“Legendary Nights†Return To HBO in 2008 “Legendary Nights†Return To HBO in 2008 In 2003, HBO Sports introduced “Legendary Nights,†a 12-part documentary series showcasing 12 of the most memorable fights that have appeared on HBO. The series notched a Sports Emmy for “Outstanding Edited Sports Series/Anthology.†Ross Greenburg, president of HBO Sports, and Rick Bernstein, executive producer of HBO Sports, announced today that they will revisit the series next year. In the 2008 programming year, HBO Sports will return with a fresh six-week installment of “Legendary Nights.†The six new shows will be hand-picked from the fight library of HBO, which is in its 35th year of televising the best in professional boxing.
:bears: Wonder what they'll have. De La Hoya-Vargas? Trinidad-Vargas? Gatti-Ward? Maybe Mayweather-De La Hoya since it was such a huge event.
Dirrell-Stevens! Klitschko-Austin! Calzaghe-Manfredo! Lewis vs. Holyfield should make the cut. Don King made credentials costing over $2,000 each. He took them back, of course.
i think they should add an appendix to each show in which the entire fight is shown. "beyond legendary nights."
also, Hamed/Barrera - i bet they include that one. i'd think they'd opt for Pacquia/JMM over Pacquiao/Morales - if they had to choose one. plus, i'm not sure they're gonna be all recent, are they? for example, couldn't they go back and get a fight like, Nunn/Toney? or RJJ/Toney? or Gomez/Pintor?
toney-nunn wasnt on hbo. rjj-toney was hardly legendary. i think they'd pick up from where they left off.
Hopkins vs. Trinidad for sure..cause it was for the undisputed middleweight championshiop of the world....and a few weeks after 9/11 Mayweather vs. De La Hoya...why? don't know..
I remember on this forum people saying that the hype around Hopkins-Oscar would make for a legendary night. Morales-Barrera will be the only ones to make the list. They won't have Pacquiao.
This is good news. I don't want to start another thread so i'll just ask it here. Most of us have a good idea of some of the ones that will be featured. Which ones would you like to see that may not make it and why?
i kind of agree. it's like boxing for idiots. it seems to focus on everything but the fight. and it gives writers the chance to basically re-write history by boiling the fight down to a few sentences that are always way over-simplified and misrepresentative.
Gatti-Ward was an all time great fight, but honestly, there was no big build up or hype for the fight. Ward was pretty much a journeyman, and Gatti was considered on the downside of his career before the Ward fights brought him back into the mainstream. I guess they can do something about the triology in it's entirety. TFK
Hate to say it,but the Roy-Tarver Trilogy will B on there...Other than Tyson-Douglas,Roy-Tarver II is Probably THE Most SHOCKING Fight HBO has had... REED
De La Hoya vs. Jeff Mayweather? I'll go with the main event of that card instead. One of my favorite fights ever. TFK
legendary nights isnt necessarily about the quality of fights. look at tito-oscar, that was a shit fight, but because of its significance, it was on legendary night. hopkins-trinidad was the most significant fight in last 6/7 years imo.
They better have the Pac-Morales and Gatti-Ward fights, or even take the trilogies and condense them into one show each.
I don't care about Legendary Nights anymore. How about showing the complete original broadcast of those fights plus whatever undercard fights were on.
Yeah... "Legendary Nights" is Basically a "Cliff's Notes" Version of the Fights...REED Loooooooooves All the Background Info & Stuff,but it Only COMPLIMENTS the ENTIRE Fight Itself... HBO Uses it to REPLACE Showing the Entire Fights... REED
the fact that non-fight fans, even people who never watch fights, enjoy legendary nights is all you need to know to see that it's an abortion perpetrated on the sport.
