HBO to show UFC! What does this mean for boxing?

[Lords Gym]

Then Greenburg adds words that are music to the ears, saying, "We're going to invigorate Boxing After Dark by loosening our commitments to promoters. Our last commitment is in June and, after that, we're going to abandon the practice of giving dates to promoters without specific fights attached. It has cramped our style and it just hasn't worked. We'll also dig our feet in a little more on mismatches and not give in to promoters, managers, and fighters who don't want to take a risk."
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Now that’s what I am talking about ! Balls to the walls approach... all these soft cakes and mismatches are F****** up boxing. I been preaching all along, that it matchmaking ! you get the right guys in there and you got a F****** fight ! Take the feather dusters out of the game unless they want in tough !

CC bro, interesting read

my pleasure brother.. CC back at yeah !

[Violent Demise]

Boxings been on it's deathbed for as long as I can remember. Yet it never dies. That's cuz it can't die. I ain't worried about this UFC shit. Boxing ain't going anywhere.

[SalTheButcher]

The more ufc i watch and how the fights end when one guy just throws highly inaccurate punches til the ref calls it off, the more i wanna punch a baby.

u need to watch pride


ufc is like 97% amatuer guys who wouldnt be much good after 10 years as a pro anyway, you need to watch pride, the jobbers from pride could come to ufc and be champs

[Punisher136]

As much as i despise mma in its entirety i can stand watching a couple pride matches here and there if there's nothing else on tv. I still don't want mma to be a dominating sport money making wise, but if it must be shown on tv i would perfer them show pride than ufc.

[Punisher136]

I think boxing would improve if people just quit settling for less. Mayweather/ de la hoya is what the sport needs. Might be boring, might not be but it is without a doubt one of the best matchups available for the sport. They need to quit chasing history by taking the easy route.

Boxing isn't about money, it's about making other people shut up. It's about proving critics wrong by taking the high road regardless of money. One big fight will net you 1mil+. Now i don't know about anyone else but 1mil would easily supply a comfortable living environment for me. There's no need to get shiny wheels or exspensive shoes when they are gonna come incontact with dirty surfaces 99% of the time they are in use.

[killersheep]

I think boxing would improve if people just quit settling for less. Mayweather/ de la hoya is what the sport needs. Might be boring, might not be but it is without a doubt one of the best matchups available for the sport. They need to quit chasing history by taking the easy route.

Boxing isn't about money, it's about making other people shut up. It's about proving critics wrong by taking the high road regardless of money. One big fight will net you 1mil+. Now i don't know about anyone else but 1mil would easily supply a comfortable living environment for me. There's no need to get shiny wheels or exspensive shoes when they are gonna come incontact with dirty surfaces 99% of the time they are in use.

That's why I like the lower weight classes, you don't see those guys on MTV cribs, but they sure as hell don't duck each other. (WONGJONKAM is the exception )

[Punisher136]

I think boxing would improve if people just quit settling for less. Mayweather/ de la hoya is what the sport needs. Might be boring, might not be but it is without a doubt one of the best matchups available for the sport. They need to quit chasing history by taking the easy route.

Boxing isn't about money, it's about making other people shut up. It's about proving critics wrong by taking the high road regardless of money. One big fight will net you 1mil+. Now i don't know about anyone else but 1mil would easily supply a comfortable living environment for me. There's no need to get shiny wheels or exspensive shoes when they are gonna come incontact with dirty surfaces 99% of the time they are in use.

That's why I like the lower weight classes, you don't see those guys on MTV cribs, but they sure as hell don't duck each other. (WONGJONKAM is the exception )

Indeed they are probably the best skilled athletes in the sport come from dirt poor backgrounds and fight for everything they get but because they aren't over eating they don't get noticed.

[tuckwopat]

The more ufc i watch and how the fights end when one guy just throws highly inaccurate punches til the ref calls it off, the more i wanna punch a baby.

u need to watch pride


ufc is like 97% amatuer guys who wouldnt be much good after 10 years as a pro anyway, you need to watch pride, the jobbers from pride could come to ufc and be champs

some of the pride guys are coming to UFC. Crocop is fighting a UFC fight in Feb., and he might be the best they have to offer.

[killersheep]

The more ufc i watch and how the fights end when one guy just throws highly inaccurate punches til the ref calls it off, the more i wanna punch a baby.

u need to watch pride


ufc is like 97% amatuer guys who wouldnt be much good after 10 years as a pro anyway, you need to watch pride, the jobbers from pride could come to ufc and be champs

Butterbean fights in Pride now, just so you know.

[Punisher136]

The more ufc i watch and how the fights end when one guy just throws highly inaccurate punches til the ref calls it off, the more i wanna punch a baby.

u need to watch pride


ufc is like 97% amatuer guys who wouldnt be much good after 10 years as a pro anyway, you need to watch pride, the jobbers from pride could come to ufc and be champs

Butterbean fights in Pride now, just so you know.

hey i still think all mma is a joke but atleast pride fights are manageable to watch because i don't have to hear joe rogan praise some bum when he wins a fight in a garbage way.

[boozeboxer]

Piss on UFC. I really don't think these guys are as talented as boxers. I think it is an inferior sport. I hate it and hope they all try a real hobby. My friends watch UFC, and to be frank I am friends with immature people with a short attention span who don't appreciate boxing. They also don't appreciate reading either.
I only buy Showtime and HBO to see fights. The day they cut back seriously on boxing they will lose a customer and I don't think I am the only one. They charge way to much to show the same fucking shows over and over.

[Puya]

I said this was gonna happened but the problem is that SHOWTIME like HBO will make the same dammage they did to boxing because the only fights they are going to show are the one they say it's not gonna be like now that everyone fights everyone.

O ther stuff I notice is tha boxers aroun their 30's and don't se any $$$ soon in their life are turning into MMA. there is gonna be some woop ass in there unless they start the huggin in the ground
" brokeback wrestling"

[gyrokai]

In 2006, HBO engendered 3,700,000 pay-per view buys with $177,000,000 in gross sales

Boxing is here to stay my friends ! any corporate executive that would mess with that number would soon find themselves on the unemployment line.

cc Exactly!

Which is why HBO just did a VERY STUPID MOVE on it's part. Just when it practically had a monopoly on big fights. Pacquiao, Mayweather, Wladimir, Mosley, Barrera and much more.