Bad economy won’t KO Shane Mosley/Antonio Margarito bout

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Earlier this week, boxing promoters Bob Arum and Richard Schaefer aired concerns that the slumping economy would affect HBO’s involvement in bidding on a welterweight title fight between Arum’s world champion Antonio Margarito and Schaefer’s ‘Sugar’ Shane Mosley of Pomona.

Kery Davis, HBO Sports’ senior vice president of programming, checked in Friday to assure that parent company Time Warner’s stock price ‘does not affect boxing programming’ and said the pay network has already extended an offer to place Margarito-Mosley on regular HBO sometime in late January or early February.

‘Now, we’ll see if we agree about the fair value of that fight,’ Davis said. ‘This is a perfect, very good fight for HBO.’

-- Lance Pugmire