HBO DROPPING OUT of the Boxing Business, After 45 Years...

^^This....

 

Hbo is BACK in the boxing bizness

Reality series on max featuring Jake and Logan Paul

 

And WE... have a new era.... in BOXING.

 

On fubo they show old HBO broadcasts

 

Do they have any Harry Greb fights?

 

HBO/Warner Bros just gave AEW a third rate Rasslin'/WWE company 185 million per year for the rights to stream their 2 weekly shows on HBO MAX...

You telling me they can string together $150-250 million a year for a one or two boxing card a month...I get now that with the terrori....Arab/Sheik/Akbar it will be more difficult to get fights made for a reasonable price....but still...

 

So very saddened to hear the passing of legendary boxing scribe Michael Katz. For years, he was my source of all things boxing when at the New York Times and NY Daily News. Was a terrific mentor at the start of my own writing career. Will be forever missed.

 

No. But I think they showed a Chop Chop Corley fight.

 

Those are HOBO broadcasts

 

Q: What's the difference between a hobo and a homo?



A: A hobo has no friends. A homo has friends up the ass.

 

Mike Katz, Wally Matthews, Steve Kim, Thomas Hauser, Jerry Izenberg, Wrong Borges ( called ONE FUCKING FIGHT HIS WHOLE CAREER) Kellerman... that whole scene, if you wanted to sum up American cultural hubris of the 1990s and early 2000s as a pugilistic synecdoche then the above are it.

In their defense, they will never be this bad.

 

I don't think the littlest hobo took anything up the ass. Maybe the vets finger.

 

I didn't know they had that show on the other side of the pond.

 

Is that StingerKarl?

 

If it was filmed in Canada, it was beamed directly onto Irish TV screens in the 80s/90s...beachcombers, littlest hobo, kids of degrassi street, anything funded by the national film board of Canada...

 

Interesting. Never really liked any of them (especially Degrassi) other than Littlest Hobo, but that's when i was a little kid.

 

Can't believe nobody gave these guys jobs

 

Ireland bought all the shit that was way past it's expiry date. Highway to Heaven, Littlest Hobo, Kids of Degrassi Street, 8th Street Cambodians.....no wait that's something else.

 

Beachcombers. That shit was fucking epic. Finally people in Ireland got to see other humans with worse teeth worse clothes and worse prospects than they themselves had. And it seemed just as WET over there as over here.

I'll say this for KoDGSt, it had a very very short poignant theme. Not some blaring mindless cacophony.

 

This was pre-Zoom. If you didn't leave the house, you didn't work. Period.

I'll be honest:- fuck HBO and Ring. There's better opinion and effort offered up at this website than by those guys.

I mean look at Joyce Carol Oates. Who told her she could write about boxing? Woman gets taken in by obvious frauds and spoofs.

Who are these people?

 

Lol

It's IRON TRUTH, dammit.

 

The only Canadian shows I remember getting as a kid were Bizarre & SCTV. I watched Bizarre reruns every night. Could never catch SCTV. Later, Kids In The Hall (could never catch it.)

Now there's Murder In A Small Town. I watched the first episode. It was unfolding slowly so I ditched it. I did read good reviews on it.

 

I remember when the only real source fur boxing news in Ireland was on the magazine shelves. Nobody ever bought those fucking magazines. They all went bust. Ring magazine, Boxing monthly, Bert Sugars Fight Game (horrid magazine) KO magazine etc. All made money at one point.

Plus it's not like they were dumping cold hard facts to the bitter end either. Ring was particularly bad even 20 years ago.

Nobody really wants articles now. They want 3 minutes of highlights they can watch while filming a beef at a bus stop.

 

Littlest Hobo was the shit. Maybe tomorrow.

Tended to be UK and Aussie stuff over here like Round The Twist.

 

Littlest Hobo probably inculcated millions of kids over here with some sort of severe procrastination syndrome.

 

Gerry Callan was about as good as it got in Ireland. He too was forced to write bollox to pay the bills,in the end.



Is Katie Taylor the noblest of them all - Gerry Callan weighs in on the champ

 

Steve Bunce.....

 

really. They shoved that shit through your throatts? thats hilarious

 

We thought it was ok. Decent enough at the time .

It was acceptable in the 80s.....