HBO NOT doing a Cotto v Margarito countdown.....

[Diane]

Son of a biatch!!!

It is true, they are not doing one. Dan Rafael had this in his blog.

Some bad news folks: HBO has no plans to produce one of its outstanding half-hour countdown shows previewing the Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito pay-per-view fight on July 26. When Top Rank president Todd duBoef told me that, I was shocked. How does what might be the best fight of the year on paper not warrant a preview show when so many far lesser fights have gotten the royal treatment from HBO? This one is a compelling match rich with storylines. To blow this one off is a bizarre move and one of the most incredibly poor decisions the HBO brass has ever made with regard to boxing programming this side of signing off on all of those terrible Roy Jones mandatory fights back in the day along with the creation of the stinkbomb series "KO Nation." And keep this in mind -- HBO doesn't even have to pay the roughly $125,000 production cost of the countdown shows. The promoters pay for them out of the marketing budget for the pay-per-view. Something just doesn't feel right about this decision. It makes me wonder about a hidden agenda at HBO.

In his chat today, he said HBO is reconsidering, since I guess, they are getting a lot of flack from the media, and fans. So I call on all of you to help push HBO to do the right thing.

Go to this link, and tell HBO what you think of them not doing a show for the fight of the year.

HBO Online: Corporate Info

Oh, and please post this link on any other boxing forum that you go to.