Saturday Night Wars

Today is a very important day in the Boxing world.
The Cold War that was brewing between Golden Boy and Top Rank has officially begun.
Sadly, the first shot was shot by HBO sports president Ken Hershman when he announced this morning that HBO will no longer showcase any Golden Boy fighters.

"In order to achieve our goal of the best fighters in the most compelling match-ups, we've decided to focus our efforts and resources on those strategic relationships where we better share common goals and business philosophies," Hershman said in a statement. 

The announcement is a middle finger to all boxing fans the and it should of read like this :

 "Boxing fans you can now shut up about  fights  like Brandon Rios vs Lucas Matthysse, Canelo vs Chavez jr or Sergio Martinez, Mares vs Donaire. Instead we have decided that we are bigger than the sport of boxing,mand we know you will watch whatever we want to show you so Fuck Golden Boy and GO FUCK YOURSELF!"

This first shot  was similar to Franz Ferdinand being shot, okay I may be exaggerating but it is pretty big deal for boxing heads.
Fighters such as Canelo Alvarez, Abner Mares, Danny Garcia, Lucas Matthysse, and more will no longer showcase their talents on HBO.
Instead HBO will mainly focus on Top Rank fighters such as Julio Cesar Chavez jr, Brandon Rios, Manny Pacquiao, Nonito Donaire, and other warriors  like Juan Manuel Marquez and Sergio Martinez.

As @BoxingGeek pointed out earlier boxing will now be like the old WWF/WCW  Monday night wars back in the 90's and early 2000's.
WCW had their shitty show Monday Night Nitro  on TNT and WWF had RAW on USA. Their war robbed fans from such great fights such as Sting vs The Rock or Goldberg vs Stone Cold.
Luckily, Eric Bischoff was stupid enough to allow young fighters like Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, and  the Big Show to leave in favor of keeping old fighters like Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash in the main event.
His error allowed dream fights like Jericho vs The Rock, Eddie vs The Rock, The Big Show vs The Rock, and all young WCW talented wrestlers  vs The Rock.
Okay, HHH had some sick fights with Eddie and Benoit, so did numerous more WWF superstars.

A classic Eddie Guerrero vs The Rock on Rock

Eventually  Bischoff's lack of vision caused  WCW to fold because it never developed young fighters besides Goldberg.  The rest of the WCW fighters that were being held back, ahem Booker T, were brought over to WWF after the war ended.
The problem here is that Bob Arum is not stupid like Bischoff, and he will not make the error of allowing any of his fighters move to Golden Boy.
Boxing fans will be forced to choose between watching a fight on Showtime or HBO, kinda like we had to last September when Canelo fought Lopez on Showtime and Chavez jr fought Martinez on HBO.
The Golden Boy himself has a strategy in this fight,he's going to ride this out. His plan is to sink HBO boxing altogether.

I really don't care who wins the war as long as the casualties of lost fights end soonn, but it is sad that it has to gotten to the point where we must wait for a man to die in order  for this war to end.  But, death is a part  of war.

 This a result of powerful people allowing their emotions and ego to control them.  In this case, they consider themselves bigger than the sport of Boxing.