Has Showtime over taken HBO as the boxing network?

[Bullrider]

YEAR 2013

[_original_]

oh yea...the last one i remember was Khan-Alexander

They had the Ivan Redkach fight this past Friday on Showbox. Then this coming week they'll have Wilder VS Stiverne.

[Bullrider]

Don't know where this "SHO has taken over" crap comes from.

Top 16 as per Fat Dan on twitter:

1 - Chavez-Vera 2 - 1.39M (HBO)
2 - BHop-Kovalev - 1.328M (HBO)
3 - Golovkin-Rubio - 1.304M (HBO)
4 - Crawford-Gamboa 1.208M (HBO)
5 - Marquez-Alvarado 1.198M (HBO)

6 - Donaire-Walters 1.088M (HBO)
7 - Provodnikov-Algieri 1.046M (HBO)
8 - Salido-Lomachenko 1.017M (HBO)
9 - Kovalev-Cedric Agnew 1.006M (HBO)
10 - Viktor Postol-Aydin 1.002M (HBO)

11 - Kovalev-Caparello 990k (HBO)
12- Golovkin-Geale 984k (HBO)
13 - Pascal-Bute 982k (HBO)
14 - Garcia-Herrera 972k (Showtime)
15 - Bradley-Chaves 966k (HBO)
16 - Arreola-Stiverne 940k (ESPN)

[Da Machine]

I really like showtime. The crew, the production, etc, but it appears they are all but finished. Who do they even have to show fights with anymore? Haymon is going to NBC, Golden Boy is putting guys on HBO, and Top Rank has always been HBO. HBO has been getting the foreign fights.

I think Showtime had its one year in 2013. That's too bad too. I like boxing on Showtime.

[North Star]

YEAR 2013

lol, so even the miraculous 2013 Showtime year is debunked. The only thing not shown on this list were the May and September PPV's. That is not enough to propel them to the number spot in 2013 even.

Showtime is, has, and always will be second tier to HBO.

[manoamano]

SMH at all these Haymon groupies.

Al Haymon groupies be like: he pays my bills :blow:

[daggum]

lol, so even the miraculous 2013 Showtime year is debunked. The only thing not shown on this list were the May and September PPV's. That is not enough to propel them to the number spot in 2013 even.

Showtime is, has, and always will be second tier to HBO.

the ppvs were designed to attract more overall viewers to showtime but that just didn't happen. in fact the ppv's cost showtime money. total fail. or what we call a total haymon.

[El-blanco]

My question is....will HBO ever be king of the hill again?

Go look at the numbers ******. What a pathetic fan boy.

[-PBP-]

No. They don't even have the budget to support Haymon's roster. That's why he's moving to NBC.

[Guest]

HBO has more subscribers so I would expect their numbers to be better.

What would be cool is if Showtime's parent company, CBS Corporation started showing fights on CBS!


One can dream I guess.