Showtime only planning two more cards for this year?

Seems obvious there's no huge fight coming these last two months of the year. Otherwise, they would have been announced weeks ago. Most of the blue chip fighters are now averaging two fights a year.

Showtime just announced a card for nov 1st, the fortuna and fonfara card..

Showtime does not demand the same quality matchup and opponents as HBO. Most of their fights are to showcase a star against a picked but not to dangerous opponent. It is the main reason some fighters have left HBO and the money they pay.. Hopefully they learn fans are interested in competitive matchups more than they are in just name stars padding their record. Canelo v Clottey says hi

Yeah, I miss those days... I loved the mid 00s showtime when they only bought fights... So many great memories Castillo-corrales Lacy-calzaghe Hatton-tsyzu Casamoyer-corrales Casamoyer-Castillo K9-Powell Jermaine Taylor Joel Julio Chad Dawson Americo santos Tim Bradley All fighting it out on shobox... Back when Showtime used to have 1 championship fight card the first week of the month then scatter Shobox throughout the rest. It's harder to always have good cards when you air so many more some are just going to be duds but that seems to be Hershmans preference more selective as opposed to airing anything.

Three months left for this year and nothing has been announced yet. Can't wait to see Espinoza gleefully tweeting, "Broner vs TBA on December," "Matthysse vs TBA on the same card..." LOL. What a joke.

Hbo crushed showtime down the stretch of the year, absolutely crushed showtime!

i get free showtime and hbo so i don't care either way. but hopefully they add a couple cards to showtime before the years up. ima watch every fight one way or the other nothing will ever stop me from seeing one i want to see

Yeah it was basically guys would start on ESPN, work there way up to Showtome and graduate to HBO. Yeah, I miss those days... I loved the mid 00s showtime when they only bought fights... So many great memories Castillo-corrales Lacy-calzaghe Hatton-tsyzu Casamoyer-corrales Casamoyer-Castillo K9-Powell Jermaine Taylor Joel Julio Chad Dawson Americo santos Tim Bradley All fighting it out on shobox...

Yeah Unfortunately they blew their load on a bunch of crappy cards. Of course they'll be back next year with a fresh budget, I just hope they focus on quality fights and stop green lighting every proposal that lands on their desk. They need to be more selective. Or better yet fire Espinoza and hire a boxing guy that doesnt have ties to Golden Boy, Top Rank, etc. I wish they would go back to 03-07 era when they groomed guys like hatton, lacy, calzaghe, bought fights instead of fighters, and had shobox with really even matchups,, Anytime that showtime tries to be like hbo, they fail... Like in the mid to late 90s when they put on Tyson fights, Chavez, Tito and most were mismatches, and now your seeing the same thing happen..

HBO has at least six that I know of: GGG-Rubio/Donaire-Walters Hopkins vs Kovalev Crawford vs Beltran Canelo vs Clottey Bradley vs Chaves Pacquiao vs Chris (ppv) Some of those are in October,, I was just talking about nov/dec,,, But yes it seems that showtime has blown it's budget for the year, but it hardly think that it's totally over for showtime boxing,, next year they will continue to put on fights

Quality over quantity Hbo Imo had better cards this year And last year showtime had the better cards,my year by year this stuff changes but it's no indication that showtime boxing is over... And mid-November thru January is usually the slowest time of the year for matchmaking... Yeah they have probably wasted their budget this year, and are short on cash, but next year is a new year with new budget and showtime will still be airing fights.. I do think it sucks that they cancelled shobox, that was my favorite boxing show if the past decade...

Espinoza is a true bum.

I have both HBO and Showtime so I don't really care, but HBO doesn't put out fights that often either.......on a side note it looks like Haymon is screwing Showtime and Espinoza will be fired soon

I think this is getting blown out of proportion.. There is only 3 months left and they have a card already in November, plus probably one more in November (Thurman) and then one final one in December (khan) How many cards does hbo have in November and December? Maybe 4 tops.. Quality over quantity Hbo Imo had better cards this year

I think this is getting blown out of proportion.. There is only 3 months left and they have a card already in November, plus probably one more in November (Thurman) and then one final one in December (khan) How many cards does hbo have in November and December? Maybe 4 tops..

So Thurman is fighting on November 15, they only have few weeks of training. Novermber is next month, bro. Why does he need to train hes fighting a can anyways.

They've already got a card announced for November 1st so I'm guessing that's not one of the two he's talking about. Thurman said he's fighting on November 15th, so that's one of the cards, I'm guessing the other card will be in December with Khan headlining. So Thurman is fighting on November 15, they only have few weeks of training. Novermber is next month, bro.

down goes showtime!!!!

That's pretty pathetic overall though, four cards in three months How is that pathetic? He's going to put together two more fight cards on top of the ones that are already on the books. One more in November and one in December, Then Christmas and the start of the new year. Some of you people are pathetic.

I'm on the phone right now cancelling. Good riddance.