Like a master puppeteer, he pulls strings but seldom allows himself to be seen. I came out of Watts and Compton, so we could relate on that level. Thomas Hauser can be reached by email at [emailprotected] His most recent book A Hurting Sport was published by the University of Arkansas Press. Central to this action is Haymon's management of the "Premier Boxing Champions" (PBC). It was an experiment in coed education with young men and women living in the same dorm. Haymon has an aversion to being interviewed by the media and operates largely out of public view. As for the fights themselves, Haymon rarely watches from ringside, preferring to view the action from a private box or in an office inside the arena on a TV monitor. Thanks for signing up! His plan is based on the premise that theres a hidden audience for boxing that will watch fights on free television in numbers large enough to generate profitable ad sales. Al Haymon (born April 21, 1955) is an American businessman and boxing manager. In his last fight, he was stopped in three rounds by Sugar Ray Leonard, who was 9-0 at the time. The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. In 1992, he told USA Today that during the previous year hed promoted approximately 500 shows that had grossed $60 million. 2023 RING TV LIVE. He said that everyone in the room should think of themselves as part of a team. Ring, an attorney, functions as Haymons de facto chief of staff and interfaces with providers of venture capital, televison networks and other business allies. Guy is extremely private but he's also a badass, too. In our junior year, I started to hear the term an Alan Haymon production on the radio. Haymon had the means to shape the presentation of Premier Boxing Champions any way he wanted to in building a brand. As noted by Bill King, the most logical way for Haymon to sell ad time across so many networks is to have one group coordinate the selling. Less money is being spent on on-air talent than at the start. In 2004, the Boxing Writers Association of America honored Hauser with the Nat Fleischer Award for career excellence in boxing journalism. But Id be interested in coming back into boxing someday. But to date, Haymon has done nothing to improve the entertainment value of the sport. Fighters love Haymon because PBC did wonders for the sport as it increased the visibility and profile of boxing providing opportunities for fighters to showcase . Als word might be hard to get out of him. When one looks at Haymons history in boxing, he left HBO worse off than when he found it. [1] He also has an MBA from Harvard. And advertisers have limited budgets. Moreover, its likely that Haymons business plan warned investors that the venture was highly speculative and that they could lose all of their investment. And he had platform shoes of all types. Al Haymon is still boxing's most influential power broker. So I started calling record companies, calling buildings around town, and trying to introduce myself as a promoter so I could learn about the business and try to find out what was going to be my strategy to enter it. Sports Media Watch noted that this was the smallest audience for a prime-time boxing or MMA event on network television since 2008, a period that included 25 telecasts. The role of Ryan Caldwell, who left Waddell & Reed last year to join Haymon as chief operating officer of PBC and then departed from PBC soon after to form his own asset management company, is also subject to conjecture. It seemed like something a person like myself, who had absolutely no money at the time and a lot of ideas, could venture into. At one point, he was said to be considering walking away from the sanctioning bodies and crowning his own PBC champions. Al came in, a member of the production team recalls. There was a lot of polarization at Harvard in those days, black vs. white. He liked to party. If a fighter goes in tough and loses, PBC can bring him back any way it wants. If a transition to advertiser-supported networks paying large license fees was Als plan, then Al was delusional. Got Forrest and exclusive HBO deal and very quickly his client list grew. This is a small video of Al Haymon for those that don't know he runs boxing for behind scene kind of way. Leon Margules, who promotes fights for Haymon, acknowledges, Sometimes I see Al onsite when I promote one of his shows; sometimes I dont. He makes you feel like a million dollars until he doesnt.. As of Dec. 31, 2015, that investment was valued at $82,354,000 a drop of 84 percent in investment value. Twenty-seven cameras had been set up to capture the action from every possible angle under enhanced lighting. But he's learning that trying to control and restructure the sweet science is like nation building in Iraq. Subsequent cards featuring Danny Garcia, Peter Quillin, Adonis Stevenson, Andre Berto and others are lined up through April. Your destination for the best boxing news, videos and live streams! From Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis to Hank Aaron, Avants track record of success is mind-boggling. Shortly before a March 7, 2015, fight card in Las Vegas, Al Haymon did something that was totally out of character: He made a