^Yes, I remember that when HBO announces that they are living the boxing business for good. They have been reducing their budget and the reasons is the declining viewership. However, I think Stephen Espinoza of HBO then went to Sho after that and I thought it's all good. But I will speculate that it's the same reason though, maybe the overhead cause from business perspective is too big for even a company like Sho and obviously they are not making money out of the last 5 years after HBO department as their competitor. And for sure, there are people that are going to lose their jobs because of this bad news for the boxing industry. Yes, we still have DAZN and ESPN, or many a new company that will take over the cable viewership for boxing's biggest sporting event.
Bad news and for sure there are people who will be affected after this, though there's no option as the company needs to balance their expenses
against the income that possible to come up and see if what will be the best option.
They pick to close out or to move forward taking it out from their network, I guess it will affect those people who loves watching PPV though most of
the time now there are online platforms that will offer it illegally.
Right, I think some of us here grow watching HBO and Showtime Boxing events, and we would forget the biggest PPV on them all, the Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather. Because if I'm not mistaken, it was the first time that this two giant networks back then work hand in hand to bring this fight as Manny fight on HBO while Floyd is on Showtime platform.
But I guess nothing runs forever, and yeah it's interesting who is the option now, DAZN is newly established and then we still have ESPN but it's not as big as the other two networks. Perhaps the PPV was killed by illegal streamers and so they didn't get as much money as they want or as they used to be.
Well, you're right , I'm more interested in Espn because it's one of the networks that I like the most. They're also very attentive to the boxing analysis and they can make a difference. Keep in mind that what you're talking about about PPV events is for me the ideal outlet, especially when you have contracted more than 2000 channels and more than 500 Channels that are Only sports, this is what makes the Difference, I am one of those who loved Boxing, and I managed to watch it live when I was little just Starting out this sport when I saw Mike Tyson's event when he bit an ear, that was something that marked me a lot, I still remember that fight and I remember everything as if it had been true right now at that moment it didn't mark me a lot , because I felt that this sport makes People feel emotions so strongly that they are capable of doing things like that, it really surprised me a lot and I can't do anything other than from that moment on proacting it more , Obviously When you see other boxers and their Style you can determine more. or less his Strategy, his Technique, and the Way he fights and hits, that's what I first studied.
Regarding the Pacquiao and Mayweather fight, it was something that I didn't like on the surface and it's something that left me with a bad taste in my mouth, because I basically expected a good rematch, and the first thing Mayweather said was that he didn't , that he was not going to give him revenge, and at that time Pacquiao, because he was more Interested in politics than in boxing itself, told him that it's fine, but that was a fight where I saw that the best Thing Mayweather did was run through the ring. ring, I appreciated that Pacuiao was always Looking for the prize, and never went to look for the fight as such, because these types of things are what I think should improve, and I was not at all in agreement with what the judges determined, because they rewarded a boxer He didn't look for the opponent but focused on a mere technical fight and that was kind of Boring.
