Is it me or has the pendulum swung to Showtime in regard to
its boxing programming? Remember it was
Showtime that took a chance of ELITE MMA which is now producing household names
in the UFC. But it’s boxing where
Showtime is now making its mark and with the signing of Floyd Mayweather, it
seems that the CBS owned cable station is looking to send HBO back to England
with a Money May “Chin up.” Let’s look
at the action over the weekend. HBO had
a doubleheader, in which its first fight received more boos than punches thrown
and the main event, well..I’ll come back to that later.
Meanwhile on Showtime, it also had a double main event starring
Cuban Erislandy Lara and hard puncher Alfredo Angulo and although the first
co-main event ended with a gruesome eye injury suffered by Angulo in the tenth mar. Angulo, prior to this withdrawal had sent
Lara to the canvas two times, with the most recent knockdown coming in the
ninth round. The fight was entertaining
and the crowd was still buzzin’ when the main event kicked off with Josesito
Lopez and Marcos Maidana, now this fight lived up to the hype, with the more
experience Maidana scoring a knockout, over a game and ready to throw down
Lopez. Lopez had Maidana hurt in two
rounds, however could not put it together to put Maidana out. Now lets roll to HBO, their main event
consisted of Chad Dawson putting his title against Adonis Stevenson and before I give my take on
on the fight, let me get this out. Once
again, I’m still complaining that Jim Lampley is still calling fights and my
main concern was that he was going to report or give a take on a boxer who,
well done the same thing he’s done.
Abused women. Stevenson was
charged, tried and convicted for 3 years for essentially being a pimp and
abusing women. This was not the story
Lampley should be reporting on, since he plead no contest for abusing his ex-girlfriend
and then breaking the restraining order and allegedly doing it again. HBO should do us a favor and get rid of
Lampley and his dumb boxing show.
Now for the fight, apparently Dawson is, what we thought he
was. A bum! Dawson should have taken a page from Jermaine
Tayler and quit while he was getting his behind beat by Andre Ward. But no, he didn’t see the writing on the wall
and on Saturday, got what everyone knew was going to happen to him. Knocked out.
And that was HBO boxing for Saturday and this includes going against
FUEL TV which had UFC fights on.
When Mayweather left HBO, he took it all and now it’s
Showtime!!
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