Enter PBC on Prime - Paramount Global To Shut Down Showtime Sports; Network Will No Longer Broadcast Boxing

[TheNig]

shyt. Teo called it two years ago.

Talk about the chicken coming home to roost...

 

[patscorpio]

And lol at ppl trying to downplay Shawn Porter in this thread..I'm not even a fan of his and criticized him. But he was part of arguably the 2 best fights that PBC ever aired on some 1a/1b shyt with Thurman and Spence..calling him a c lister is dumb..save that for Danny Garcia or Andre Berto or Ghost

 

[Bleed The Freak]

And lol at ppl trying to downplay Shawn Porter in this thread..I'm not even a fan of his and criticized him. But he was part of arguably the 2 best fights that PBC ever aired on some 1a/1b shyt with Thurman and Spence..calling him a c lister is dumb..save that for Danny Garcia or Andre Berto or Ghost

He only became a C fighter when he faced Bud on a Top Rank card.

I mean damn. And we all know Bob and his terrible practices at times. All we ask is nikkas be fukkin consistent.

If Arum or Oscar was on their 10th TV deal this board would have a field day.

 

[JamesJabdi]

PBC brings eyes to the sport of boxing like no other promotion is currently doing. Dudes on here talking about they are as critical to other promotions are lying they ass off. I been on this sub for a short while and the energy for PBC is diffrent then they are for these other companies....you can feel the intense hatred

Dudes be making conspiracy theories and other deluded narratives meanwhile you have Teofimo and Shakur not putting up the numbers they should with Top Rank......Canelo running from GB and Ryan trying to do the same.....Eddie Hearn talking about AJ vs Wilder for all of 2023 taking place in Saudi Arabia for this December and its not even happening....you can't even compare the output that PBC has had in 2023 with these other companies but dudes still talking about what PBC doing wrong after a grand year like this .....you can't make this shyt up

 

[Bleed The Freak]

PBC brings eyes to the sport of boxing like no other promotion is currently doing. Dudes on here talking about they are as critical to other promotions are lying they ass off. I been on this sub for a short while and the energy for PBC is diffrent then they are for these other companies....you can feel the intense hatred

Dudes be making conspiracy theories and other deluded narratives meanwhile you have Teofimo and Shakur not putting up the numbers they should with Top Rank......Canelo running from GB and Ryan trying to do the same.....Eddie Hearn talking about AJ vs Wilder for all of 2023 taking place in Saudi Arabia for this December and its not even happening....you can't even compare the output that PBC has had in 2023 with these other companies but dudes still talking about what PBC doing wrong after a grand year like this .....you can't make this shyt up

Here's an easy statement.

Boxing is rotten and PBC is no different then the rest. The difference is PBC is the only one that gets their manager/owner referred to as "Allah", "The Great" etc instead of how we talk about Oscar, Bob or Eddie like the dikkheads they are.

No one on GBP, Top Rank or Matchroom says 'wrong side of the street ' except PBC fighters when asked about matchups or opposition. See Errol Spence circa 2020-2022. As if fighters at other promotions were inferior. And this board lapped it up. Ask anyone who's been on here.

For some reason when PBC gets brought up dudes get real defensive and emotional about the situation.

At no point should they have ran thru this many networks. I want them to succeed I'm a fight fan first.

 

[Forsaken]

They mad a lot of money on PPVs don’t be fooled they just have to downsize everything at the company. ESPN still making money. Rights deals for other sports keep getting bigger and bigger.

Scripted content is cheaper. NBA has dropped the price of their league pass in half. They want the eyeballs.

I'm assuming the asking price by PBC wasn't worth it so they scrapped it.

 

[Bigblackted4]

Candidates yes..in some years..but never the best fight..thee FOTY..hell even in this year alone with the roster they got nery vs hovhannisyan is still the best fight to air this year..that's the problem..matchmaking problem

I mean it’s kind of not they fault that some of he matchups didn’t live up in to the hype. I don’t think that was the FOTY by the way I’d have Jaime Munguia vs Dervychanko as the fight of the year. Beterbiev vs Yarde and Matias vs Ponce we’re both better than that fight too

 

[Bigblackted4]

It's really just Floyd stans. They view PBC as Floyd's company so they gotta stan it by association. When the truth is they are exactly the same as every other crooked promotional company. They keep their guys in check and only allow them to be in huge fights when they're backed into a corner.

They shyt the bed with every network who gave them a chance because they got greedy. Now they might have to crawl on their hands and knees to a streaming service after shytting on the streaming platform for years. shyt is wild how the tables have turned for them. But they did it to themselves.

Floyd and Leonard shyt on streaming sites, not anybody else from PBC. But if ur doing exactly what your saying Floyd Stans do.

