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By Jake Donovan - It drives me nuts, and I know I'm not alone.
One week, the boxing action is thin – no major Saturday night card, with your weekend basically ending on Friday. The following week, you're forced to decide what to watch live and what to catch later.
This week is one where Tivo's get a workout.
Following a week where boxing all but ended on Friday the 13th, the sport once again gets healthy. Starting with tonight's telecast of ESPN2's Wednesday Night Fights, stateside fans get to enjoy – or at least choose from – a whopping seven televised cards.
The Deuce gives its weekly double dip, going Wednesday and Friday, with the latter card being one of four scheduled shows for Friday. Telefutura continues with its Solo Boxeo series; Telemundo returns for the second straight week with their late night special, while ShoBox returns for the first time in well over a month, live from the Cayman Islands.
Then of course on Saturday night, it's back to the network wars, with HBO and Showtime offering cards staggered an hour apart. The timing is far enough to where you can catch the co-feature on Showtime and main event on HBO, but will most likely be forced to choose or give your remote a workout during Showtime's headliner and HBO's televised opener.
No need to fully recap; all that would do is repeat what's already been said by my trusty colleague Cliff Rold in his weekly "Television Picks of the Week" column (click HERE for this week's edition). Instead, I have to ask: why so many shows one week and so few in others? [details]
One week, the boxing action is thin – no major Saturday night card, with your weekend basically ending on Friday. The following week, you're forced to decide what to watch live and what to catch later.
This week is one where Tivo's get a workout.
Following a week where boxing all but ended on Friday the 13th, the sport once again gets healthy. Starting with tonight's telecast of ESPN2's Wednesday Night Fights, stateside fans get to enjoy – or at least choose from – a whopping seven televised cards.
The Deuce gives its weekly double dip, going Wednesday and Friday, with the latter card being one of four scheduled shows for Friday. Telefutura continues with its Solo Boxeo series; Telemundo returns for the second straight week with their late night special, while ShoBox returns for the first time in well over a month, live from the Cayman Islands.
Then of course on Saturday night, it's back to the network wars, with HBO and Showtime offering cards staggered an hour apart. The timing is far enough to where you can catch the co-feature on Showtime and main event on HBO, but will most likely be forced to choose or give your remote a workout during Showtime's headliner and HBO's televised opener.
No need to fully recap; all that would do is repeat what's already been said by my trusty colleague Cliff Rold in his weekly "Television Picks of the Week" column (click HERE for this week's edition). Instead, I have to ask: why so many shows one week and so few in others? [details]
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