What happened to Showtime Championship Boxing

[Randall Cunning]

It is only one card in 2nd half of Sept, Oct, Nov, and Dec. That is pathetic. They usually have a card or two in Sept, skip October with College Football and the World Series, do a card in November and 1-2 in December. College football doesnt start the bowl games till the third week of december so Dec 1, 8 and 15 would have all been great dates for cards.

I guess they blew their budget and they probably had to blow some of their budget financing the Wilder-Fury cards minimums. It makes sense when you look at the weak undercard and how cheap it is.

Last year they only had Wilder/Stiverne 2 card, and the Charlo/Lubin, Hurd/Trout card in the same period.

[richardt]

Showtime Championship Boxing. Shobox has peanuts for budgets. Those are like FS1 and the GBP ESPN2 cards. Not talking about those

What ShoBox cards indicate is that A) Showtime is still in the business and B) ShoBox is where the future champions emerge to later go on to World Championship boxing matches.

[MasterPlan]

PBC signed a new 3 year deal with SHO that will begin in Jan 2019 with at least one PBC card per month. Even in the dormant months they usually don't go for (Sep-Oct-Nov-Dec) they will air boxing.

Both PBC (SHO-FOX) deals really don't kick off until the end of the year/beginning of next year.

[KTFOKING]

Last year they only had Wilder/Stiverne 2 card, and the Charlo/Lubin, Hurd/Trout card in the same period.

Right, par for the course for the most part. And Espinoza always mentions how he wants to slow down during this stretch. That's why he loads the first half of the year schedule. I just don't agree that you can't do good numbers during this time of the year as you absolutely can.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Lol this guy is the ultimate network fan. Where have you been the last 5 years? It’s always been like this

[Boxingfanatic75]

Showtime Championship Boxing. Shobox has peanuts for budgets. Those are like FS1 and the GBP ESPN2 cards. Not talking about those

I do like Shobox. However, bring me back ESPN Friday night fight with Teddy and Joe as well as USA Thursday Night Fights

[killakali]

Showtime usually slows their boxing content around the fall to avoid competition with Football they'll be back full force In January probably

never this slow. always had least one card in October or November. Usually November.

Not a good look to give boxing fans one card in 4 moths.

[killakali]

Last year they only had Wilder/Stiverne 2 card, and the Charlo/Lubin, Hurd/Trout card in the same period.

Wrong. U left out AJ vs Takam. Three cards in 4 months is a lot more than a single card in 4 months.

[killakali]

Right, par for the course for the most part. And Espinoza always mentions how he wants to slow down during this stretch. That's why he loads the first half of the year schedule. I just don't agree that you can't do good numbers during this time of the year as you absolutely can.

Wrong. And even if it was true last year they would have done double the cards as this year with one being a tripleheader. Stevenson-Gvozdyk is supposed to be a doubleheader.

But u guys left out Joshua-Takam.

As far as I can remember Espinoza has put on 1 card in Oct/Nov at least plus 1-2 in December.

Dropping to one card from mid September to at least mid January (at least a 4 month period) is a big cut in programming.

And remember Pac-Broner is sho ppv so showtime doesn’t do a card on 1/12 then the end of January is the soonest possible card.

[killakali]

What ShoBox cards indicate is that A) Showtime is still in the business and B) ShoBox is where the future champions emerge to later go on to World Championship boxing matches.

again not true. Shoboc are mostly non Haymon fighters and have low budgets. Prograis Barachuk all the GH3 fighters, Banner, Devin Haney etc aren’t pbc.

A lit of those guys will be headed to DAZN or espn