Anyone Else Hate The New Boxing Format

[iamboxing]

I absolutely hate the new trend in boxing fights that PBC and Showtime are following. If you don't know what I'm talking about it's where a few rounds in we get...

Okay, let's go to Lisa (look how progressive we are) who's with trainer....

a few more rounds

Let's see what our studio members think....

a few more rounds

Let's go back to Lisa who's with Khan who's fighting next...

a few more rounds

and our Lisa is with Crawford, let's hear what he has to say


another round and yet another anchor

Let's go to John who's with Khan's trainer now...

Meanwhile, I'm missing what's being said in the corner and can't see the fighter's mood between rounds. It's not even warranted half the time because the fight is so ****ing dull.

HBO did it better. No gimmicks, no shoehorning female anchors that add nothing to the event, 100% focus on in between rounds.

[mlac]

couldnt agree more, its unbearable, its literally constant non stop talking, call me old fashioned but can they all just stfu and let 2 people call the fight?

funnily enough the podcast im listening to right now, just mentioned the very same thing and had a line about kriegal that had me burst out laughing:

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[Rip Chudd]

I'm with you man. I miss just listening to the broadcasters and the cornermen in between rounds

[Thuglife Nelo]

Network Executives want it commercialized like other sports what do you expect? It's their product.

WAR DAZN

[EasternEuroFan]

I've also found that American commentary these days has the commentary team talking amongst themselves rather than blow by blow action in the ring.

The British broadcasts are decent, well if you get past the obvious cheerleading, at least they still focus on what's happening in the ring.