Ross Greenburg OUT as president of HBO sports

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This means Thomas Hauser is out of a job. Whatelse does he have to write about?

 

Anybody have an idea who the replacement is likely to be and if it will be good for boxing?

 

As I said BEFORE the fight took place, whoever was responsible for paying so much for Bradley/Alexander SHOULD be out of a job. That was not an excusable mistake, imo.

 

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It depends...could mean HBO wants out of the big time boxing business...could become like Showtime unless Showtime wants to provide the deep pockets and get the bigger fights.

 

They tried to make new stars and it was a fight that needed to happen. Obviously in hindsight the fight sucked.

 

It wasn't hindsight. It was completely predictable.
The fight didn't need to happen at that price.
The fight really didn't need to happen at all.
Bradley is an excellent fighter, but he's not an excellent fighter to watch.
Alexander wasn't an excellent fighter to watch by any means.
Just because the US is starving for heroes doesn't mean that you should overpay to watch Alexander and Bradley fight.

 

It was number 1 vs number 2 at 140. Saying the fight didn't need to happen is ignorant.

 

Bradley has an argument for #1 coming into that fight, but Khan was my pick. And I think Maidana was probably #2 or #3. Alexander was #4, tops. Any mix of those guys would have been acceptable.

 

Any chance Jake gets the job?

 

he isnt even on the radar. my sources tell me they are strongly considering a dark horse candidate. fella by the name of Loveland

 

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He'd be good for HBO Latino.

 

Fuck that, I wanted Bradley/Alexander.

 

Steve you did have a much higher opinion of Alexander than was warranted though.

I mean you're not the only one, but I am honestly amazed that anyone thought Alexander would win that fight. It was basically a gimme for Bradley, who is a borderline elite fighter.

Alexander couldn't even beat Kotelnik, or Matthyse recently it seems.

 

Yeah, that's fair. What can ya do? Can't nail them all.

 

I don't even care if they were #1 and #2. Their popularity, fighting styles, past fights, and economics in general did not support overspending for a fight that had such a good chance on paper to be a rather dull fight. If you can't make that fight for the money it is really worth, then HBO should have just put it on the backburner and looked for a different matchup. There really wasn't any public outcry for Bradley/Alexander. None.

 

Exactly, the money and date they spent for that fight is ridiculous. Worst of all, Bradley temporarely put himself out of the 140 mix in hope of securing a fight with Pac. So, all the ''hype'' he got from the Alexander victory is pretty much already gone. This was clearly the work of someone who's really out of touch with the boxing biz. HBO got all the aces, they should just have told Bradley and Alexander to take the fight, with no subsequent match guarantee, or to fuck off to Showtime for a much smaller pay. neither of these guy's has star potention imo, yet HBO treated them like they were superstars

 

Spoken like the Sanctioning Body NUTHUGGER that U R....

CLARITY is Good for Boxing...YOU'RE Obviously More Into a MUDDIED Picture of Who's WHO, Division by Division...If 27 Guys Call themselves "The Jr. Welterweight Champion of the World" & Possess NO Inclination Whatsoever to Fight 1 Another, YOU'RE FINE w/that...

If NATHAN Else, Bradley-Alexander Got the 140lb Division CLOSER to Being Clarified than it Otherwise Would B...Though Nobody was Expecting a Gatti-Ward Slugfest, Bradley-Alexander WAS INTRIGUING & IMPORTANT, Prior to the Opening Bell...



REED

 

The part in bold is false. Much like most of the fucking stupid shit you post.

 

Do you know what a non sequitur is? Read my posts in this thread and then read your above post. Yours is a non sequitur. Try again.

 

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Even though you were right and I was wrong about Alexander, surely you agree that people wanted to see the fight before it happened?? ::

 

Yeah to some extent. Which like I said, you certainly weren't alone in that. It was one of the somewhat rare occasions where the majority were really wrong about a fighter.

Still, there's no denying the budget for that fight was fucking stupid. I'm a Bradley believer, but he is hardly a superstar :)

 

Still - at the time - myself and MANY other fans were happy they made it happen.

 

But who at 140 is? Maidaina probably has the most potential to be a superstar but he's inconsistent, and Khan probably has twice the people on this site who hate him then Alexander does. So seeing as how none of those guys were superstars, matching the #1 & #2 guys against each other made boxing sense even if it didn't make financial sense.

If anything, at least boxing's moved on now and no longer has to worry about that particular matchup.

 

Khan obviously has the most superstar potential at 140, by far.

 

Precisely...

& It's NOT a Difficult Concept to Grasp, Unless U're a LAME, TRANSPARENT, Contrarian BULLSHIT Artist that Somehow SUPPORTS the Inconsistency of HYPOCRITICAL Sanctioning Bodies....



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In england he's a draw. hasn't proven so in the states.

 

That's becoming less and less relevant as the days go by.