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For years, HBO has marketed itself as a home for big stars in big fights. Its flagship series, World Championship Boxing, routinely pulls in high ratings. So, too, does its secondary series ...
Indications that spending by boxing manager Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions has been clamped inspired HBO’s Jim Lampley to address the issue in his closing essay on “The Fight Game ...
There’s two solid Saturday cards, both with championships at stake ... Meanwhile, over on HBO starting at 10PM ET, which might be just as the UFC card is winding down, there are two light ...
But the match won’t deliver a knockout punch for HBO. The premium pay-TV channel helped build boxing into a television heavyweight, dating to the 1973 championship bout between George Foreman ...
“This is not a subjective decision,” Peter Nelson, the executive vice president of HBO Sports ... a three-year extension with Premier Boxing Champions, which represents several of the ...
The event will be televised live by HBO. Chávez is trained by Freddie Roach ... He's a rugged, dangerous fighter with decent boxing abilities and a strong punch, whose greatest victory came ...
For 45 years, HBO has been the one constant in a boxing fan’s life. The premium cable network took a while to get rolling after it entered the boxing space by airing the 1973 heavyweight title ...
HBO Boxing production staff, which included play-by-play announcer Jim Lampley, analyst Max Kellerman, ringside scorer Harold Lederman and former boxing champions Andre Ward and Roy Jones Jr., who ...
Exactly five years ago, HBO pulled out of the boxing business, which was a shock to the sport. “I had heard about it before I read about it,” recalled Seth Abraham, the former head of HBO ...