Quote Originally Posted by SweetPea
Quote Originally Posted by miles
Its a shame really. Boxing could do with a fight like Cotto: Judah being out on You tube. Its hardly going to turn people away from boxing and is a great advertisement for future big fights involving both fighters and other related big names.
Boxing needs to make a choice here.

I can understand why they don't want a $50 PPV fight available for free on youtube the day after it happens... that's bad business.

But they also have to realize how much exposure the sport gets thru a site like youtube. One of boxing's big problems is that they aren't drawing lots of young viewers anymore. Having fights on youtube can help that problem, because it gives kids who don't have $50 for PPV the chance to watch fights and get interested in the sport.

If they want to pull brand new fights off youtube, that's ok, but then HBO needs to sell the replay rights to a network like ESPN or ABC. If HBO is just going to show the fight on PPV, then replay it on HBO, and keep it off youtube or network TV, then they're losing fans and money in the long run.
I tried to make the same arguments to the people at TopRank but to them it's all about money, money, money.

Does the UFC have it's fights pulled from YouTube?