Boxing doesn?t have seasons, or much boxing either, anymore, but it does have pay-per-view events that mark artificial seasons. These happen late in winter, spring, summer and fall. This year?s late-winter and late-summer offerings were weak and dreadful, respectively. This year?s late-fall season kicked-off Saturday with the first episode of ?24/7 Pacquiao/Margarito.?
If you?re not thinking that it would be better to read a column about boxing than one about television about boxing, you should be. To such a concern I offer the merest anecdote:
One summer, after suffering through a semester of Eng102 at Arizona State University I happened on its professor in the ASU Rec Center and told him what I thought of his class. And he replied, ?Boring to you? I had to teach the damned thing.?
We make a mistake if we discount the need for boxing on television, though, and that is why we take a look at HBO?s ?24/7? program and its effect. Much as we make of competitive undercard matches and b-side fighters in main events, network researchers snicker at our concerns because t
