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This was the Canelo-Kovalev fight.
I was in the arena for that fight and they were literally showing the MMA fight at the MGM Grand Garden arena before Canelo and Kovalev came out. I was disgusted.
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This was the Canelo-Kovalev fight.
I was in the arena for that fight and they were literally showing the MMA fight at the MGM Grand Garden arena before Canelo and Kovalev came out. I was disgusted.
They go out of their way to blame PBC for all of Showtime Sports shutting their doors, but didn’t mention Top Rank or any other promotion company being the reason when HBO Boxing (they still do other sports content) shut down.
In fact they blamed PBC for putting them out of business
You can’t make this up
Hearn on PBC Possibly Partnering with DAZN: I’d Be Over the Moon; Would Be a Good Acquisition
BY SEAN NAM
Published Wed Oct 18, 2023, 06:17 PM EDT
Eddie Hearn says he would welcome the addition of another content provider for DAZN—specifically a competitor he has taken shots at over the years.
The head of Matchroom Boxing indicated in a recent interview that he would “over the moon” if DAZN, the streaming platform Hearn’s Matchroom is partners with, managed to acquire the services of Premier Boxing Champions, the vast management company led by Al Haymon and which features top fighters such as Gervonta Davis, Deontay Wilder, Errol Spence Jr., David Benavidez, and Jermell Charlo.
It was announced Tuesday that PBC’s longtime broadcasting partner, Showtime, would no longer program the sport after the end of the year, which means PBC will need a new platform to showcase its fighters. There have been reports that PBC is in talks with other entities about a broadcasting deal.
Hearn did not say that PBC was in discussions with DAZN, but he made it clear he embraces the idea of DAZN and PBC linking up. Along with Matchroom, DAZN has separate content deals with Golden Boy Promotions and Misfits Boxing.
“The most dangerous thing in boxing is to have a business without a broadcaster,” Hearn told a group of reporters. “PBC have a good brand, so it’s not a guaranteed shoo-in that they can get the TV deal they want, but they have good fighters. But those fighters are probably looking at themselves and saying, ‘Do I need to make sure I’m with a promotional company that actually has a broadcasting deal?’
“For me, I’m always championing the fact that DAZN is the global home of boxing. If they can bring PBC to the platform as well, I’d be over the moon, I’ll be flying, and I think it would be a good acquisition.
“But I’m sure they’re talking to Amazon, and maybe more as well. That’s the big job for PBC now, to make sure they have a broadcaster because if they don’t get the broadcast deal they need, the business can’t survive. But they have a good brand. So, I’m sure they’ll be OK.”
Showtime's Exit From Boxing Marks The End of an Era
BY CLIFF ROLD
Published Thu Oct 19, 2023, 01:01 AM EDT
There was a time when boxing fans stood in line, buying a ticket to their local movie theater rich with the latest silent fare, to see just a bit of a major fight that had happened sometimes weeks before…
…a time when fans leaned their ear toward the family radio to hear Don Dunphy describe the live exploits of Joe Louis and Henry Armstrong…
…a time when Howard Cossell and Muhammad Ali enthralled the masses on Wide World of Sports…
…a time when USA Tuesday Night Fights gave a platform to the senior acts of Larry Holmes and George Foreman and provided the best of the formative years of Roy Jones Jr…
…a time when HBO delivered the biggest upset in the history of boxing, leaving those who missed Mike Tyson’s loss to Buster Douglas assuming those who didn’t were playing a prank…
…a time when Showtime was home to the greatest fight of the twenty-first century, and maybe the greatest lightweight title fight ever filmed, as Diego Corrales got up off the deck twice to stop Jose Luis Castillo.
Times change.
The time for Showtime, as reported this week at BoxingScene and numerous other media outlets, as one of boxing’s central broadcasters is up. When Jimmy Lennon Jr. steps to center ring for however many more years he has in him, it won’t be “Showtime” after the end of this year.
For at least two generations of boxing fans, this latest conclusion can’t help but be jarring. Boxing has always adapted to new media, transitioning from radio to broadcast television to cable. Streaming options have grown in recent years with many consumers opting for a set of subscriptions rather than any traditional television at all.
The difference from previous transitions is the sense of finality here. When Jose Luis Castillo upset Stevie Johnston in the last ABC afternoon boxing broadcast of its time, there was no fanfare or announced exit. Like NBC and CBS, they just stopped airing a sport fans had already largely grown accustomed to watching elsewhere. There was no fanfare or chance to process what was lost.
It was just gone.
The end of the premium cable era has been explicit and sudden.
HBO closed its relationship with the sport on the heels of a last hurrah on pay-per-view with Saul Alvarez-Gennadiy Golovkin II. Showtime will exit coming off one of its most critically acclaimed years of the last decade, combining several pay-per-view offerings and some solid network action as well.
It will just be gone too but this time it comes with a countdown clock.
