Comments Thread For: Can Boxing's Future Include a Piece of Its Past?

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[CommanderVander]

I have already changed my viewing a little. I used to watch everything I could get my hands on.
Now when there are multiple cards on at the same time I’ll try and focus on just one.
I’ll defintely go back and watch the main events on the other cards but in terms of the deep undercards I’ll just search online to see if anything is worth watching.
I’d love fights to expand from just Saturdays. Morrison-foreman on a Monday? Jones jr-griffin 2 on a Thursday? I have lots of memories from mid week cards. Let’s bring them back

[mrpain81]

Good stuff.

Very good idea spacing them out, hard to concentrate on 2 let alone 3 cards happening at the same time.

If the replay is instant on DAZN and ESPN+ or SHO anytime, I might have to skip cards and just watch them later.

I do love how DAZN showed so many under card fights from their show in Boston, good way to see prospects coming up. Also I've noticed that ESPN has been also showing the under card fights, it's one of the good things that has come out of MMA getting big, they show all the fights and they deserve credit for Boxing implementing that idea.

[Mick Higgs]

Here in the UK we have to either stay up all night or get up at 4.00 AM if we wanna watch US cards. At least the Yanks can watch UK shows in the afternoon.

[Plick647]

morning, actually. cards on boxnation usually start ar 10am here on the west coast.

[Marvlus Marv]

Very good and relevant article. I think the sport probably has to adopt another day of the week other than Saturday as a legit 'big fight night' and now that I'm reminded Hagler vs Leonard was a on a Wednesday - well, if it was good enough for those boys then it's certainly good enough now. It would be such a shame to have Saturdays swamped with competing shows which kind of seems inevitable. I'm definitely feeling the renaissance and a renewed buzz for the sport but it'll will mean nothing if we continue to have so many stand offs between divisional champions. Arguably the best division, 147, has 4 champs - or 5 if you include Manny's WBA regular belt. It's a joke and it has to be sorted out. But what a WBSS that would be.

[Adamsc151]

I could quite happily spend an entire Saturday bouncing from coverage of one card to the next - family commitments permitting. The problem I have is watching simultaneous live cards as, not being a chameleon I can't put both eyes in different directions at the same time - christ knows how some people can get to grips with this multi-screening idea. Then the problem is avoiding news of the results before catching delayed coverage of a card that I missed live; which happened to me last weekend with the DAZN Chicago card. Once I know the results I end up skipping through the duller parts of fights, which kind of ruins the anticipation - like feeling/shaking the presents under the tree on Xmas eve, you know why you shouldn't but cant help it.

[_Rexy_]

Good stuff.

Very good idea spacing them out, hard to concentrate on 2 let alone 3 cards happening at the same time.

If the replay is instant on DAZN and ESPN+ or SHO anytime, I might have to skip cards and just watch them later.

I do love how DAZN showed so many under card fights from their show in Boston, good way to see prospects coming up. Also I've noticed that ESPN has been also showing the under card fights, it's one of the good things that has come out of MMA getting big, they show all the fights and they deserve credit for Boxing implementing that idea.

DAZN needs to put in bookmarks if you’re viewing later though. I don’t want to just randomly click on a 5 hour card looking for a specific match.

[mrpain81]

DAZN needs to put in bookmarks if you’re viewing later though. I don’t want to just randomly click on a 5 hour card looking for a specific match.

Very good idea, maybe u can send them a tweet. Hopefully they have people reading the forums for ideas.

Very good and relevant article. I think the sport probably has to adopt another day of the week other than Saturday as a legit 'big fight night' and now that I'm reminded Hagler vs Leonard was a on a Wednesday - well, if it was good enough for those boys then it's certainly good enough now. It would be such a shame to have Saturdays swamped with competing shows which kind of seems inevitable. I'm definitely feeling the renaissance and a renewed buzz for the sport but it'll will mean nothing if we continue to have so many stand offs between divisional champions. Arguably the best division, 147, has 4 champs - or 5 if you include Manny's WBA regular belt. It's a joke and it has to be sorted out. But what a WBSS that would be.

I've been following boxing since around 95-96 and the only big fights I can remember that weren't on a Fri-Sat-Sun were:

Roy Jones vs. Montell Griffin II - Was a PPV on a Thursday.

Mayweather vs. Carlos Rios - was on TNT on a Wensday.

Mosley vs. Eduardo Morales - Was on a Tuesday also on TNT.

[bigdunny1]

Good read with all these new platforms showing boxing we now have more boxing airing then ever and not enough Saturdays for it all. Makes perfect sense for promoters to stop competing head to head. Especially streaming apps. The old school model of HBO and Showtime had less flexibility to interrupt other programming and put it on another day for example HBO typically has their flagship shows airing on Sunday night they were not going to bump that for boxing, showtime has a contract for Inside The NFL on Tuesday ect. But if you are DAZN, ESPN+ you can air fights any day anytime and multiple streams because you are not a single linear channel feed.

NFL airs their biggest games on a Sunday night, Monday night and occasionally Thursday night and they draw monster live ratings and fill massive stadiums. I see no problem moving some of these fights to different nights so that fans don't have to choose which to watch live. Everybody wins and maximizes exposure. If NFL season is over Sunday night is the best day hell WWE for decades uses Sunday night to air their biggest PPV events. If football season is going on Tuesday night should be used.