Haye v Klitschko is on official .........apparently

[generalbulldog]

Haye has been live on primetime American TV. Showtime bought the Enzo Macc fight, which started around 2am in London.

HBO paid for Calzaghe-Kessler to start primetime USA - which meant early hours in Britain. Calzaghe-Lacy the same deal on Showtime, Froch-Dirrell, Hatton-Tsyzu etc.. there are plenty of fights HBO/Showtime will pay EXTRA to get the timezone in their favour.

These major TV companies have been refusing to buy Wlad fights on delayed coverage let alone competing to get him live. Fact.

I guess someone here got caught lying that HBO/Showtime didn't show 1 of Haye's fights or as someone would say the WBA titleholder.

Does anyone here think that prime Tyson, Holyfield, Lewis would be fighting on ESPN Classic and not HBO/Showtime when they were the lineal HW champs? Of course those guys were exciting that didn't bore both the casual and hardcore boxing fans so they would get picked up by America's premier cable networks. Fact.

[El Kabong]

Haye has been live on primetime American TV. Showtime bought the Enzo Macc fight, which started around 2am in London.

HBO paid for Calzaghe-Kessler to start primetime USA - which meant early hours in Britain. Calzaghe-Lacy the same deal on Showtime, Froch-Dirrell, Hatton-Tsyzu etc.. there are plenty of fights HBO/Showtime will pay EXTRA to get the timezone in their favour.

These major TV companies have been refusing to buy Wlad fights on delayed coverage let alone competing to get him live. Fact.

I guess someone here got caught lying that HBO/Showtime didn't show 1 of Haye's fights or as someone would say the WBA titleholder.

Does anyone here think that prime Tyson, Holyfield, Lewis would be fighting on ESPN Classic and not HBO/Showtime when they were the lineal HW champs? Of course those guys were exciting that didn't bore both the casual and hardcore boxing fans so they would get picked up by America's premier cable networks. Fact.

Mike Tyson - American, Evander Holyfield - American, Lennox Lewis - held the majority of his fights in America and was British/Jamaican/Canadian so he was 2/3rds Western Hemispherian.

But faaaaaar be it from me to explain HBO's reasoning all I know is that HBO was already trying to appease Wlad by trying to pick up the Chisora fight...why on earth would they have wanted to do that I do wonder.

You guys know my stance on this and I know yours back on the topic of the fight, there's no way Wlad loses and it's highly unlikely it will be anything close to competitive and I would say the exact some thing for every other heavyweight out there bar Vitali which would be a 50-50 fight at this point.

[badr_hari]

Mike Tyson - American, Evander Holyfield - American, Lennox Lewis - held the majority of his fights in America and was British/Jamaican/Canadian so he was 2/3rds Western Hemispherian.

Exactly. If the Klitschko's were Americans or British most of these guys would probably call them The Greatest of All Time. I live in Europe and don't give a sh!t if HBO or Showtime show the Klitschko's. I don't give a sh!t if somebody knows them in US or in Britain. They are popular in Europe as much as Michael Jackson and Europe is slowly becoming the center of the boxing world, with the Americans focusing more on MMA.

[No Contest]

I would just like to say that El Kabong does not represent the majority of Americans. Please do not harbor any ill will to the majority of Americans who could care less about Wlad. I am really pulling for Haye in this one, he may be a cocky s.o.b., but he has personality and is entertaining most of the time. Could be the boost the heavyweight division needs right now. It could also lead to a unified champion if he wins....finally.