speech. Spikes first PBC telecast (Andre Berto vs Josesito Lopez on March 13, 2015) was also its highest-rated, drawing an average of 869,000 viewers. His parents were proud of him but they were proud of his brother and sister too. Sports seasons have expanded and are continuing to expand. This series is an attempt to shed some light on who he is and his journey through boxing. Also, lets not forget: The broadcast networks got out of boxing a long time ago. These entities include Haymon Boxing LLC, Haymon Sports LLC, Haymon Holdings LLC and Alan Haymon Development Inc. Schedule a fight that shapes up as an entertaining match-up and more people will watch. There has been a significant cash burn. But I do my job as best I can and expect that basic professional courtesy will be extended to me. But whats the fallback plan? Moreover, every successful sport sells tickets for its live events and makes good money from those sales. ', Given the industries that Haymon is in (television and boxing), theres remarkably little transparency in the way he conducts business. Questions, comments, hate mail? Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. storybook album, he approached Avant to promote a tour for his now historic BAD album. Thanks for signing up! For months on end, the boxing community had buzzed with rumors: Haymon was amassing a war chest totaling hundreds of millions of dollars with the help of a venture capital fund in an effort to take over boxing Haymon was signing hundreds of fighters to managerial and advisory contracts Haymon was planning some sort of TV series time-buys on multiple networks for an entity called Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) were confirmed. King based some of his research on quarterly filings with the Securities Exchange Commission made by an entity called the Ivy Asset Strategy Fund, which Caldwell co-managed for Waddell & Reed. His tone of voice changes when hes angry but thats the only sign Ive seen.. Many advertisers dont want their product associated with the less savory aspects of the sport. Al Haymon did his schooling from John Adams High School in 1973 and graduated from there. Sometimes the entrepreneur is right in that thinking, is wildly successful under a new set of rules and makes hundreds of millions of dollars. If the ratings are there perhaps one of the big networks will go all in after this probationary phase and invest in an exclusive contract with PBC, much like the UFCs mega-deal with Fox. That said, a conflict of interest seems to be built into Haymons methodology. [2], Around 2000, Haymon ventured into boxing when he managed Vernon Forrest. The savant of entertainment and politics groomed many of Black Americas heroes. Dr. Enrico Melson graduated from the University of California at Irvine with a medical degree in 1982. Green glitter platform shoes, silver platform shoes, boxes and boxes of platform shoes. He even spoke out when Forrest was murdered. People say, Al has spent three hundred million dollars. He visits her often and treats her well. For example, very few members of the boxing media were invited to the January 14, 2015, press conference at NBC that launched Premier Boxing Champions. Well, Al Haymon's age is 67 years old as of today's date 11th January 2023 having been born on 21 April 1955. Its easy for TV networks to sell advertising for NFL programming. I had a cousin who was also attending Harvard as a freshman and my cousin and I thought maybe we could get Alan to switch. My original plan was to go after acts that werent hotly pursued by much bigger competitors. Confidence? He challenged the status quo and the sense of entitlement that too many promoters, sanctioning body officials, network executives and others have. Al Haymons college graduation yearbook photo. At the same time, Haymon stepped out of the PBC bubble again to match Charles Martin against Anthony Joshua in London on April 9. Filings with the Securities Exchange Commission suggest that a total of $528,481,000 was made available to Haymon. And let me tell you, theres no buzz now for PBC. But he also has a fiduciary duty to his investors to cap expenses and maximize their return on investment. All I got from him was a hello and a handshake to acknowledge that he knew who I was. Al Haymon. Dr. Melsons memories of Al Haymon follow: Let me start with how I met Alan. And believe me, when youre coming from the underclass and an oppressed minority, survival in that cultural environment is an issue, not just in the classroom but emotionally too. You cant spend that kind of money, not even in boxing.. Haymon is not a licensed broker, hes a manager, which allows him certain privileges and legal workarounds with his fighters that promoters do not have (look up The Ali Act if you are unaware of the differences between a promoter and a manager). Advertising for boxing is a hard sell. At the beginning, it was good, Cohen says. The cornerstone of his empire was a relationship that evolved with HBO and, in particular, with Kery Davis (the network's point person on . Meanwhile, the executives and NBC, CBS, etc. Bill King of Sports Business Journal began the process of publicly fleshing out the financial muscle behind