SHOWTIME Sports will chronicle the buildup to the welterweight world championship between Senator Manny Pacquiao and must-see attraction Adrien Broner with a new installment of the Emmy Award-winning series ALLACCESS. The multi-part series premieres Friday, January 4 at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME and airs on consecutive Fridays leading into the January 19 SHOWTIME PPV® from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Scheduled for the Saturday night before Christmas, the timing of the debut of FOX’s rebooted boxing partnership with PBC wasn’t ideal. The “PBC Fight Night on FOX” tripleheader still attracted respectable viewership. According to figures released Thursday by Nielsen Media Research, FOX’s three-bout broadcast from Barclays Center in Brooklyn drew the second-highest viewership of any boxing telecast this year in the United States.
By late Saturday night, two of the three potential opponents that most interest Daniel Jacobs will have headlined cards in New York. Soon enough, the Brooklyn native will make a network/streaming decision that’ll make one of those opponents more likely to fight him. The IBF middleweight champion confronted Canelo Alvarez in the ring last Saturday night at Madison Square, but Alvarez is far from Jacobs’ only option.
When the Dillian Whyte-Dereck Chisora rematch was announced two months ago, it was presumed that DAZN would stream that fight live in the United States because that streaming service is aligned with Eddie Hearn, Whyte’s promoter. BoxingScene.com has learned, however, that the Whyte-Chisora rematch will air live in the U.S. on Showtime on Saturday afternoon.
Current and former world champions Carl Frampton, Lee Selby and James DeGale “have a platform to stage big fights in their home country without having to travel oversees” thanks to an exclusive three-year deal between Haymon Sports’ Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) and Britain’s ITV, said Tim Smith, Vice President of Communications for Haymon Boxing, which handles all three fighters.
Vasiliy Lomachenko-Jose Pedraza was the second most-watched boxing match on American cable or network television this year. Nielsen ratings released Tuesday indicated that ESPN’s Lomachenko-Pedraza fight attracted an of 2,013,000 viewers Saturday night from The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. The entire three-fight telecast averaged 1,865,000 viewers over three hours and 23 minutes.
Last night, Top Rank on ESPN (9:12 p.m. ET to 12:35 a.m. ET.) witnessed Vasiliy Lomachenko (12-1, 9 KOs), the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world (according to ESPN.com ranking), accomplish another career highlight.
FOX Sports and Premier Boxing Champions today announce exciting preview programming leading up to the FOX PBC FIGHT NIGHT on Saturday, Dec. 22, including the PBC COUNTDOWN and PBC FACE TO FACE shows. Before Jermall Charlo defends his WBC Interim Middleweight title against top-rated contender Willie Monroe, Jr., and Jermell Charlo makes the fourth defense of his WBC Super Welterweight championship against hard-hitting former title challenger Tony Harrison on Dec. 22, fans can watch these shows to learn more about the boxers and what motivates them heading into these title fights.
The Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury fight was a critical success and a commercial success. BoxingScene.com has learned that Showtime Pay-Per-View’s four-fight show, headlined by their riveting heavyweight title fight Saturday night from Staples Center in Los Angeles, slightly exceeded 300,000 buys in the United States. Figures from many cable companies in the U.S. haven’t been officially submitted, but initial indications from cable and satellite operators that have reported to Showtime are that Wilder-Fury should reach a maximum of 325,000 buys when the numbers are completely compiled within the next three months.
IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence and four-division title winner Mikey Garcia appeared FOX's telecasts of the past two Dallas Cowboys victories over The Washington Redskins and New Orleans Saints in advance of their March 16 clash on FOX Pay Per View (9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT) at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.