Yeah, I saw this on the news. "Sucks" is an understatement. This is tragic for some of us old-time, hardcore boxing fans. I very much remember the times you mentioned when HBO and Showtime were both the mainstays of championship boxing. I always looked forward to the intros to the boxing cards on those networks. The days of Buffer on HBO, and Lennon on Showtime. The electric atmosphere of the entirety of the programming.

To me, this is just another brick falling off the wall. Another move toward some sad times in boxing. Everything now is streaming, overcharging for everything... specially making a travesty of PPV fights (where everything now is PPV). I guess the sport will survive. It always has. But it's morphing into a totally different product. Even fighters nowadays are different. It's all about "getting there" as quickly and painlessly as possible... maybe with tons of social media following and out-of-the-ring hype. Fighters now talk more than ever, even more than they fight.

But I went off on a tangent.

Fact it... I'm totally bummed out about Showtime. So far I've resisted paying for DAZN... and for the foreseeable future, I don't see that changing.