Haymons plans with an analysis of Premier Boxing Champions that was posted on April 20, 2015. That comes sometimes with the pressures of fame and success on the level that Alan has had. After all, this isnt business as usual but it is business. These inaugural cards are wisely scheduled around the NCAA March Madness tournament and before the start of the NBA playoffs. Right now, many prospective viewers dont know when or where to find PBC fights. Thanks for signing up! We could hold onto our blackness or we could swing over to the establishment side. In some respects, he has been remarkably tone-deaf. To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. He was a brother who stood in both worlds and never sold out. I dont think Haymons investors will get their money back. But except for a core group Sylvia Browne, Brad Owens, Sam Watson and Mike Ring they arent. Forget about making a profit. Three iconic sports personalities formed the core of the NBC announcing team. But he was never arrogant or unkind. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. Dozens of people whom Bishop called either declined comment or failed to return his telephone calls. All rights reserved. Famously known by the Family name Al Haymon, is a great Athlete. [4], Fighters who are currently or were previously represented by Haymon include:[1][5], American businessman and boxing manager (born 1955), Boxing Writers of America Manager of the Year Award, "Behind the Scenes Haymon is Shaking Up the Fight Game", "Al Buck Award: 2005 Manager of the Year: Al Haymon", "Eddie Hearn Continues to Take Swipes at Al Haymon And The Inactivity of His Fighters", "Bob Arum: Top Rank held talks with Al Haymon fighters about signing deals", "Lightweight Herring strikes deal with Top Rank", "Lopez, Lara sign with Haymon - Dan Rafael Blog - ESPN", "Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s Advisor Al Haymon Signs 6 U.S. Olympians", "Sergey Derevyanchenko Inks Pact With Al Haymon Jean-Pierre Augustin", "British heavyweight contender Joe Joyce teams up with Al Haymon, US debut imminent", "Joe Joyce signs co-promotional deal with Queensberry Promotions and Ringstar Sport s", "Luis Ortiz Inks Pact With Al Haymon Boxing News", "Al Haymon and Manny Pacquiao Link Up Shows Haymon Still As Influential As Ever", "Caleb "Sweet Hands" Plant A Champion in the Making! Assets can be written down for tax purposes. And we have a reputation for splitting things down the middle rather than taking sides. It was always a challenge to find parking in Cambridge. I called him. Because in some regards youre going to be the irrational player for a while. A refrain often heard from others was, Id like to talk with you but I dont want to get in trouble with Al. Haymon, as is his custom, declined to be interviewed. Haymons aversion to publicity feeds into a collateral issue. Because, if you believe Bob Arum and Oscar De La Hoya, that is what he is trying to do. Early victories are no guarantee of long term progress. In 2004, the Boxing Writers Association of America honored Hauser with the Nat Fleischer Award for Career Excellence in Boxing Journalism. His height is 1.75 m tall, and his weight is 63 kg. Federal election records list Haymon as having contributed money to several Democratic candidates. Referenced in the Clarance Avant documentary (Black Godfather) in regards to Avant referring Michael Jackson to Haymon for his Bad tour. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. In September 1973, he arrived at Harvard, where he was assigned to room with another freshman who had a background similar to his own: Alan Haymon. And a final thought to contemplate until Part II of What we know about Al Haymon is posted tomorrow. Your destination for the best boxing news, videos and live streams! Your destination for the best boxing news, videos and live streams! Since then, he has served in a variety of positions, drawing in particular on his expertise in holistic medicine and other indigenous healing practices. And I dont get that from Al., Greg Bishop, now with Sports Illustrated, was on staff at The New York Times when he began researching a story on Haymon in 2011. In furtherance of this idea, he pursued venture capital from myriad sources and got it from an asset management company called Waddell & Reed. Promoters who have worked with Haymon and in some instances still work with him voice similar sentiments: Also, theres an interesting contradiction between Haymons low-profile persona and another aspect of his personality. PBC would dominate boxing for years. Career He branched out to other entertainment areas, such as when he worked with Eddie Murphy. He thinks the reclusive deal maker lost money in the previous Spence PPV, when Spence scrapped with Mikey Garcia. You cant just call Al. Enigmatic is the word that comes to mind for me. Haymon's Premier Boxing Champions enterprise has scooped up so many fighters (estimates vary between 140 . Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. He didnt talk for long, only a couple of minutes. When Premier Boxing Champions was launched, boxing fans gave Haymon the benefit of the doubt and wanted to believe in him. FOLLOW US! The powerhouse boxing manager has recently announced contracts with NBC, CBS, Spike TV and ESPN with rumors of upcoming deals with BET, Telemundo and possibly more networks on the way. Youre turning the model completely upside down. . Finally, I was told, Come to the first PBC event (in Las Vegas on March 7, 2015) and someone will talk with you. My request was to talk with Al but they said that was unlikely. Haymons unavailablilty is an instrument of control. Together they invested $432 million. Alan was one of those who refused to assimilate. If lightning strikes, fine. Alan and I had that in common to start with. Haymon earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard before pursuing a career in television and music. And wouldnt Thurman-Porter be even more exciting if viewers knew that the winner was slated to fight the winner of an equally high-profile match-up? But its not just the media that finds Haymon elusive. He wants to dominate. There were 15 or 20 people there. He often seems scornful of and even hostile toward the media, particularly the boxing media. It lacks an identity in the public mind. This situation could go from bad to worse as the PBC essentially turns into the Al Haymon boxing league going up against the HBO boxing league, with the top fighters in each league never facing one another. One NBC executive complained, He wont give us simple information that two people transacting business together would normally exchange with one another.. Those networks arent interested in building boxing. By all accounts, Haymon is devoted to his mother, who still lives in Cleveland. Al said, Let me look at that and get back to you. And that was it. Decades ago, he told Ebony Men, Im not trying to be a star. If Premier Boxing Champions fails to live up to expectations, Haymon will still have the wherewithal to be a force in boxing. That was at the W hotel in Times Square before Austin fought Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden (on December 1, 2012). The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. We only met in person once. That hasnt happened, perhaps because Schaefers involvement with PBC at the present time is considered too risky in light of the ongoing lawsuits against Haymon. He gets what he wants and does things the way he wants. There may come a time when the money gets tight. Interestingly, during the documentary, Avant shares how he mentored boxing impresario Alan Al Haymon to be his uber protege. Rafael says that Haymons contract with NBC and his contract with ESPN called for him to pay each network in advance on a yearly basis ($20 million per year for NBC and $8 million per year for ESPN) but, when Haymon closed a deal with Fox Sports 1 in mid-2015, it called for monthly payments and he declined to give them a letter of credit for the full amount. Tournaments and playoffs work in every other sport. The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user. So why is this happening? Al values his privacy He doesnt even like it when people tell nice stories about him. Al is skating on thin ice and some of us wouldnt mind if it breaks., Its an uphill battle for Al now, Schaefer acknowledges. [1] Over the next decade, he gained considerable influence in boxing, mainly due to his connection to Floyd Mayweather Jr.[1] In 2005 and 2013, he won the Al Buck Award (Manager of the Year) from the Boxing Writers Association of America.[3]. https://youtu.be/kKS2vqoRIY4---------------------------------------------LIKE! Its X-plus or we dont do it. You have to be capitalized for three to five years to do this, to weather the storm. More importantly, Haymon predicted that, after the time buys end, television networks will pay significant license fees for PBC fights. For bouts like Klitschko-Wilder, Stevenson-Ward, Quillin-Golovkin and others to take place, the promoters and networks will have to be willing to compromise and work together.For now, lets sit back and enjoy the show. Its not uncommon for an innovative entrepreneur to believe that the prevailing logic in an industry is wrong and should be challenged. But Al can always say he never got it. Just my thoughts on Haymon & PBC He was a good dancer. If PBC fails, Haymon isnt chasing them out of something that they were in before he came on the scene. The indications are that Haymon still has tens of millions of dollars in his war chest. I know Al doesnt like me, Rafael says. Academy-Award winner Hans Zimmer, whod written the signature music for The Contender (as well as screen scores for The Lion King, Gladiator and The Dark Night Trilogy) had composed special ring-walk music for the fighters. Everything else, all the bells and whistles, is secondary to that. Read Part I, Part II, and Part III. And thats fine. While the Netflix world is devouring the intense real story of the male victims of the. A second Waddell fund, WRA Asset Strategy, listed an investment of $42.2 million. I thought that was pretty cool. More than a few times and Im paraphrasing now Al has said to me, Look, thats the way it has to be. What we know about Al Haymon: Part IV. Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. Like the rest of us, he was wrestling with the issue of who he was and what kind of person he wanted to be. And when it comes to boxing, maybe Al doesnt know as much as he thinks he knows.. Four months later, Muhammad Ali triumped over Earnie Shavers in a bout seen by almost 100 million people. Haymons business plan for Premier Boxing Champions is as tightly guarded as a nations nuclear codes. Two upcoming PBC telecasts offer a contrast in programming philosophy. Its not rocket science. What short, middle and long-term impact will this series have on the boxing landscape? Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. But you learn from your mistakes. Come on, four hundred million dollars? Thats a good number but it soon tapered off. I went to the first PBC press conference in New York (on Jan. 14, 2015) which was for a show on NBC. But he knows how to close a deal. CBS has yet to match the 1.6 million average viewership that Adonis Stevenson vs. Sakio Bika engendered in its initial PBC telecast on April 4, 2015. He positioned himself as a reformer who was going to make the sweet science more popular and more equitable. Watson interacts with Haymons fighters on a regular basis and does what he can as Als representative to keep them happy. That might change with Errol Spence Jr. I tried to introduce myself to him twice, Bishop recalls. - June 11, 2019 The Black Godfather's boxing ties with Al Haymon are unpacked in a new Netflix doc. Al Haymon was challenging the established order of the sport. It was very successful, and it was hers.. That exemplifies the failure of the PBC brand to date. Haymon, between his work with Floyd Mayweather and Premier Boxing Champions, Haymon was groomed for greatness. 2023 RING TV LIVE. As previously noted, Haymon has approximately 200 fighters under contract. Thats because the Showtime brand is expected to attract more advertisers and viewers than the PBC brand. In other words, the initial $528 million number could have included non-monetary assets such as fighter contracts and the value of the PBC brand. The defendant, Al Haymon, is the owner of Haymon Sports LLC (Haymon), a boxing management firm that represents over two hundred boxers including Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Amir Khan, and current welterweight champions Danny Garcia and Keith Thurman. And my mother couldnt make it to my graduation because she was in an intensive care unit with a gunshot wound. On May 20, 2015, NBC Sports Group chairman Mark Lazarus, CBS Sports . On those rare occasions when someone gets close enough to ask for a selfie, Haymons standard response is, Its nice to meet you but I dont take pictures., Im not trying to be a star. So thats what I remember about Alan. In most instances, hes not even in the picture. Alan wasnt a political activist but he was clear in his support. In the Spring of 2015, Golden Boy Promotions filed a lawsuit against Al Haymon. The value of a (non-monetary) asset like good will can change over time. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Each time, he said, Hey, nice to see you and turned away to talk to someone else.. "There were 15 or 20 people there. The schedule is too cluttered now. Even when I was the promoter of record, Greg Cohen says, there were times when I felt like a spectator., Al is a control freak, says another promoter who has worked extensively with Haymon. At present, Tyson Fury is widely seen as having the most credible claim to the heavyweight throne by virtue of his Nov. 28, 2015, victory over Wladimir Klitschko. He stays in the shadows, most of us, even the hardest core boxing fans, most likely wouldn't recognize his voice if we heard it. His managerial fee is also believed to be part of the revenue stream for investors. In 2002, he established a non-profit corporation called The Black College Scholarship Fund. The NBC telecast averaged 3.37 million viewers, including 554,000 in the 18-to-34-year-old age group and 1.38 million in the 18-to-49 demographic. That said, the $82 million valuation as of Dec. 31 is presumed to be less than what Haymon has spent so far. He might not get that far. Haymons mother was an accountant. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. You keep doing what worked and cut back on what didnt work. A lot of the black students wanted to join the elite. The New York City native honed his skills at various news outlets including but not limited to: TIME Magazine, Money Magazine, CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports, and more. He took a year off from school and, with the help of his mother, continued to build his concert-promotion business. Except it hasnt happened. We know it cant go on like this, says a rival promoter. He had a sense of destiny about what he wanted to do and he did it. And I found out later that he had a blue Cadillac de Ville with an off-white top that hed drive around looking for a parking space. However, The Black Godfather provides a glimpse into how a future impresario would gain more insight into the bigger entertainment world. My father didnt get to Harvard until I graduated four years later. He isnt a lets-go-out-for-dinner-together kind of guy, says someone who has done business with him for years. 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