Haymon Sports LLC (Premier Boxing Champions)

Is Haymon Sports publicly traded?
No. Haymon Sports LLC is privately held and controlled by Al Haymon. It has no stock listing or public shareholders.

Who owns Premier Boxing Champions?
PBC is owned and operated by Haymon Sports LLC, Al Haymon's private boxing company based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

When was PBC created?
Al Haymon launched Premier Boxing Champions in January 2015 as a broadcast series for his managed fighters.

Where does PBC broadcast?
PBC events air on Amazon Prime Video for pay-per-view and on DAZN under a multi-year deal that began in 2026.

Why is Haymon controversial?
Al Haymon both manages fighters and controls the series in which they fight, a dual role challenged in antitrust litigation settled in 2016. Critics argue it limits fighters' access to cross-promotional fights.

How big is Haymon Sports?
The company employs approximately 22 people at its Las Vegas headquarters but manages one of boxing's most valuable fighter rosters.

Al Haymon entered boxing management in the 2000s after a career in music and entertainment promotion. His breakthrough was his advisory relationship with Floyd Mayweather, through whom he participated in the sport's biggest pay-per-view economics and learned the value of controlling a fighter's promotional pathway.

Through the early 2010s, Haymon signed a widening stable of top fighters to management agreements, building a roster across weight classes that included champions and contenders in the sport's most commercially valuable divisions.

In January 2015, he launched Premier Boxing Champions, a televised boxing series designed to give his fighters a broadcast platform independent of the established promoters. Early PBC deals placed events across NBC, CBS, FOX, ESPN, and Showtime, an unusual multi-network approach.

PBC's Showtime partnership produced many of the division's biggest events through the late 2010s and early 2020s, including championship fights for Deontay Wilder, Errol Spence Jr., Gervonta Davis, and the Charlo brothers. When Showtime exited boxing in 2023, PBC moved its pay-per-view business to Amazon's Prime Video in 2024 and added a multi-year DAZN agreement in July 2026.

Through 2025 and 2026, the company continued staging major events including the Spence-Tszyu pay-per-view on Prime Video in July 2026, maintaining its position among boxing's leading promoters despite the industry's broadcast disruption.

Haymon Sports' central controversy is structural. Golden Boy Promotions filed a high-profile federal antitrust lawsuit against Al Haymon in 2015, alleging his control of fighter management and promotion violated the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act. The case settled in 2016 without a ruling against him, but the structural tension remains.

Fighter relations generate recurring friction. Some managed fighters have left publicly citing insufficient activity or limited access to the biggest available fights, and critics argue PBC's model can keep its fighters matched primarily against each other rather than the broader field.

The company's secrecy, including unpublished finances and Haymon's personal invisibility, makes it a perennial subject of industry criticism over transparency, though it has faced no fighter non-payment scandal of the kind that collapsed Kingpyn or Social Gloves.