Showtime’s contribution to the sport since arriving with the Marvin Hagler-John Mugabi card in 1986 has been massive. While HBO often had the deeper bench, Showtime was the home for a significant part of the 1990s to the two biggest draws in the sport, Tyson and Julio Cesar Chavez, and later the career ending run of Floyd Mayweather. The “Bite Fight” and the heist of Pernell Whitaker at the Alamodome? Showtime.
Evander Holyfield completing the unification of the cruiserweight title and capturing his first heavyweight title from Douglas; Nigel Benn-Gerald McClellan; the Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez epics; the first big spotlight for lighter weight fighters like Ricardo Lopez, Mark Johnson, Vic Darchinyan, and Nonito Donaire; the Super Six super middleweight tournament? Showtime.
ESPN and ESPN+ remain involved in boxing, so more traditional television names remain in the game. ESPN has had boxing in some form for most of its existence and likely always will. DAZN may expand its footprint. A new player like Amazon could always get in the game. The PBC will find, likely already has found, a new platform without Showtime. Any outfit with Alvarez, Tank Davis, and Terence Crawford under their umbrella is going to be just fine.
And fans will adapt. They already have. Those who pretended clicking an app was too difficult during some of the comical social media squabbles in recent years were already clicking them anyways and now won’t have to pretend anymore.
In boxing, what we have today is always colored by the question that never goes away: what’s next? Today’s big fight is always a prelude to the next big fight. Over the next few months, there will be plenty of laments about the change at hand, but it will last just long enough to figure out where to watch whatever big fights we will have to talk about in 2024.
Boxing will move on. Maybe it comes out better in the long run. Maybe not.
But whatever it will be, what’s next won’t be on Showtime anymore.
ABlackMan
Superstar
It is What it is or Shannon gotta do it
Plant vs Benavidez not happening in 2019 is why KG, Paul Pierce, and the rest of them need to find a new platform to talk basketball. And yup you right, wasn't no talk of Top Rank/Golden Boy/Main Events' failures when HBO pulled the plug on boxing, didn't see the same when NBC ended their series with Main Events, when ESPN gave Golden Boy the boot, it's only a pattern with one entity...They go out of their way to blame PBC for all of Showtime Sports shutting their doors, but didn’t mention Top Rank or any other promotion company being the reason when HBO Boxing (they still do other sports content) shut down.
In fact they blamed PBC for putting them out of business
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Bigblackted4
Superstar
CorrectHbo should have never let Floyd mayweather walk
i understand he was playing the villian role, but they went overboard with the disrespect. Before, during, and after his fights. They never fully recovered from that.
They did something similar with Tyson back in da day too. You can't shyt on your biggest money maker.
But their production was unmatched, Really felt like you were watching a movie during some fights
Bigblackted4
Superstar
Bigblackted4
Superstar
Yep does PBC have plenty of problems, yes but did they make showtime get out the sports business, nopeThey go out of their way to blame PBC for all of Showtime Sports shutting their doors, but didn’t mention Top Rank or any other promotion company being the reason when HBO Boxing (they still do other sports content) shut down.
In fact they blamed PBC for putting them out of business
desjardins
Superstar
So this means Boots is a free agent now
Not sure why he wasn't signed by Haymon but will be interesting if he can get a better deal once everything settles
Not sure why he wasn't signed by Haymon but will be interesting if he can get a better deal once everything settles
these stupid ass ngigas gonna ignore this and start back talking about Bud > Allah, fukk Al, Spence a hype job, Tank aint fighting nobody, and this all Floyd fault.
desjardins
Superstar
damn yall defensive as shyt that Showtime abandoned PBC
When budgets get tight who the first divisions that get cut, damn sure ain't the most profitable. it's the cost centers
in here pressed as shyt about it being Showtime Sports like them handful of documentaries, bellator and 2 podcasts moved the needle. One Canelo payday cost more than all the other non-boxing Showtime Sports programming combined
nikkas knew what it was when they made every mid ass fight a PPV, Showtime ain't got time for that shyt when shyt getting real with these streaming wars
damn yall defensive as shyt that Showtime abandoned PBC
When budgets get tight who the first divisions that get cut, damn sure ain't the most profitable. it's the cost centers
in here pressed as shyt about it being Showtime Sports like them handful of documentaries, bellator and 2 podcasts moved the needle. One Canelo payday cost more than all the other non-boxing Showtime Sports programming combined
nikkas knew what it was when they made every mid ass fight a PPV, Showtime ain't got time for that shyt when shyt getting real with these streaming wars
nikka prays to Bob Arum 5 times a day
you nikkas are fukking sick
desjardins
Superstar
what Bob Arum got to do with thisnikka prays to Bob Arum 5 times a day
you nikkas are fukking sick
you thought you had one talking about viewers as if they ain't have to put up buco bread for those cards. it's about profitability.
dexter and billions bring in way more subscribers on a cost basis than whatever fight they probably barely broke even on
