Mandatory Eight Count: Potential shake-up at HBO?
by Scott Christ on Sep 30, 2009 6:37 PM EDT
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HBO and Boxing - At a Crossroads | MaxBoxing.com
Thomas Hauser takes a look at a potentially huge boxing story. Could Ross Greenburg be in trouble at HBO? Senior management reportedly wants to hear a real "plan" from Greenburg, and one source says, "The problem is that any plan Ross puts forward will be met with skepticism because, when it comes to boxing, his biggest initiatives have failed. His plan to hitch HBO’s wagon to Golden Boy and the Golden Boy output deal have been a disaster. And the idea of anointing Victor Ortiz, Alfredo Angulo, James Kirkland, Robert Guerrero, and Chris Arreola as HBO’s stars of the future doesn’t look so good."
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The HBO deal concerns me
Where does boxing go if it’s not on HBO? The network thing sounds like a pipe dream to me personally.
"I swear to God, I'll take this ******* ball and shove it down your ******* throat" - Serena Williams
I don’t think they’ll wind up with boxing off the network, but it sounds like Ross Greenburg might (if Thomas Hauser’s sources are to be believed) be on the way out. Or this could all wind up being nothing.
Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by Scott Christ on Sep 30, 2009 9:09 PM EDT up reply actions
As I interpret it
They feel like he doesn’t control costs effectively enough. And they’re right. He pays big bucks for fights nobody else would buy in the hopes that it will lead to a future big fight. That business model just doesn’t work well. Make the big fights, but don’t pay $3M+ for Dawson-Tarver just because you want to get a Dawson-Johnson rematch. They’re just bidding against themselves when they do that (Showtime doesn’t have the budget to compete), and it increases the cost of airing future big fights. What HBO SHOULD be doing is estimating what a PPV would bring in between the two fighters, then guarantee just over that amount. Dawson-Tarver II wasn’t worth $500k, much less $3M.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Greenburg comes across like a nitwit boss from a sitcom. Like Michael Scott without the heart of gold.
ya 'avin' a laugh?
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
i blame sonofapsycho for this btw
i’m kidding around btw so please don’t ban me for baiting/trolling
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by battle axe of doom on Sep 30, 2009 11:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Confident your not going to get banned
But, what do you mean? I don’t get the bait.
"I swear to God, I'll take this ******* ball and shove it down your ******* throat" - Serena Williams
haha yeah all you got do is mention the words hbo/jim lampley/any other hbo-related phrases and sonofapsycho will go on his “hbo is the worst thing to ever exist” posts. we both actually got warned because we went into a semi-flame war over it
The Dude Abides
by battle axe of doom on Oct 1, 2009 1:36 AM EDT up reply actions
Banned for failure to properly use apostrophe
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
fuck that if boxing is not on HBO i can’t watch it. i NEED hbo boxing
The Dude Abides
by battle axe of doom on Sep 30, 2009 8:46 PM EDT reply actions
Great article by Hauser
He ain’t the president of the BWAA for nuthin.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Probably the most knowledgeable, well-researched and thought provoking article on the boxing/broadcaster relationship that I have ever read.
Ultimately, it reads as quite an indictment of Ross Greenburg’s competence as the head of boxing on HBO. If half of the accusations are true, then he should be replaced for the good of the network, the sport and the fans
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