Golden Boy Looking to Have Greater Presence on Showtime

Golden Boy Promotions has traditionally held the majority of their major television bouts on HBO. After all, that's where Oscar De La Hoya plied his trade for a decade and a half, along with some of the other early stars and figureheads from the promotional organization such as Shane Mosley, Bernard Hopkins and Marco Antonio Barrera. However, earlier in April, Golden Boy had their first Showtime ShoBox boxing card.

The ShoBox series on Showtime is dedicated to scheduling prospects with the potential to rise up the ranks. The series has mostly done a good job in arranging tough and competitive matches with young boxers on the rise. As the cheaper outlet on Showtime as opposed to their headline championship cards held about once per month, ShoBox has also been home to a variety of lower profile fights with more accomplished fighters.

What all of this means is that now that this territory has been breached, you can expect Golden Boy and their fighters to have a much larger presence on the network. This is big news, because the Golden Boy stable is large and ever-growing, and as mentioned already tends to dominate the offerings provided by HBO.

Showtime, and the ShoBox series, has been more the domain of other promoters such as Gary Shaw Productions. So this move signals that Golden Boy and their large cast of high quality young boxers will be able to have another prominent television outlet, while fighters from other, smaller promoters may have more difficulty obtaining televised coverage.

Conversely, it could signal a shift away from the Golden Boy dominated thinking that has prevailed at HBO over the past several years. Some of their prospect-headed cards have fizzled, and perhaps HBO has realized that dedicating the majority of your programming to just one or two promoters is not always the best way to conduct business.

Time will tell what the exact effects of this transition will be, but one thing is for sure, you can expect to see more Golden Boy fighters and prospects on Showtime over the coming months.