Comments Thread For: HBO is Leaving Boxing After 45 Years, Network Announces

[Jab jab boom]

Ima cancel hbo, resubscribe when game of Thrones comes back, and then cancel again once it's over.

[Willy Wanker]

Very sad news, a lot of younger fans here and people who only started watching boxing recently, but this is a sad day for fans who watched HBO boxing in the 80s-90s-mid 00s.

I don't see what's to celebrate, HBO was once the pinnacle of boxing. Their production was top notch, not just the live events but the documentaries, 24/7 specials, etc.

HBO has produced some of the best boxing moments in history, but started going downhill in the last decade. In the end, HBO did it to themselves.

R.I.P. HBO Boxing

Thanks for the memories.

[clemenza]

Lets be honest folks, HBO Boxing has been finished since the Late Arturo Gatti Retirement. Arturo carried that network for along with Shane Mosely & Roy Jones for a decade. The only positive is I never have to hear Harold Lederman and those 2 ultra Radicals Lampley & Kellerman.
Lampley cooled his leftist views on air but Max was total garbage. That network is full of ******* poop. Now stick with Bill Maher & all there other anti American programs. Real Sport with Bryant Gumble . That’s is quality programming.
Adios, and take Oscar Delahoya with you.
And that’s that

[Andrij]

Damn what my man Roy gonna do? Ill even miss Jim "**** ****" lampley. Espn should pick them up they already have Kellerman. I like Tim Bradely hes a great guy but that broadcast team sucks. theyre boring as hell.

Lampley will retire because he is a 70 year old granddad now. Yes Bradley is good but Roy Jones is better.

[Szef]

I wonder what they’re gonna do after Game of Thrones ends? There isn’t going to be much of a reason to have HBO at all.

The Deuce is pretty damn good. It's a David Simon's show - the guy who made The Wire. Season 2 just started a few weeks ago.

[KTFOKING]

Kellerman already works for ESPN so he might end up there. Roy Jones will choose between ESPN & FOX.Lampley goes into retirement. He is nearly 70 years of age.

I don't know if Lampley will go into retirement or not. Think he still has some time left.

Kellerman to ESPN makes a whole a lot of sense obviously.

If FOX hasn't set their crew yet, then Roy to FOX makes sense.

Truly an end of an era, almost all of my first boxing moments came from HBO.

[eco1]

hbo was not around in 1973. were they? huh...

[Pinoy4ever]

R.I.P. HBO and thanks for all the great moments

[eco1]

ok, 1972, but did they have Boxing???? mmmmm

[Scipio2009]

Who will Canelo sign with??

Who knows, tbh. ESPN and DAZN seem like the only real viable suitors, NBC Sports could jump in.

What's pretty clear though, is that Oscar is ****ed; without the stalking horse of the chance of an offer from HBO, Oscar is left negotiating against himself for access at some point for his fighters.

In a similar way to what they've done with Mikey Garcia, I can fathom Showtime mainlining a deal to bring Alvarez back home for his 2 PPVs/3 fights per year (with Alvarez choosing the promoter he wants to stage his fights) but that's it.

Oscar better hope that the money from those Facebook fights adds up; otherwise he's left with hoping that Arum or Hearn give up a piece of their budgets to help him build up his own fighters, lol