Espinza drops Friday night Showbox from Showtime.

[sicko]

Basically no more TMT Fighters choking on Friday Night Showbox

I'm more of a fan of the Next Generation Events from ShowBox, showcase REAL TALENT like Erroll Spence Jr and other young up and coming fighters trying to make names for themselves, not Mayweather untalented Sparring Partners

[puro dinamita]

I rather watch bad boxing than no boxing at all!

Well seeing your avi, I guess you preffer not to watch any boxing lol

straight up man boxing is boxing must have it every friday this sux

[Luilun]

Can things get any worse over at Showtime?

https://twitter.com/RickGlaser1/stat...18239987556352

Next they'll file bankruptcy and get out of playing Floydie

[RSBonos]

It was ruined two years ago when he came on. Aside from that sick Molina come from behind KO, it has been a wasteland of overpaid Haymon tuneups.

[RSBonos]

So this guy is a MMA fan or something? He seems to hate either boxing or showtime.

He's the hero boxing deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

Never doubt "The Racoon"

[tomhawq]

not surprised at all. espinoza is clueless from the very beginning.

his main advisers are schaefer and haymon. two clowns who use huge piles of cash to close deals. i mean how hard is that? and where will the money come from? where else other than showtime's coffers.

it's good for short term business, but bad in general. it may be good for boxers who benefit from it, but how many boxers are there who don't get that kind of money? the distribution is way out of whack.

[RSBonos]

These prospects are the ones trying to build in this sport and if they arent that good then fine they are still the ones who will go on to fight the superstars or blue-chip prospects. ATG, HOF, up to today, fighters have their records filled with these type of guys. Shobox at least we got to see these guys before and can get somewhat excited for the future matches.

Im a fan of the sport and in a perfect world superstar will fight superstar every fight but we dont live in one. Ill take more over less of this sport anyday

Are you really this dense?

Shobox was all about putting in top prospects against each other, it was never about padding records.

Keep the learning on the job fights on FS1. Shobox was 10x better in the past and they ruined it.

[Divine Hammer]

People need to wake up and realize that Espinoza and his master al haymon are bad for the sport of boxing.

[DeadLikeMe]

I thought I was going crazy thinking ShoBox Next had gone to garbage. Guess I wasn't alone.

[2501]

Reading this thread, I'm not sure how some of you aren't realizing that the sport is TRULY dying. It's not that people just don't care for boxing, it's that the greed, ego and corruption within the sport is preventing the type of fights that attract fans to the sport.

The Arums, the Haymons, the Dirrells, the Mayweathers of the sport have to so much harm commercially. Detractors will quickly point out Mayweather's financial and rating success as some sort of indicator proving that the sport is doing just fine, but you fail to realize is that his success is HIS only. Floyd may be a boxer, but he's a BRAND himself. His success and popularity does not translate, transfer or pass on to the sport or any other fighters.

Boxing will be slowly removed form networks because of lack of interest. It will only be 1 or two networks that will stick to the programming.