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I'm a huge boxing fanatic, and I currently reside on the west coast.
Showtime boxing programming is delayed on the west coast, which allows us boxing fans to watch the HBO card live, and after the fights flip to Showtime to watch their card.
I understand cable programming is a business, and you are incompetition with Showtime, but it is unfair to the boxing fans when halfway through a HBO fight, you hear the spoiler blurted out which ruins your boxing experience.
The Rafael Marquez vs Israel Vasquez fight is a very important fight to boxing, and even though it is being aired on Showtime, I ask from HBO the courtesy to not spoil the result for those of us that intend on watching both boxing cards, becuase we love boxing.
Anyways this is basically cuz of what happened the night there were 2 cards of boxing, on Showtime they had Margarito vs Clottey and Cotto vs Quintana, and I'm watching the HBO card loving life, cuz after that I flip to showtime and can watch some top notch boxing, without knowing the result.
Anyways halfway through Larry Merchant's bitch ass blurts out that both Margarito and Cotto had won, and I almost threw my beer at the TV. There I WAS CHILLING WITH SOME COLD ONES, loving life and they have to ruin a night of boxing for me.
Maybe I'm naive or the only one this affected, but anybody else thats feeling me, let em know that what they did was wrong to the boxing fan.
update: i hear from a reliable source that HBO will most likely not spoil the showtime card because i guess they got ALOT of criticism for doing it last time..
Surely, if you don't want to hear the results of a fight, boxingscene's nsb forum is the last place you should be! But in the case of HBO, not revealing the winner of a previous bout on HBO broadcasted 5 hours earlier, I don't see the problem with that.
HBO had the same situation with the Byrd-Klitschko fight where it broadcasted it at 5 pm and then at 10 pm. I watched the 5 pm broadcast so I don't know if they spoiled it at 10 pm. Can anyone here tell me?
Bump. Can anyone tell me if HBO will 'spoil' the 10:00 pm Klitscko-Austin broadcast by revealing the results of the fight?
TV is an information medium. You can't ask a station to withhold information. If you don't want access to the information, you can easily avoid it.
Your request is almost as ridiculous as when posters here expect us not to discuss the fights until everyone has seen them. Think outside your little tiny bubble, please.
I don't think it is an unreasonable request. If folks on the West Coast who don't own a Tivo want to watch both shows, they must watch the HBO card first. HBO should extend this simple courtesy of not spoiling the Showtime results to their viewers. Or if they want to satisfy all of their viewers (those that want to know, and those that don't) they should give a warning before announcing the results.
But I do agree with you that folks coming on these forums asking for no spoilers is a ridiculous request. Unlike turning HBO on, visiting these forums is not a requirement to watch a fight.
Surely, if you don't want to hear the results of a fight, boxingscene's nsb forum is the last place you should be! But in the case of HBO, not revealing the winner of a previous bout on HBO broadcasted 5 hours earlier, I don't see the problem with that.
HBO had the same situation with the Byrd-Klitschko fight where it broadcasted it at 5 pm and then at 10 pm. I watched the 5 pm broadcast so I don't know if they spoiled it at 10 pm. Can anyone here tell me?
TV is an information medium. You can't ask a station to withhold information. If you don't want access to the information, you can easily avoid it.
Your request is almost as ridiculous as when posters here expect us not to discuss the fights until everyone has seen them. Think outside your little tiny bubble, please.
Now that we're on the subject... On March 13, HBO will broadcast the Klitschko-Austin fight at 5:00 pm eastern time and then re-broadcast it at 10:00 pm eastern time.
Question, for viewers watching it at 10:00 pm will HBO spoil it by announcing the results before the fight? I was hoping to watch it at that time but I don't want it spoiled.
yeah that sucks, same thing happens when you don't get a PPV fight and just wait until the next week to see it ...they announce it right of the beginning...mess the whole fight up for one. Happened to me with the Hopkins-Tarver fight.
Man I stays in the bay, on the west coast. It was lovely when we had 575 which was showtime east, but that got cancelled or removed from the server, so now Showtime fights don't get aired till 9pm, and I gotta watch the HBO card first which starts at 6:45. It's all bad right now cuz I'm contemplating havig to watch the HBO fight on mute, to ensure no spoilers. I hate that it might come to that, but it's real ugly right now.
Seriously when they announced that Cotto and Margarito won, I was not a healthy human being. I was gonna write HBO right there and then, but I was drunk off my ass chilling, I was pissed.
I actually ended up falling asleep during the Margarito-Clottey fight, caught the entire Quintana - Cotto fight, but either way, it ruined my entire day, and I was looking forward to that day for a month in anticipation.
Thats why Im glad I have a DVR. I watch Showtime first then HBO after. I remember last time I was paranoid that Showtime would ruin the Lacy result, but they didnt thankfully.
up and right on for the stars.
Anyways, I mean if you wanna know thats on you, you can check fightnews, boxrec, this site anywhere else.
But you don't want Merchant to ruin it for you.
yeah, I was gonna say that in this day and age, mostly everybody has Internet and if you are a boxing fan, you can log on to fightnews, or any of the numerous outlets like this site to find out who won the fights.
It's strait up hate on HBO's part, so thats why I have to do it. Again I have to hope that HBO won't spoil the result.
spoiling fights from a rival company with other networks or leave it be and care what the boxing fans think? ahaha.come on thats an easy1
That explains it all. They really dont care about boxing as a whole.
Excellent thread boogbx! I fully support this e-mail campaign and have sent HBO a note asking them to stop spoiling the Showtime fights.
I also asked them that if they have to do it, to at least give the audience a five second warning so that those of us that don't want to know the results, can turn the volume down.
i understand what youre saying..but keep in mind that some fans dont have both hbo and showtime, so hbo is doing a service by letting fans know outcome of fights that they werent able to see....
but most do have the internet (or even if they don't personally, they know someone who does).... if you don't have showtime or internet access (which 99% do), not to come off as a dick, but your kinda shit outta luck :D
In this day and age, it's more of a disservice to the sport of boxing than a service... in any case we shouldn't even be having to debate this as either the HBO or SHOWTIME card should be going on this weekend and the other the next.. not battling eachother.. that's the real disservice