Comments Thread For: PBC on Spike TV: Tarver, Smith Join Broadcast Team

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New York, NY – Spike TV has added some serious punch to their “Premier Boxing Champions” series announce-team. Five-time, two-division world champion boxer Antonio Tarver and popular Bellator announcer and former professional MMA fighter, Jimmy Smith, will serve as color analysts for Spike TV’s inaugural season of “Premier Boxing Champions.”

Spike TV’s first “Premier Boxing Champions” event will take place on Friday, March 13 at 9:00pm ET/PT from the Citizens Bank Arena in Ontario, CA. The event will showcase two marquee match-ups including Andre Berto vs. Josesito Lopez and Shawn Porter vs. Robert Garcia.
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[Foreign Soil]

Best move for PBC yet. Tarver is really good on the mic.

[sicko]

Finally Tarver is back calling fights, he is brilliant at it. I like Paulie but Tarver and Al Bernstein was excellent together on Showtime.

[f15bone]

Mr. "I Took PEDS But Still Looked Soft as Charmin" Tarver....

Nice to see him do something he's still good at...cuz it ain't fightin...

[MrClutch85]

Tarver was good on Showtime good to see him back calling fights

[Larry the boss]

Tarver got a job.........................

[Scott9945]

Best move for PBC yet. Tarver is really good on the mic.

Absolutely. Showtime overreacted by firing him over a drug test in a fight nobody cared about. Hopefully this hastens Tarver in ring retirement, but not likely because he is supposedly broke.

[Foreign Soil]

Absolutely. Showtime overreacted by firing him over a drug test in a fight nobody cared about. Hopefully this hastens Tarver in ring retirement, but not likely because he is supposedly broke.

Agreed. They have no problems showing drug cheats in the ring, but on the mic? Different story. Palate Enhancing Drugs interfere with the business suit squeaky clean image.

[ИATAS]

Tarver got a job.........................

Makes sense Haymon gave him a job. If you recall, Haymon is the one that bailed him out of jail not long ago:

Antonio Tarver has just been released from a Florida jail ... and tells TMZ Sports he plans to hit the gym tomorrow to restart his boxing career so he can pay back his $200,000 debt.

Tarver was locked up in FL on a warrant from Nevada -- stemming from allegations he never repaid the Wynn Las Vegas on a $200,000 ******** marker from a 2012 ******** binge.

But Wednesday evening, Tarver says famed boxing manager Al Haymon spotted him the cash to post bail -- and he was released from the Pinellas County Jail. We confirmed Tarver has been released.

When we spoke with Tarver, the 45-year-old insinuated that Haymon ALSO spotted him the cash to repay the entire $200k debt to Wynn.

"It was a debt that I had," Tarver admits ... "a hiccup in the road."

Tarver says he's hard up for cash -- and hasn't "made a dime in two years" -- but vows to repay his debt to Haymon with his fists.

"With Al, it's all about friendship first ... I'm gonna pay him back by becoming the next heavyweight champion."

Antonio -- who fought back in November (and won btw) -- says he plans to hit the boxing gym first thing Thursday morning. Stay tuned ...

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2014/03/05/antoni...#ixzz3SDW6k76L

[Hougigo]

Absolutely. Showtime overreacted by firing him over a drug test in a fight nobody cared about. Hopefully this hastens Tarver in ring retirement, but not likely because he is supposedly broke.

Probably to cover there asses.

Keep him on the low so people would forget about the positive test and not ask too many questions.