New HBO Boxing Talk Show May 12th

Anthony (Bronx, NY)
HBO needs to make a weekly boxing news/info show like the NFL has. It could have Jim Lampley hosting, Kellerman, Emmanuel, Merchant and of course Dan Rafa with the inside scoop.

Dan Rafael (12:57 PM)

Glad you mentioned that. I will drop a scoop right here to the Fight Freaks. Lampley WILL be hosting a boxing news/talk/analysis show on HBO beginning in 2012. Exact date TBA. It will start as quarterly and could expand if it's a success. How's that for some good news?

Finally

About time.

It is about time. They needed to do a Inside Boxing like they have for Inside the NFL or MMA Live

Dan Rafael
The new 1/2-hour HBO #boxing talk show will be called Jim Lampley's Scorecard and is slated to debut in April. Quarterly to start.

If they're smart they'll put this on after my baby Game Of Thrones

I can not beleive it's taken HBO this long to come up with a boxing talk show. Boxing is their sport. They really on boxing more than they will ever admit.

GrantZilla wrote:I can not beleive it's taken HBO this long to come up with a boxing talk show. Boxing is their sport. They really on boxing more than they will ever admit.

I wonder if they'll copy Sky Sports Ringside format.

I just hope they don't use it as a platform just to promote HBO fights and actually discuss what's going in the sport from America to Japan, Heavyweight to Straweight.

Hagler's Bald Head wrote:I just hope they don't use it as a platform just to promote HBO fights and actually discuss what's going in the sport from America to Japan, Heavyweight to Straweight.

That's what I'm worried about. HBO is notorious for doing that. To them, no other boxing events exist unless it's on HBO.

Hopefully Hershman let's Lampley talk about everything that has to do with the sport.

great news

I'm not sure about this. Lampley's lost some of his credibility with me through his commentating over the years. He's great but he has a lot of bias and doesn't always seem to know a lot about the "opponent" on HBO cards. I hope this is more than an HBO preview show. I'd love for their to be recaps of international and locally televised fights.

Midnight seems a bit late no ?

Hagler's Bald Head wrote:Midnight seems a bit late no ?

It is, but HBO usually re-runs the stuff all week. I don't get HBO's programming sometimes when it comes to times. You're debuting a show at 12:30 on Saturday night? Fuck, that is a time period where regular TV puts info commercials on and pay channels air their softcore porn.

GrantZilla wrote:

Hagler's Bald Head wrote:Midnight seems a bit late no ?

It is, but HBO usually re-runs the stuff all week. I don't get HBO's programming sometimes when it comes to times. You're debuting a show at 12:30 on Saturday night? Fuck, that is a time period where regular TV puts info commercials on and pay channels air their softcore porn.

It's only 4 shows this year right? So why not schedule it around some of the WCB cards on HBO or put it on Sunday nights right before the Sunday shows HBO has?

RingTV.com: So can you give an overview of the show?

Jim Lampley:Well, it's a 30-minute show, and it's entirely for the boxing cult. And it's entirely about things that we see on the air, on our network and others in our sport.

I don't think anything like it has existed before, and I'm very, very excited about that.

RingTV.com: Can you reveal what sort of subject matter will be death with?

JL: Any and all, I would hope. Let's say that you were sitting down at a bar, and you were discussing boxing for an hour, let's say, with five other writers.

Given the day-to-day news landscape in our sport, with all of the things that go on, the things that you read about day-to-day in your reports and the reports of other writers and the blogosphere, anything is fair game.

So we'll talk about what happens in the ring, we'll talk about things in a business context, we'll talk about what kinds of things are happening in the culture as it relates to boxing.

RingTV.com: Examples?

JL: What if there's something going on on another network similar to things that we've done, such as 24/7, or, On Freddie Roach, I might review it.

If there's a movie, like The Fighter, I might review it. But that would the softest kind of material. Most of the material is going to be news, and legitimate news that is going on in boxing.

RingTV.com: So you would talk about the out-of-the-ring problems relating to Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao?

JL:Everything is fair game, and the ultimate focus is who beats whom and how and what that does to the hierarchy of the sport. That's the ultimate focus for everybody.

But, our sport is different from all other sports in that every event begins with a primary question, which is, "why are these two guys fighting each other?"

You don't have to do that with NFL football or Major League Baseball or college basketball, because there is a schedule that tells you why these teams are playing each other. But in our sport, there is no schedule, and there is no mandatory.

You can say that there are mandatories because the so-called governing bodies confront them. But at the end of the day, it's the fighters that do the business they want to do.

So at the end of the day, just as it is the case with every fight, our show begins from the perspective of "why are these guys fighting each other?" And then, we'll go forward from there.

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I don't think anything like it has existed before,

Ringside, KOTV, Steve Bunce's Boxing Hour etc etc.