Pick It: TBRB #1 Deontay Wilder vs. #2 Tyson Fury (Saturday, ESPN/Fox PPV, 9 PM EST). What really needs to be said about this heavyweight showdown? Wilder (42-0-1, 41 KO) attempts his eleventh WBC tit...
Pick It: TBRB #4 Caleb Plant vs. Vincent Feigenbutz (Saturday, Fox, 8 PM EST) - Super middleweight has the pieces to be hot. It’s already plenty interesting. IBF titlist Caleb Plant (19-0, 11 KO) is a...
It isn’t often that a replay out-performs a premiere, but that’s what happened when FOX aired promotional programming late Saturday night for the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury rematch. According to Nielse...
There aren’t many American sports fans that don’t at least know about the upcoming Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury rematch. According to Nielsen Media Research, the two Wilder-Fury II commercials that aired...
Gary Russell Jr’s world title defence against Tugstsogt Nyambayar this weekend will be the first of three live events on BoxNation this month, as the UK channel ramps up its coverage after agreeing a ...
Yordenis Ugas was a huge favorite to beat Mike Dallas Jr., but FS1’s telecast of their main event Saturday night drew the cable network’s highest rating for boxing in five months. Nielsen Media Resear...
MIAMI—Between the city’s general vibe, Super Bowl week and all of the boxing and YouTube personalities in town, the sport has finally found its ritmo in South Beach. The atmosphere for the pre-fight w...
Silly social media boxing isn’t this scribe’s thing but a lesson seems to have been learned from the last round of it. This time, they’ve come up with a pretty stacked card to hopefully build off the ...
The 2020 season is set to kick off February 21, with the good news that it will be the first of 16 shows on the year. The four-show promotion was revealed at a special kick-off presser Wednesday after...
Today, FOX Sports and ESPN announce an extensive preview programming lineup in advance of the highly anticipated rematch between undefeated heavyweight champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder and ...
Not quite as many viewers watched Jeison Rosario stun Julian Williams on Saturday night as saw Williams upset Jarrett Hurd to win three 154-pound titles eight months earlier. Nielsen Media Research fi...
Fox’s big investment in boxing resumes in 2020 with a trip to one of boxing’s shining lights. Jr. middleweight has delivered multiple gems in the last few years. It may have another on tap if Julian W...
By Keith Idec - Gordon Hall has taken the same steadfast approach to this 250th edition of “ShoBox: The New Generation” that he took to the series’ premiere 18½ years ago. It’s the only way, according...
Viewership for ESPN’s boxing doubleheader went up Saturday night once the Titans’ upset of the Ravens ended, but still was lower than usual. According to Nielsen Media Research, ESPN’s main event betw...
Claressa Shields’ domination of Ivana Habazin drew lower viewership than her prior appearance on Showtime. Nielsen Media Research revealed Tuesday that a peak audience of 288,000 watched Showtime’s te...
Vudu, Walmart’s digital video service, and entertainment and sports media company Whistle, today announced Vudu has ordered the eight-episode docuseries, Legacy, from Whistle. The new Vudu Original wi...
By Thomas Hauser - Bill King is a senior writer for Sports Business Journal and has honed his journalistic skills over the course of three decades. He's more than able to ferret out the details of a s...
By Thomas Hauser - On May 10, 2018, Eddie Hearn (managing director of Matchroom Boxing) and Simon Denyer (CEO of what was then Perform Group) announced a joint venture at a press conference in New Yor...
Gervonta Davis’ victory over Yuriorkis Gamboa drew Showtime’s second-highest viewership for a boxing match in 2019. Nielsen Media Research revealed Tuesday that Davis’ 12th-round stoppage of Gamboa at...
The worst kept secret in boxing was finally revealed with the announcement of the rematch between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury serving as a joint pay-per-view venture between ESPN+ and Fox Sports. Wh...