When the January 28 HBO Boxing After Dark doubleheader was first announced, its matchups were met with mixed reviews. Francisco Vargas was due to make the second defense of his super featherweight title versus Miguel Berchelt, while the man whom he defeated to win said belt – Takashi Miura – would open the show versus veteran trialhorse Miguel ‘Micky’ Roman.
By Cliff Rold - Over the past two years, the volume of boxing on the air has made for plenty of nights that can come, go, and be forgotten altogether without much consequence. That’s a natural byproduct of more. Every game doesn’t really matter in an NFL season. Every pitch isn’t pivotal during baseball’s September stretch drive. Most of the basketball season is a framing devi...
NEW YORK – Showtime Sports produced a rare ratings victory over rival HBO Sports for competing boxing broadcasts Saturday night. Viewership for Showtime’s doubleheader, which featured a WBA featherweight championship rematch in which Leo Santa Cruz avenged his defeat to Carl Frampton, peaked at 643,000, according to ratings released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. The Santa Cruz-Frampton rematch drew an average audience of 587,000 viewers from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
By Cliff Rold - This weekend, boxing fans with subscriptions to premium cable outlets HBO and Showtime can complain that the two shows will run head to head. They can’t complain about what they’re getting. Both networks have the sort of matches that can provide fight of the year type action in the main event...
Felix Cash has provided some further light on the March 17 card on which Jake Ball will return. Boxing Scene reported on Tuesday that Ball (7-1, 6 KOs), who suffered a devastating knockout defeat at the hands of JJ McDonagh last time out, will make his comeback on the card but details regarding the bill were scarce at the time of writing.
At a London press conference today, Hall of Fame Promoter Frank Warren and his new broadcast partner BT Sport announced initial details of the first four events to be broadcast on both BT Sport and BoxNation. Taking place at London’s iconic BT Towe
LAS VEGAS, NV - Erislandy Lara, the WBA/IBO 154-pound champion, scored two knockouts in his match against Yuri Foreman in Miami on Premier Championship Boxing on Spike TV last Friday night. One in the ring to retain his world titles and another in the ratings.
ESPN and Golden Boy Promotions today announced a multi-year, international agreement for a series of fights to be televised live on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes. The first fight, from Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California, is March 23. Fighters on the card will be announced soon.
An average of 454,000 viewers watched the James DeGale-Badou Jack fight Saturday night on Showtime, according to figures released Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research.
NEW YORK – The Danny Garcia-Keith Thurman fight will be made available to the largest possible television audience. CBS will air their welterweight title unification fight on free television March 4 from Barclays Center in Brooklyn. An announcement will be made during a press conference Wednesday afternoon at Barclays Center, where the fight finally will be announced officially. CBS hasn’t televised a live boxing event since Thurman beat Shawn Porter by unanimous decision in their entertaining 12-rounder June 25 at Barclays Center.