Comments Thread For: Paramount Global To Shut Down Showtime Sports; Network Will No Longer Broadcast Boxing

[OnePunch]

Saudi Arabia will be taking over big time boxing ...

no they wont. They will do a few more big events where they burn a ton of money. And then they will lose interest and move on.

[RuleOfTheSpear]

pbc fighters be fightin either on free tv or phone app lol

[SceneBoxer]

Saudi Arabia will be taking over big time boxing ...

[Southermost]

Sure I will miss Abner Mares the best of the group just kidding.

[Sid-Knee]

You know what I forgot all about that. Sure does suck getting old!

Of course you forgot. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.

[Sid-Knee]

WTF? The N-word why the hell would I say that? Clown B!cth I don't give two ****s about race

Oldskool is the biggest gaslighting racist on the site. Proper nutter. Just laugh at how much his mind is occupied with slandering certain people whilst defending the people who are the problem in this sport.

[Bullrider]

Paramount execs are probably scratching their heads how such a sport as a business could flourish with only 1 fighter or 2 taking the large chunk of the budget with very little profit for the investors. And the paying public is essentially only buying one fight, the main event. It does sound crazy.

It IS crazy. They could have 3 co-features and could still make everyone satisfied with such enormous amount of money, especially the buying public.

[Sid-Knee]

The funny thing is these clowns are so jubilant that Showtime is shutting down they think the PBC is shutting down too. You fools PBC is doing fine. They just put three 100+ million dollar cards on their resume this year so they could show Amazon that this is what they can do if they want to do business. It's going to be so funny when they change the name to PRIME BOXING CHAMPIONS and you guys are going to be renewing your yearly 250$ Dazn subs with all their PPVs. Can't wait until Ryan and Shakur move over with Al next year. You guys are going to shyte on yourselves!!

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.

Love the irony about fans being jubilant about the closure of a platform. Love it. Duh.

[The D3vil]

Seriously who was Wilder fighting before Hearn arrived? Stiverene and thats a stretch?? Could have fought Klitschko etc Finkel was his manager. Could have fought Martin champ with the same stable? Nothing ..

Dude, when was Wilder supposed to fight Klit?

He became champ in Jan 2015 & Klit lost to Fury in Nov. 2015.

Y'all act like they were champs in the same division for 3 or 4 years or something.

Their overlap is fxcking 8 months.

And if he fought Martin, y'all would just clown him for knocking out another bum like Breazeale or Molina

Martin's nowhere near as good as Ortiz was and Wilder sparked him twice.

Surprised no one has said this yet but it’s true. No way on Gods green earth at less than another 700k people MINIMUM streamed Spence v Crawford. The piracy is getting easier to do, and the video quality is improving while freeze ups are reducing.

boxing has a LOT of problems, but this dip in PPV revenue is a big one. Of course boxers are also very much overpaid for the revenue they bring in. The guys at the top of the food chain anyway.

I love the sport. If it goes to Amazon I’ll watch. DAZN probably would be a better option though since there’s already a couple of promoters there. That should help making fights a bit easier.

UFC doesn't have piracy?

Of course it does.

I go on Twitter & there's tons of links to illegal streams on there, but they're thriving.

Boxing's problem is corrupt promoters, judges, & sanctioning bodies, simple as plain.

No way Jermall Charlo should've been able to hold the WBC belt hostage for 2 whole years, when they've stripped other fighters for less.

Too many belts, too many champions, too many robberies & ridiculous scorecards, too much ducking & trying to gouge the public for bullshxt fights .

If the best fought the best regularly in men's boxing like they do in women's boxing, the scorecards were fair 80% of the time, and these sanctioning bodies stopped it with the belt nonsense, you'd see boxing making money hand over fist.

[hitmanjosh]

I’m about to fire HBO & Showtime then, no need for service! Bye