It?s just a few weeks till we officially hit 2012 but like everyone else involved in boxing, Golden Boy Promotions is setting its schedule for the upcoming year. In addition to shows on HBO (Erik Morales vs. Danny Garcia and James Kirkland vs. Carlos Molina on January 28th) and Showtime (Victor Ortiz vs. Andre Berto II on February 11th), they are also setting up their smaller, developmental cards.
?We?re going to have like 25 live shows with Univision- and I say Univision because they are the party we have the contract with because Univision owns Telefutura- and we?re going to have 10 ?Fight Night Clubs? [at Club Nokia at L.A. Live]. That?s the domestic schedule. We are going to be announcing another series but I?m not ready to disclose that here in the United States. And then we have at least 12, more likely 20 Televisa shows, which is the largest national free, over-the-air broadcast network in Mexico.?
As it relates to Golden Boy, the supposed death of this business is greatly exaggerated.
On that issue, Schaefer states, ?I just want to clarify the notion of a dying sport; it really mainly comes from a handful of promoters who feel because their business is dying that the sport is dying and I just don?t think that?s an appropriate reflection. If you ask Bob Arum, he has probably never been as active and as busy as now and the same for us. So that notion of a dying sport is negatively spread by a handful of promoters who have, in fact, no dates and no network deals and so on and therefore, they feel it?s a dying sport.
?But that?s inaccurate. Their business is dying- but not ours.?
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Golden Boy is taking some heat for taking Amir Khan into the hometown (Washington D.C.) of Lamont Peterson, who upset ?King? Khan this past weekend for his junior welterweight titles. Honestly, that sounds like some Monday Morning Quarterbacking and, in my opinion, GBP should be given credit for putting on an event that was highly successful and discovering a new market where it looks like boxing can thrive on a consistent basis.
