Comments Thread For: HBO, Showtime To Televise Shows Simultaneously on January 28

[GMAN SUPREME]

Both will get low ratings. Even when one does more than the other it wont be by much. Whats the point?

its usually showtime losing the head to head against HBO.its true they need to stop with the competing cards they both lose ratings.

[JASON SHAW]

i love how boxing is always doing it's best to implode. Great work fellas.

you mean the idiots at hbo who decided to put a card full of mismatches against a stacked pbc/showtime card..... Thats hbolds fault! Thats why their budget has been shrinking since floyd left that dying rat ship

[Teetotaler]

its usually showtime losing the head to head against HBO.its true they need to stop with the competing cards they both lose ratings.

Thats usually true but with lsc and mickey mouse on the card it can attract alot of people over to Showtime

[GMAN SUPREME]

you mean the idiots at hbo who decided to put a card full of mismatches against a stacked pbc/showtime card..... Thats hbolds fault! Thats why their budget has been shrinking since floyd left that dying rat ship

look at this pbc lap dog.those HBO mismatches beat pbc so called stacked cards in the ratings when they go head to head every time.froid went to showtime and what does showtime have to show for it? showtime is still in second place behind HBO!!!

[Scipio2009]

HBO decided a while ago to not invest in boxing anymore. When I got into boxing 20 years ago, no one had Showtime for boxing and every boxing fan that could afford it, had HBO. There wasn't even a question about it. Now Showtime is the big dog, and HBO is just keeping the customers they had for decades.

Which brings up point number 2. This is incredible b.s. Haymon had a golden opportunity to turn boxing back into a mainstream sport. Instead he put on a few good fights (you can count them on one hand), a lot of look-good fights, and some cards that had no business being televised. Now he is about out of money and so all the decent fights are back on Showtime. These investors shoulda put me in charge. I would offer top fighters top dollar to face another elite fighter. I would have boxing on the same channel, the same night, at the same time every week. espn or spike would gladly be the channel. I would offer Danny Garcia $10,000 to fight Vargas and over a million to fight Thurman. If he would be happy with $10,000 and no chances then whatever, that would be his choice. He wouldn't be raking in piles of money for facing bums though.

But now that the money is gone, ole Al just calls it PBC even though it is the same boxing Showtime has been showing for a decade now.

^^^lol, look at this guy

[Raonic]

I'll be watching showtime.

[MrRolltide91]

Welp.......

[kiaba360]

its usually showtime losing the head to head against HBO.its true they need to stop with the competing cards they both lose ratings.

The network who chooses the date last is creating the problem. This time, it's HBO's fault.

PBC put Framp/LSC on Showtime already, why not free TV for the rematch? With competition from HBO, the ratings are probably gonna be worse than last time (480K average).

[ironlungs]

I prefer to watch fights on hbo because it seems like they have better cameras and I like listening to lampley kellerman and jones over malignaggi kenny and bernstein. But im gonna watch showtime live and dvr hbo this time.

[rogdogx]

I have to see Mikey Garcia take on this guy. Sucks it costs you the opportunity to see Miura fight. As far as the Vargas fight or the Santa Cruz-Frampton fight, that's a toss up for me.