I agree with the posters who have given the style points to HBO (seriously, Showtime needs to lose that cheesy "Saturday Night" intro with the computer animated American Flag-shorts boxer); but give the substance points to Showtime for recent coveraged--Showtime's practice of paying for individual fights rather than signing contracts with fighters (like HBO) has been a good thing. And HBO's PPV-ing of things like Barrera-Peden (a really fun fight to watch because Barrera put on a technical clinic and looked incredible, but an unsurprisingly uncompetitive fight) is especially annoying; I won't pay $50 to see a Tarver-Hopkins snoozefest (like I didn't pay $50 to see a washed-up Mosley beat a washed-up Vargas).

Still, HBO reliably replays all of these fights the next weekend for free. And they do seem to be getting better about this--they've got a bunch of prime fights that they're showing for free this year, of which Wright-Taylor tops the list (cuz I definitely would have paid to watch that one). Basically, I think we should just be happy that Showtime's gotten its sh*t together on the substance, because the competition is making both networks' boxing coverage better than it's been in a while.