyd multi-fight deal with what it was. SuperBowl 2013 broke records in TV revenue as well as put millions of dollars in side-revenue into CBS's pockets by promoting New Orleans.

Once CBS had that SuperBowl money counted for and counted out, Floyd did what every employee wished they could do when working for a cuntish boss: BITCH, FUCK YOUR JOB! I QUIT! ... and started his own business!

Mayweather and Manny's fight generated $600 MILLION in revenue for Showtime. The single highest grossing one day sport event until the 2016 Super Bowl and Mayweather MORE than paid back what he got paid for with Showtime and CBS.

And, even though HBO's production and output is FAR SUPERIOR to Showtime, Fox, NBC and ESPN, they forgot the core essence of fight fans an what they want to see.

They can come back: FIRE THE CUNTS IN THE FRONT OFFICE and get someone who knows what side the bread is buttered on.

PS: Kellerman is doing a good job as a boxing analyst, by the way. Lampley needs to retire and pass the reigns over.

[Master]

Larry Merchant was right about Floyd.

[ykdadamaja]

Larry Merchant was right about Floyd.

He lost money, though. I'm learning this adult thing- Sometimes being right does not mean it will help you!

[El Kabong]

Larry Merchant was right about Floyd.

He lost money, though. I'm learning this adult thing- Sometimes being right does not mean it will help you!

The fights Floyd could STILL have amaze me. The ones he might have don't intrigue me they would be Globetrotters vs Generals exhibition bouts....he could do it too not even hating.