Comments Thread For: HBO Offers Promotional Triple During Boxing's Drought

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Saturday night was supposed to mark the end of HBO’s unofficial, five-week summer hiatus from televising live boxing.

Kazakhstan’s Gennady Golovkin was scheduled to make his long-awaited American premium cable debut in a meaningful middleweight championship unification fight against Russia’s Dmitriy Pirog. That tantalizing showdown was scrapped in early July because Pirog suffered a back injury.

Polish southpaw Grzegorz Proksa (28-1, 21 KOs) replaced Pirog (20-0, 15 KOs) as the opponent for the hard-hitting Golovkin (23-0, 20 KOs) and their 12-round fight for Golovkin’s WBA middleweight title was shifted to Sept. 1 in Verona, N.Y. HBO will instead offer a different type of tripleheader late Saturday night. [Click Here To Read More]

[Phenom]

HBO had ****ty year as far as boxing what was the best Free HBO fight this year? Chavez vs Lee?

[Corelone]

At one time there were thousands of boxers in New York alone. Los Angeles had three or four boxing arenas. Now we have boxing drought. What happened?

[-PBP-]

HBO had ****ty year as far as boxing what was the best Free HBO fight this year? Chavez vs Lee?

Yup. That or Martinez vs Macklin

[rey guey]

the great thing about boxing is one great fight makes you forget about all the so so fights you see. the bad thing about it is that it makes you forget about the robberies too.

[Phenom]

Yup. That or Martinez vs Macklin

its insane man Epix had the best main events this year

[JeromyM]

so Golovkin vs Proska is not on now? That freakin sucks.

[TheGunslinger]

so Golovkin vs Proska is not on now? That freakin sucks.

It's on but for September 1.

[-PBP-]

its insane man Epix had the best main events this year

Word. ShowTime been pretty decent for the most part too.

The last four months of this year will be stacked though.

[JeromyM]

ok I was confused. the tripleheader deal is this Saturday. My bad. I treated Big Dan about it.