HBO Executives

HBO Executives
PPV is good or bad for boxing?

An executive at HBO, said that the limits of people who can see the fight live on PPV who bought instead of transmission by company-sponsored television that anyone can tune in.

I think it's good for the boxers, promoters, and networks. It's bad for the fans without embargo. Thus, boxing has become a marginal sport and major outlets so few media talk about it (even SportCenter ESPN). People Boxers do not know today as if they knew Dempsey, Louis, Robinson, LaMotta, Marciano, Leonard, Ali and even Tyson. The boxers are not household names already, because people common can not see the boxing and boxing is a sport that historically common people. When I was little you could see major championship fights on ABC Wide World of Sport. The sport was accessible. I teach and nobody except a few of us ever talk about boxing unless you're talking about Mayweather and Pacquiao because most of my classmates Work not know any fighter. The last time I remember talk of boxing at work that do not involve those guys was when the first season of The Contender left. Went in the television format in a reality show that made people know the game and interested in them and want their fights. The sad thing is that even boxing during the Olympic Games is only on cable channels. Cable and pay channels that boxing hard for people to find what most still are not connected have stopped looking.

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