Comments Thread For: Friday Nights Lacking, No Longer The Same For Boxing Fans

[ea22]

We got PBC doe

[PhillyBox11]

People, please! FNF was the closest thing we have in America to slave labor. Come on, 5-10k for boxers to fight main events? It was disgraceful what they were paid on ESPN. And don't give me that fighters got exposure crap - the money fighters made on national tv was a travasty.

[Guest]

I do miss FNF but through the years and budget cuts, the quality of the fights went down dramatically. Sometimes you got lucky and there would be good fights but overall it progressively got worse as time went on.

I was kinda hoping there would be fewer but more competitive fights, but right now it just seems like fewer fights on Friday nights to watch.

[Fetta]

Never cared for FNF. I watched but toe-to-toe is so much better.

1:50AM and Im ****ing DRUNK!!!

[-PBP-]

The quality of Friday night fights deteriorated so badly and the network was no longer attracting the best prospects. Some nights there were bar and club fighters as main events.

I went to one of the last cards live and it was Breidis Prescott vs Frederick Lawson. Come on man. That is what you are missing? Willie Monroe vs Brandon Adams is what boxing is missing? You dudes yourselves were calling these guys "ESPN fighters" as an insult along the lines of bum, cab driver, goat herder, possible GGG opponent, etc.

LA Fight Club, Toe to toe Tuesdays, Top Rank live streams, Unimas, Fox Deportes, Bein, PBC on Spike, CBS sports all give you the same quality of fights and you still get boxing every week.

[Eff Pandas]

Unless you just liked seeing Atlas & company more often I don't see whats been lost. There are more prime-ESPN type level fights happening on other networks then ESPN were showing in recent years. I'm all for more boxing on TV, but I think we have gotten that since ESPN FNF has closed up shop.

Plus be real ESPN has a commitment to boxing like a whore gots a commitment to her latest man. MMA gets better coverage than boxing gets on ESPN. ESPN has more MMA people in studio & hyping fights then they ever did with boxing/boxers.

[-DSG-]

The quality of Friday night fights deteriorated so badly and the network was no longer attracting the best prospects. Some nights there were bar and club fighters as main events.

I went to one of the last cards live and it was Breidis Prescott vs Frederick Lawson. Come on man. That is what you are missing? Willie Monroe vs Brandon Adams is what boxing is missing? You dudes yourselves were calling these guys "ESPN fighters" as an insult along the lines of bum, cab driver, goat herder, possible GGG opponent, etc.

LA Fight Club, Toe to toe Tuesdays, Top Rank live streams, Unimas, Fox Deportes, Bein, PBC on Spike, CBS sports all give you the same quality of fights and you still get boxing every week.

Good Post my dude the quality had becomes trash only thing I miss about FNF was the in studio stuff they would preview the big fights coming up and even do interviews and stuff only thing I miss.

[jwalkr]

The news segments were the best. Especially when Brian Kenny was the host.

[ShoulderRoll]

Good Post my dude the quality had becomes trash only thing I miss about FNF was the in studio stuff they would preview the big fights coming up and even do interviews and stuff only thing I miss.

Yeah, the in studio stuff is what I miss about FNF. They would do a good job discussing current events and upcoming fights.

It was a much better version of HBO's "The Fight Game" without the bias and agendas.

[richardt]

Friday night fights was somewhere in the middle, sometimes showing blatant mismatches, almost as bad as top skank and golden crap, and sometimes as good as ShoBox and PBC with solid even matchups. If Friday night Fights had a bigger budget they could have been more like the latter instead of the former.