Anybody else miss HBO boxing on a Saturday night? These stream services aint cutting it for me...

I miss them a lot and will cancel hbo tomorrow.

 

Nothing will ever match the atmosphere of a big night of boxing on HBO. Nothing.

 

100%. was so sad to hear it was over. feels like boxing is in life support right now because of it. some of my fav sporting tv events ever were huddling around with my friends for a party i threw for some major hbo fight.

 

HBO World Championship Boxing was an American sports television series, having premiered on January 22, 1973 that has shown a number of significant boxing events since then.

WCB's first event was fought in Kingston, Jamaica, where George Foreman defeated Joe Frazier in two rounds to win the world heavyweight championship.

Memorable events
Famous matches broadcast on World Championship Boxing include: The Rumble in the Jungle, in which Muhammad Ali regained the world heavyweight title from George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire in 1974; Thrilla in Manila, the final encounter between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier; Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney, for the World Boxing Council heavyweight championship; The Battle of the Champions, when Aaron Pryor beat Alexis Argüello in their first fight; Carnival of Champions, in which Wilfredo Gómez beat Lupe Pintor, and Thomas Hearns beat Wilfred Benítez; Marvin Hagler-Thomas Hearns fight, billed as The War; Thunder Meets Lightning, in which Julio César Chávez beat Meldrick Taylor with two seconds remaining in the twelfth round; Michael Moorer vs. George Foreman, in which Foreman KO'd Michael Moorer to become the oldest heavyweight champion of the world at age 45; James Douglas's stunning upset of Mike Tyson for the undisputed world heavyweight title in Tokyo, Japan; The World Awaits - Floyd Mayweather, Jr. beat Oscar De La Hoya for the WBC super-welterweight title; "Undefeated" - Floyd Mayweather, Jr. beat Ricky Hatton to retain the WBC welterweight title with a TKO in the 10th round; The Dream Match - The Welterweight match between Manny Pacquiao (moving up 2 weight classes) against Oscar De La Hoya (moving down 1 weight class). Pacquiao won by TKO before the 9th round began (De La Hoya retired on his stool), Mayweather Jr. vs. Pacquiao, when Mayweather outpointed Pacquiao over 12 rounds in one of the most widely seen fights around the world in boxing history (on May 2, 2015), and Alvarez vs. Cotto in which Canelo Alvarez outpointed Miguel Cotto by 12 round unanimous decision on November 21, 2015.

World Championship Boxing has also had three spin-off series, Boxing After Dark, KO Nation, and MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout—a weekly broadcast co-produced with Turner Sports for sister cable network TruTV.[2][3]

 

The old tvko theme was badass!

 

the commentators I've heard on the ESPN, DAZN and in paticular Fox/Showtime are grating hype machines trying to inflate the excitement of average or sub par match ups. Jim Lampley and Manny Stewart were and still are the bench mark.

 

Nostalgia is great to look back on, there were some fantastic nights on HBO. You tend to remember the great nights only and forget the bad ones. There will be great fights in the future on DAZN just give it time, we have Canelo v Jacobs soon the first mega fight on DAZN. I enjoyed the card last week in Philadelphia, the atmosphere and fights were very good. Not in terms of names on paper but matchmaking. Boxing is in a rebuilding stage in the US at the moment, with the money being throw about, it won't be long until you start seeing "classics"

 

No , HBO was horrible in its last years so no.

 

How many Streaming services do you guys in the US have to pay for separately?

 

And the good ole days of USA Tuesday night fights

 

HBO production was seamless. Just beautiful. It felt like a night at the fights.

We'll never see a production like that again.