HBO ENTERS THE RING WITH THE MAN NOW KNOWN AS PRINCE

          HBO has acquired worldwide TV rights for featherweight-
     championship fights featuring boxer Prince Naseem Hamed. 
     Under the new agreement, the first fight will be the Hamed-
     Paul Ingle bout on April 10 from England (HBO).  The
     HOLLYWOOD REPORTER's Stephen Battaglio puts the deal at $5-
     8M per bout, making Hamed "the highest-paid fighter ever in
     his weight class."  Hamed is "guaranteed" a fee for U.S.
     broadcasts and will "split revenue" with HBO for int'l sales
     (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 2/17).  Hamed's next two fights will be
     held in the U.S., with the second one coming this summer,
     "probably" in N.Y. or Las Vegas (USA TODAY, 2/17).   
          PPV NUMBERS: In N.Y., Don Kaplan wrote that Top Rank's
     Bob Arum, who promoted the Oscar De La Hoya-Ike Quartey
     fight, "predicted" it "may have generated" about 730,000 PPV
     buys, or about $29M in gross, making it the "second-most
     watched" De La Hoya PPV fight ever (N.Y. POST, 2/16).