HBO Boxing's final farewell (4K & Extended) 

Thank you. Great job. As a 50 year old, my childhood was filled with watching legend after legend on HBO. Some of my earliest memories are of watching boxing. Many of these memories were saved through VHS, then moved to DVD, now to digital hdd. I remember witnessing live the incredible (Gatti-Ward), the controversial (Chavez-Taylor & Starling-Molinares), the storm (Tyson) and the wacky (Fan Man in Holyfield-Bowe 2).....amongst hundreds of other moments. There was just something about the feeling HBO Boxing brought that no other network could bring.

Where did you download the final telecast?

Thank you so much for doing this man.

@@PiggieSmall hbo was the best. Many of the fights i was able to attend, many if the fighters inwas lucky enough having been in the gym with or met. Hbo was the best. Jim very nice guy and roy knew so much about boxing. Great times talking boxing.

Thank you!

Showtime is joining HBO in leaving Boxing after December 2023

For real

End of boxing really, fact is UFC and One Championship have done everything right and the promoters in boxing have done everything wrong milking megafights until they both lost and mean nothing anymore just look at AJ and Wilder managed by idiots.

@@AnkleMuncher one championship is terrible and the UFC doesnt even come close to the hype/promotions of any of these fights that took place on HBO. Every ufc fight is watered down due to the ego of those running the company not letting their stars be stars outside of the UFC promotion

They have a live TV channel with just pure HBO Boxing replays on tubi for free. I watch alot to remember the golden age 🙂🙂

So did I

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Unfortunately HBO had been wanting to end their boxing production for a very long time so it was inevitable. The main reason is that it was very expensive to produce and reaped very little reward. Once Pacquiao and Mayweather were done, HBO boxing was done as well. I guess they didn't believe in Canelo the way they believed in Mayweather/Pacquiao or De La Hoya before them.

Al Haymon took all of his entire stable of fighters including HBO's perennial cash-cow Floyd Mayweather to form PBC and buy air-time across multiple networks and platforms. Shortly after Bob Arum and Top Rank left HBO entirely and entered a deal with ESPN. The reasons are mostly attributed to money - with HBO stifling it's boxing budget for quite some time before these powerbrokers took their personnel elsewhere. HBO Boxing, despite it's production being second to none was becoming a second-rate power in it's last couple of years with only GGG vs Canelo and their looming rematch being the only significant bouts if interest. With platforms like DAZN on the horizon with a war chest to offer fighters ridiculous sums of money the writing was well and truly on the wall. The fights themselves will always be the same no matter who is hosting or commentating but there has been something severely lacking from boxing since HBO pulled out. No other network or platform makes it seem as good, important or serious as it should be.

@@GhettoMatt wow bro. Well said! Beautifully said.

@@GhettoMatt you’re right. Boxing is a very serious sport & should be presented as such. HBO was the best in sports production period.

I hope hbo brings back boxing

Howard Cosell was also great

You left out NO CLASS...

@@threerings1345 Watching it again I believe you're right. Strange considering how much he contributed. His role may have been small but I always looked forward to his score card throughout the fight

@@threerings1345 That's good to know. Lampley was always a class act. Thanks for the info.

And his daughter Julie Ledermann filled in for him at least once.

Nah. Boxing is dead as regular entertainment. There will still be big fights from time to time, but it will never be the same.

We can only hope. I’m so envious of those who got to experience this era.

Sadly showtime just announced it's boxing shut down 😢

Has nothing to do with that. Boxing just gradually started fading as a mainstream sport in the early 2000s. UFC had a lot to do with that. As well as fighters trying to replicate the whole Mayweather blue print without having earned it. This year has been pretty good. But I sorely miss the hood old days of the sport

Always make it about Mayweather. Like their boring wife-beating hero.

He got his own shine in the middle there.

Shazam

@@damnkris Good shout, but I’ve tried and I think the voiceover stops it detecting it properly.

The long and short versions are uploaded on YT "HBO Boxing theme song"