Comments Thread For: Golden Boy's Fox Sports 1 Series Kicks Off on August 19th

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NEW YORK - Big-time boxing hits Broadway on Monday, August 19 when the brand new Golden Boy Live!series premieres on FOX Sports 1, America's new sports network,from Best Buy Theater in Manhattan with an exciting tripleheader. Headlining this groundbreaking event is top middleweight contender Danny Jacobs of Brooklyn facing former world title challenger Giovanni Lorenzo of Manhattan in a 10-round bout for the vacant WBC Continental Americas Middleweight Championship.

In the co-main event, the Bronx's Eddie Gomez risks his perfect professional record in an eight-round welterweight match-up against Philadelphia veteran Steve Upsher Chambers.

Adding to the local New York City flavor is 2012 U.S. Olympian and Staten Island native Marcus Browne who will be featured in a televised fight against an opponent to be determined as well as bantamweight prospect and Brooklynite Claude Staten Jr. who will be featured on the non-televised portion of the fight card.
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[DanboSmitty]

Goldenboy is killing TR and HBO right now. They can do no wrong for the moment.

[Tongva]

I will be tuning in to watch this triple-header. Perhaps, ESPN FNF will step up their match-ups after this next year.

[ShoulderRoll]

GBP is riding high at present. The other promoters need to step their game up.

[Downy_tax]

Damn Goldenboy Promotions is killing their competition. They are now on Fox which seems to be the same kind of deal like UFC but even better as they have 24 live events for the rest of the year.

I like how Mayweather promotions seems to be taking strides as well on Shobox.. Damn Bob Arum and Fitty cent done messed up.

[ramblingalp]

Goldenboy is killing TR and HBO right now. They can do no wrong for the moment.

Hopefully, they'll keep the bar set high for their competitors. It's a win-win situation for all of us boxing junkies.

[HeroBando]

Goldenboy is killing TR and HBO right now. They can do no wrong for the moment.

I'm not sure about this. Here are the best fights broadcast on premium channels this year: Bradley Prov, Rios Alvarado, Froch Kessler, Lara Angulo. Only one of these wasn't HBO, and that one got less than 500k people tuning in.

Now Sho does have Berto Karass and Wilder vs Lyak coming up, which will surely swing the balance

[HeroBando]

BTW, I applaud any extra boxing on TV, whatever the motives (here probably Showtime's tight budget). But GBP has had control over Fox Deportes for a while, and those shows blow chunks and not even reliable schedule wise. And that network TV thing sure went far, so far only Santa Cruz vs nobody to show for it.

[fceeviper]

Good for GBP, good for Fox, good for boxing fans!

[ladiesman217]

Will undercard fights that aren't part of the PPV be televised on FS1? Kinda like how the prelims at UFC are on FX.

GBP is doing everything they can to spread boxing back to the mainstream. What is Arum doing? Nothing! He doesn't even have a TV contract.