 

[Bigblackted4]

Scripted content is cheaper. NBA has dropped the price of their league pass in half. They want the eyeballs.

I'm assuming the asking price by PBC wasn't worth it so they scrapped it.

Yeah that’s probably true they probably wanted more money or the same which Paramount probably wanted to cut it in half then realized it made no sense. Would have Been nice if they could have gotten folded into CBS Sports

 

[JamesJabdi]

Here's an easy statement.

Boxing is rotten and PBC is no different then the rest. The difference is PBC is the only one that gets their manager/owner referred to as "Allah", "The Great" etc instead of how we talk about Oscar, Bob or Eddie like the dikkheads they are.

No one on GBP, Top Rank or Matchroom says 'wrong side of the street ' except PBC fighters when asked about matchups or opposition. See Errol Spence circa 2020-2022. As if fighters at other promotions were inferior. And this board lapped it up. Ask anyone who's been on here.

For some reason when PBC gets brought up dudes get real defensive and emotional about the situation.

At no point should they have ran thru this many networks. I want them to succeed I'm a fight fan first.

Bruh this thread is about PBC so of course they gonna get brought up

PBC did a cross promotional huge event with DAZN in 2023, brought in Bud and Canelo to their fold as soon as they were available.....Bud signed with Bob Arum then sued him for lying about making the Spence fight happen . Bob Arum is also the reason why Pacquiao vs Mayweather took so long to go down. Bob Arum literally came out talking about he won't let Beterbiev vs Bivol go down on "Dead-zone" and only on ESPN......And nobody was talking about how he isn't giving Shakur(his fighter) big matches because dudes are too busy blaming Derrick James or Al Haymon with no peep about his promoter

Nobody is saying PBC is above criticism or they are perfect, but the energy they get is very diffrent from these other promoters who pulling some bullshyt and ain't even putting on massive events....shyt is disgrace.

 

[desjardins]

Just nice to finally see so many people on this board call out the bullshyt PBC was on for years. I been saying a lot of this stuff since I been here and got called all kinds of crazy and whatnot, even had to put some of the pbc stans on ignore cause arguing is a waste of time when the truth will come with time like it always does
NONE of these promoters are good or operating in the best interest of the sport, they operate in their best business interest (which should be common sense really)

It's funny how PBC stans always act like their fighters were getting treated like royalty. When the truth is PBC were no different than every other promotional company. PBC had a pimp-ho relationship with their fighters. They pay them ok money for weak matchups. Which may be good short term but long term all these guys fizzle out into obscurity. And that's exactly how all promoters like it.

I've always said the reason PBC isn't putting on good matchups despite having so much talent isn't because they don't know any better. It's because they don't want the talent out growing the business. Cause once that happens, the ho's have all the power and the pimps become irrelevant. It's why they feed tank bums and keep him right around 200k ppv buys. After the Ryan fight they shoulda been eager to put him in another huge fight. But nah...right back to some bullshyt. It's all calculated.

But all these old suits don't realize it's a new day. In today's game the ho's don't need the pimps. They can just make an onlyfans and promote themselves on Twitter and get rich. People can become overnight sensations in today's world. Just like bud did.

Those Spence-Crawford negotiations shoulda been enough for everyone to see how scandalous PBC truly is. And yet the Stan’s on here still defended them the whole way. Offering a fighter no guarantee is some of the lowest shyt I ever seen in the boxing business. But bud understood his worth. He knew they would have to fold eventually. And that’s exactly what happened. So I’m not mad to see these guys go down. Hope to see em all go the same way. The inmates are controlling the prison now. You need the stars like canelo and bud to come together and form a union. Just like the nba has the NBPA. Stop letting these old white fukks leech off their hard work. Understand that without their talent these guys have nothing. Bud and Spence forcing PBC to make that fight proved that loud and clear.

All this and the "good pay" doesn't even apply to like 90% of their fighters. It's really only the big names and who ever they positioned to be an "opponent" for a PPV who got bank. Guys like Kownacki were headlining in packed arenas and getting like $100K purses. Now he got CTE and no career prospects, like you said they chew guys up and spit them out just like every other promoter

 

[seemorecizzy]

this is fukked up
HBO needs to come back

 

[patscorpio]

ESPN will be the only cable channel airing boxing after this year...we are truly entering a new era of boxing

 

[patscorpio]

 

[aceboon]

Showtime bowing out of sports has nothing to do with PBC

Showtime literally shuttered their entire sports division and they think this is just about boxing, alot of these dudes are way too centered in a boxing bubble. this has been trending in this direction ever since they did the re-branding of Paramount.