RIP Showtime Boxing?

[BAD INTENTIONS]

I wonder what Showtime boxing will do now.

DLH left them for HBO, even after HBO chose TR over GBP.
Haymon got his own thing going ... on FREE TV!

Beyond a few remaining bouts on certain Haymon/GBP fighters, I don't see what the future holds. Perhaps, Showtime aggressively promotes the European and Asian fighters. They better come up with something soon, because I'm about to CANCEL.

[jujigatame]

Hopefully they will just buy cards from whoever at this point as long as the matchups are compelling. I think Wilder/Stiverne is a GBP card and they're televising that.

I don't want to see them fall into the trap of buying garbage just to maintain a relationship, like they did with Heymon.

They have the best broadcast crew (IMO) so hopefully they get some big fights this year.

[jockpunk]

I was just thinking the same thing. I really don't know what they are going to show. They have nothing.

[ReggieDiggs]

Did GBP leave or did Saul just leave? Granted Saul is even a bigger part of GBP now. With GBP losing a lot of their name guys to Al GBP isn't gonna be able to do what they previously did anyway. GBP is officially in rebuild mode.

I'd assume they just will take more one off shows & if there is someone who can feed them quality fights on the reg that cat will be getting the hook up. Promoters wanna get on TV & Showtime needs cats to put on TV. Kinda will work itself out imho.

[Ricky_]

Showtime imo are going all out for Floyd vs Pacquiao, will make a ton of money, then perhaps put a cooler on boxing for a while.

HBO is much better anyway.

[Boxing Prospect]

The best things Showtime boxing have done recently... Was when they dared to be different. The Super 6 and the Bantanweight 4 man tournament were great, they should give Flyweight a go...

[marvelous marv]

Showtime will be fine. Haymon has a mind boggling 150 fighters under contract. There simply isn't enough airtime on one network for that. Plus there are lots of great fighters and matchups that fall outside of Haymon and HBO, entire divisions even.

[ReggieDiggs]

Stephen Espinoza claims he knew about Al Haymon's announcement with NBC and that he let the big three fights go to network.

It appears that Al's plan is to use NBC to build-up the fan base of key fighters and when they reach a certain level of popularity, Showtime would then likely televise PPV events:

http://www.BS.com/showtimes-es ... um=twitter

The plan kind of makes sense to me... and I have no reason to doubt Espinoza, considering his long-standing relationship with Al Haymon.

Sounds like Al honeydicked him to me.

[victor-romeo]

Looks like Showtime got playskied,,(totally played) wow almost mind boggling, total take down. I hope Showtime keeps it's chin up and comes up with better plan for showing fights now.