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By Thomas Hauser - It’s two o’clock in the afternoon on Thursday, July 24. Four men and a woman are in suite 2427 at The Affinia Hotel across the street from Madison Square Garden. Frank Villegas, James Pilott, Camile Maratchi, Albert Kim, and Matthew Chase are in the final stages of editing a half-dozen segments that will air on HBO’s Saturday night telecast of Gennady Golovkin vs. Daniel Geale and Bryant Jennings vs. Mike Perez.
Twenty floors below, Cory Green sits in a room with an unmade bed. Green was up until four o’clock in the morning, editing video from the previous day’s press conference into 60-to-90-second segments for distribution to boxing fans via various digital platforms.
These people are at ground zero for a unit known internally at HBO as “The Delta Force.”
“We understand that we’re not Army Rangers,” HBO Sports senior producer Dave Harmon says. “The name ‘Delta Force’ is meant to be ironic.”
The goal of Delta Force is to bond with fans by capturing the pulse of fight week. The initiative had its origins in 24/7, which was launched to coincide with the 2007 mega-fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather. 24/7 was premised on the belief that there are more stories to tell than the story of the fight itself and that telling these stories will strengthen the connections between HBO, individual fighters, and fans. [Click Here To Read More]
Twenty floors below, Cory Green sits in a room with an unmade bed. Green was up until four o’clock in the morning, editing video from the previous day’s press conference into 60-to-90-second segments for distribution to boxing fans via various digital platforms.
These people are at ground zero for a unit known internally at HBO as “The Delta Force.”
“We understand that we’re not Army Rangers,” HBO Sports senior producer Dave Harmon says. “The name ‘Delta Force’ is meant to be ironic.”
The goal of Delta Force is to bond with fans by capturing the pulse of fight week. The initiative had its origins in 24/7, which was launched to coincide with the 2007 mega-fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather. 24/7 was premised on the belief that there are more stories to tell than the story of the fight itself and that telling these stories will strengthen the connections between HBO, individual fighters, and fans. [Click Here To Read More]
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