There was a time, not that long ago, that Manchester did not have much of a boxing heritage. That might seem unbelievable now for, after all – Ricky Hatton, Tyson Fury, Anthony Crolla, Anthony Farnell, Carl Thompson, Pat Barrett, Terry Flanagan, Scott Quigg, Maurice Core, Lyndon Arthur, even Amir Khan and Jamie Moore – it doesn’t take long to reel off a list of top boxers from Greater Manchester.
The undisputed junior middleweight championship rematch between Jermell Charlo and Brian Castano making its way back to the Showtime schedule was a priority for several reasons.
Showtime and Premier Boxing Champions announced a much-discussed spring and early-summer schedule Tuesday. The loaded slate of fights includes seven PBC cards that’ll air live on Showtime and two Showtime Pay-Per-View events, which will feature Errol Spence Jr. and Gervonta “Tank” Davis. From March 26 through July 9, the PBC/Showtime schedule will be highlighted by seven world championship matches, including two title unification fights, and three title eliminators.
Probellum has announced broadcast deals with fuboTV and ESPN KO to screen its back-to-back world title shows from Dubai to fans across North and South America.
Probellum has announced a multi-fight agreement with Discovery Sports. The partnership starts with back-to-back events on March 18 and 19 with Discovery Sports set to broadcast the two Probellum Evolution shows through Eurosport’s linear channels, discovery+* and Eurosport App** to millions of homes across 62 markets and territories in Europe and the Indian sub-continent.
Pick It: TBRB #2 Roman Gonzalez vs. #1 (Flyweight) Julio Cesar Martinez (Saturday, DAZN, 8:30 PM EST) - On a limited television weekend in the US, both major main events should deliver. The better of them comes in arguably the best division in boxing for most of the last seven years, Jr. bantamweight.
By Keith Idec - Joe Markowski knows boxing fans almost never forgive or forget, particularly when it comes to broken promotional promises. Now that DAZN has been forced to acknowledge that pay-per-view is very much alive and well, the last thing the streaming service’s savvy executive vice president intends to do is pretend he and its partners didn’t guarantee the elimination of that platform when they brazenly burst into the U.S. boxing market almost four years ago.
Wasserman Boxing and Channel 5 today announce an exclusive multi-event deal that will bring boxing to terrestrial television in a series of free-to-air fight nights delivered in association with Infinitum Entertainment and William Hill.
Pick It: Kell Brook vs. Amir Khan (Saturday, ESPN+, 1:00 PM EST) - After all these years, two of the UK’s finest square off in a grudge match that has already delivered venom in the war of words on the way to the ring. Almost a decade in the making, both men enter well removed from their championship days but, with both at 35, can hope to use this fight to vault toward another big payday.
Pick It: TBRB #3 Daniel Jacobs vs. John Ryder (Saturday, DAZN, 2:00 PM EST) - It’s a lighter weekend for the sweet science but the sport won’t be absent. The fight of the weekend is this subtle crossroads fight between a pair of veteran super middleweights who need to win now.