What boxers would you like to see on HBO, Showtime and ESPN?

[Shattered Jaw]

I would like to see more of Bute, Pirog, Adamek and the Klitschkos on HBO.

And they should give an exciting young UK fighter Nathan Cleverly a chance as well - he shouldn't need to fight at the top level for 10 years before they have him on HBO, like Calzaghe did.

Alexander Frenkel, Marco Huck and Denis Lebedev are exciting cruiserweights, too bad we don't see them on TV on the North American continent.

Bute, Pirog, Adamek and the Klitschkos will have more opportunities on HBO for sure. They are all exciting (with the exception of Wlad) world class fighters and champions and HBO will jump at all of them so long as the opponent is up to scratch (e.g., not Brinkley, Briggs etc).

I agree that guys like Berto, Dawson etc seem to be given a pass on HBO to fight sub par opposition but I guess they bring in more viewing figures or something and there must be a financial reason.

Calzaghe fought bums for 10 years and as soon as he stepped up HBO showed him 3 times without qualm. I also agree Cleverly would go down a treat on HBO although I think he is at least a year away from a showdown with Pascal, Dawson or Cloud.

Alexander Frenkel is unproven at the moment and to be honest doesn't exactly have any star quality. Marco Huck and his horrendous technique is just downright abysmal to watch - he should be consigned to ESPN 2 for all I care.

But seriously though, I don't really see why HBO would put any of these Eastern Europeans on... noone in America cares. They want to see Americans and Europeans who can actually fight without looking like an epileptic at a strobe light convention (e.g., Huck) or stinking out an entire arena (e.g., Wlad numerous times).

Anyway - summary: The good ones with some star quality seem to get on HBO/Showtime etc and that's all fine by me (Abraham, Adamek, Froch, Khan etc...).

[PEBBLES!]

Pirog
Bute
Caballero
Wladimir
Adamek

[Sweet Jesus]

Bute, Pirog, Adamek and the Klitschkos will have more opportunities on HBO for sure. They are all exciting (with the exception of Wlad) world class fighters and champions and HBO will jump at all of them so long as the opponent is up to scratch (e.g., not Brinkley, Briggs etc).

I agree that guys like Berto, Dawson etc seem to be given a pass on HBO to fight sub par opposition but I guess they bring in more viewing figures or something and there must be a financial reason.

Calzaghe fought bums for 10 years and as soon as he stepped up HBO showed him 3 times without qualm. I also agree Cleverly would go down a treat on HBO although I think he is at least a year away from a showdown with Pascal, Dawson or Cloud.

Alexander Frenkel is unproven at the moment and to be honest doesn't exactly have any star quality. Marco Huck and his horrendous technique is just downright abysmal to watch - he should be consigned to ESPN 2 for all I care.

But seriously though, I don't really see why HBO would put any of these Eastern Europeans on... noone in America cares. They want to see Americans and Europeans who can actually fight without looking like an epileptic at a strobe light convention (e.g., Huck) or stinking out an entire arena (e.g., Wlad numerous times).

Anyway - summary: The good ones with some star quality seem to get on HBO/Showtime etc and that's all fine by me (Abraham, Adamek, Froch, Khan etc...).

Only way the Klits ever show up on HBO again is if they fight Haye or Adamek

[have_not]

Pirog, abraham, lebedev/frenkel, boytsov, golovkin, cleverly, gamboa. This fighters will bring back alot of EXITEMENT in boxing esp usa. They should keep bute, pascal, cotto but get rid of other many fighters..

[Shattered Jaw]

Only way the Klits ever show up on HBO again is if they fight Haye or Adamek

Yup.... Or each other!

[Sweet Jesus]

Yup.... Or each other!

And then you woke up.

[onechance87]

They should have angulo,canelo,jones,bute,pirog,rios,khan,ortiz,mar quez
williams,lopez.They should cut berto and dawson.

[The Hammer]

Pirog, abraham, lebedev/frenkel, boytsov, golovkin, cleverly, gamboa. This fighters will bring back alot of EXITEMENT in boxing esp usa. They should keep bute, pascal, cotto but get rid of other many fighters..

Good choices.