Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that CBS Sports and Showtime have brokered a deal with Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions to be aired on Saturday afternoons. The sides have agreed to an 8 show deal starting April 4th featuring light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson.
In addition, shoulder programming will assist in promoting the fight cards.
Prior to the announcement on Tuesday, Haymon’s PBC initiated time buys with NBC and NBC Sports Network, Spike TV and now CBS Sports and Showtime.
Payout Perspective:
It’s beginning to look a lot like everyone is an Al Haymon guy. The boxing landscape for 2015 will have a lot of Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions across multiple networks. Certainly, this evolving strategy will be fascinating to watch as it is executed. I am thinking that this investment will come with some blue chip sponsors that would like to advertise along some, if not all of these platforms.
8 CBS events this year?
Haha. Al Haymon doesn’t seem to have a problem with flushing his investor’s money down the toilet.
Boxing’s going to explode over the next three years
More and more good news for boxing and more and more and even more shitty news for mma.
More like boxing is going to implode. Haha.
D you must be shittin your pants right now.
Boxing takeover.
Al Haymon has his boxing shows on NBC NBC Sports, CBS, CBS Sports, Showtime, Spike TV, ESPN 2, Telemundo, and BET.
ESPN is making a deal to replace Friday Night Fights with his program.
So go ahead and tell us D how the Haymon assault is bad for boxing.
This man is literally going to skyrocket the sport back to where it use to be as an American institution.
More like laughing at how much of an idiotic freak you are.
Boxing needs to pay to get on tv. Hahahaha!!
Dont forget HBO & Mayweather-Pacquiao in May.