HBO dump Golden Boy

[Kirkland Laing]

HBO, the highest-rated boxing network, made the extraordinary decision Monday not to buy fights from Golden Boy Promotions, one of the sport's two biggest promoters, for the foreseeable future.
That will mean the exodus from the network of a number of Golden Boy stars, including lightweight champion Adrien Broner and light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins.
Broner, who is one of the rising stars in the sport, has done extraordinary ratings for HBO for a young fighter and has referred to himself in social media as "Mr. HBO Boxing." But at least until the issues between HBO Sports and Golden Boy are worked out, that will not occur.
Broner's contract with Golden Boy and adviser Al Haymon reportedly expires in April. Rap star turned boxing promoter Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has reportedly made an offer to Broner to join his company, SMS Promotions, when his Golden Boy deal is done.
HBO Sports president Ken Hershman, who formerly ran the boxing program at rival Showtime, made the decision to part ways with Golden Boy after running into issues with company executives.

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Interesting about Broner too. Can't see him signing for 50 Cent. If he does his new promoter will immediately call out Andre Ward and Floyd mayweather and the next time we'll see Broner fight is sixteen months from now on FNF.

[armin]

Wow first floyd leaves and now they part ways with goldenboy, can't see this hershman guy keeping his job to long.

[Beanflicker]

Yikes, looks like Showtime might take over the boxing world.

[ruthless rocco]

Yikes, looks like Showtime might take over the boxing world.

Showtime has been putting on good fights lately!

[IamInuit]

Not a big surprise really. Now the cold war will turn into a deep freeze.

[Rantcatrat]

Not a big surprise really. Now the cold war will turn into a deep freeze.

Yup. Not a big surprise. But, wow, this is literally going to be deep freeze. I don't see any thawing in the relationships for a long time. This is big.

HBO was worried that it would invest a ton of money in Broner, only to have him jump ship later on in his career, like Mayweather. Fair enough.

I wonder how this affects the mid-market promoters, Dibella, Shaw and the like. I bet it makes their fighters more in demand because no matter how deep the alleged stables are, at some they'll run out.

[beenKOed]

Not a big surprise really. Now the cold war will turn into a deep freeze.

It's a big surprise to me but I was wondering why Kellerman seemed to be buttering up Arum when they were comparing Bradley vs Provodnikov to the old time fights.
Personally, I don't want their fight to interfere with or limit the quality of the fights we see. This feuding boxing promoter bull has to stop.

[Mars_ax]

HBO, the highest-rated boxing network, made the extraordinary decision Monday not to buy fights from Golden Boy Promotions, one of the sport's two biggest promoters, for the foreseeable future.
That will mean the exodus from the network of a number of Golden Boy stars, including lightweight champion Adrien Broner and light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins.
Broner, who is one of the rising stars in the sport, has done extraordinary ratings for HBO for a young fighter and has referred to himself in social media as "Mr. HBO Boxing." But at least until the issues between HBO Sports and Golden Boy are worked out, that will not occur.
Broner's contract with Golden Boy and adviser Al Haymon reportedly expires in April. Rap star turned boxing promoter Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has reportedly made an offer to Broner to join his company, SMS Promotions, when his Golden Boy deal is done.
HBO Sports president Ken Hershman, who formerly ran the boxing program at rival Showtime, made the decision to part ways with Golden Boy after running into issues with company executives.

Y! SPORTS


Interesting about Broner too. Can't see him signing for 50 Cent. If he does his new promoter will immediately call out Andre Ward and Floyd mayweather and the next time we'll see Broner fight is sixteen months from now on FNF.

HBO boxing will survive and the competition them and Showtime will bring us fans great fights and be good for boxing.

[Kirkland Laing]

HBO, the highest-rated boxing network, made the extraordinary decision Monday not to buy fights from Golden Boy Promotions, one of the sport's two biggest promoters, for the foreseeable future.
That will mean the exodus from the network of a number of Golden Boy stars, including lightweight champion Adrien Broner and light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins.
Broner, who is one of the rising stars in the sport, has done extraordinary ratings for HBO for a young fighter and has referred to himself in social media as "Mr. HBO Boxing." But at least until the issues between HBO Sports and Golden Boy are worked out, that will not occur.
Broner's contract with Golden Boy and adviser Al Haymon reportedly expires in April. Rap star turned boxing promoter Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has reportedly made an offer to Broner to join his company, SMS Promotions, when his Golden Boy deal is done.
HBO Sports president Ken Hershman, who formerly ran the boxing program at rival Showtime, made the decision to part ways with Golden Boy after running into issues with company executives.

Y! SPORTS


Interesting about Broner too. Can't see him signing for 50 Cent. If he does his new promoter will immediately call out Andre Ward and Floyd mayweather and the next time we'll see Broner fight is sixteen months from now on FNF.

HBO boxing will survive and the competition them and Showtime will bring us fans great fights and be good for boxing.

Hopefully yes. Hopefully it'll be like when Don King went to Showtime twenty years ago.