Who Knew the "B" in HBO...

...stood for "boxing," the "O" stood for "on the house" and the "H" stood for "Holy shit! It's..."

The disarray of the sweet science can be observed in the following three facts:

1. Joe Calzaghe (43-0; 32 KO) vs. Mikkel Kessler (39-0; 29 KO), a fight everyone wants to see (it's like Tyson-Spinks), is going to be shown for free on HBO on November 3. It's a super-middleweight fight (168 lbs).

2. Kelly Pavlik (31-0; 28 KO) vs. Jermaine Taylor (27-0-1; 17 KO), a fight between two guys who knock people out more often than Mickey Finn (was that a hack reference?) is going to be shown for free on HBO on September 29. It's for the middleweight title (160 lbs.).

3. Juan Marquez (47-3-1; 35 KO) will fight Rocky Juarez (27-3; 19 KO) in a featherweight (126 lbs.) bout on Pay-per-view September 15. THIS fight, out of the three, is the one promoters tapped as the big moneymaker? Who is running this show?

The only question left for boxers is, do you guys even want to make money at this anymore, or are you trying to get your brains beat out for free?