Their boxing coverage, commentators, level of fights, choice of fights and fighters, all of that, it's been as good or better than ESPN for me. Do you agree?
FOX Sports 1 has kind of been a disappointment. Although I'll take all the boxing I can get, their cards are too far and few between . . . And the quality of the cards is subpar. NBC, however, has a good partnership with Kathy Duva/Main Events. Their shows are usually pretty entertaining.
ESPN is just so lame. They need to change things up. Their fight cards are utterly terrible and their format has been the same for a decade.
nbc is good i like them. ESPN they will have like 1 or 2 good cards there whole season. so ESPN deff needs to pick up the slack. an fox sports1 hasnt been around to long but so far it hasnt been anything special.
NBC is trying to force feed the public their polish fighters. adamek gets gift after gift. then the one guy got a draw against malik scott. it's the same **** over and over. if rosado had stayed the course on nbc...he might be emerging as a bonafied star at this point. but instead he chose to play the 'b' side to other fighters in bigger promotions. i agree that the commentary is better on nbc but that's because of the cruiser weight...dan rafael sucks. as for fs1. they come in last place. fights are ok. commentary is horrible. production quality...eh.
I'd agree that NBC and FSN have been putting on better cards than ESPN but I think their budgets are bit bigger than what ESPN has to work with. I know they aren't putting on HBO/Showtime quality fights(most of the time) but I'm glad they are in the boxing business.I think all three have cards on this Friday as well.
ESPN has had so many mismatches, some undefeated fighter with a good amateur record fighting a wino from the alley..................NBC has been doing pretty good job, EPIX has been a life saver when certain boxers have been botcottted.........
Boxing is an afterthought for ESPN. Even the best fights get maybe a 5 second spot on their prime time shows.