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  • Peter Nelson Expected To Leave HBO Sports in Coming Weeks

    Peter Nelson, the executive vice president of HBO Sports, is leaving the network “probably within the next 30-to-60” days, a source with knowledge of the plans told BoxingScene on Monday. Nelson, of course, is well known to boxing fans because of his...

    8mos ago
  • HBO Reenters Boxing Ring, Developing Six-Part Series 'Unruly' On Jack Johnson

    HBO threw in the towel and ended its 45-year run with live boxing in 2018, but they are reentering the boxing ring again to create premium programming. The network is developing Unruly, a six-part series on the world’s first Black heavyweight boxing...

    9mos ago
  • A Long Day's Journey Into 'Nights' – Bingeing Through HBO's Legendary Documentaries

    By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Legendary Nights. Though the current generation of boxing fans might not feel an instant connection, chances are good that anyone with a couple more decades under their belt already has an image in their head. In layman’s terms,...

    10mos ago
  • Mayweather-Pacquiao Money Trail Leaves Mixed Bag Of Emotions 5 Years Later

    By Manouk Akopyan - Top Rank boss Bob Arum has presided over two-thousand fight cards in the last five-plus decades, and although he was a part of 27 Muhammad Ali fights, he didn’t have the honor of promoting the “Fight of the Century” between Ali an...

    11mos ago
  • PPV Was Born With Holyfield-Foreman: 29 Years Later, Former HBO Boss Reflects

    After an 18-month stint developing new products for General Foods, Mark Taffet realized more stimulating challenges were desired in his career. Simply put, marketing peas and carrots, and other grocery store essentials, was not worth punching the clo...

    1yr ago
  • DiBella: Farmer-Diaz, Roman-Akhmadaliev Would've Been Classic B.A.D. Doubleheader

    Lou DiBella couldn’t help but feel nostalgic when looking at the undercard lineup for the next DAZN bill. The Hall of Fame-elected promoter has a vested interest in this week’s pre-Super Bowl boxing card, which airs live from Miami, Florida (Thursday...

    1yr ago
  • HBO Gave Up Boxing One Year Ago: Does Boxing Miss HBO?

    By Mitch Abramson - It’s been 13 months since HBO decided to move away from boxing, and two things remain true. HBO still doesn’t do boxing, and Larry Merchant is still making astute observations. Yes, it’s been a little more than a year since HBO de...

    1yr ago
  • Jim Lampley Reacts To The Passing of Harold Lederman

    As previously reported by BoxingScene.com, respected boxing judge turned broadcaster Harold Lederman, best known as the unofficial scorekeeper for HBO Boxing, passed away at 79 after battling cancer.

    1yr ago
  • HBO's Peter Nelson Reacts To Passing of Harold Lederman

    As BoxingScene.com reported earlier, well known boxing judge Harold Lederman passed away at the age of 79-years-old, after a long battle with cancer. In 33 years as a judge, Lederman scored more than 100 world championship prizefights on six continen...

    1yr ago
  • Jim Lampley Recalls Bizarre Buster Douglas-Mike Tyson Broadcast

    By Lyle Fitzsimmons - If you’re a boxing fan of a certain age, it remains an indelible memory. And whether you watched the broadcast live or blearily scanned for results after a Saturday evening spent elsewhere, the moment a certain six-word phrase h...

    2yrs ago
  • Muhammad Ali - Two Part Documentary, Debuts on HBO, May 14

    The two-part HBO Sports documentary WHAT’S MY NAME | MUHAMMAD ALI, chronicling the extraordinary life of one of the 20th century’s most iconic figures, debuts TUESDAY, MAY 14 (8:00-10:40 p.m. ET/PT), with both chapters airing back-to-back in a specia...

    2yrs ago
  • De La Hoya: Nobody in HBO Upper Brass Had Passion For Boxing

    Last year, Golden Boy Promotions made a big move when they signed an exclusive five year deal with streaming service DAZN. Golden Boy was looking for a new home after their longtime network partner, HBO, made an unexpected announcement to drop boxing...

    2yrs ago
  • BoxingScene's Rest of the Best of 2018

    By Cliff Rold - Some choices are easy. Oleksandr Usyk as Fighter of the Year, at this website and through just about every outlet that covered boxing in 2018, was as easy as it gets. Three major wins, unification of one of boxing’s deepest current di...

    2yrs ago
  • HBO: A Farewell to Arm(ed Combat)

    By Cliff Rold - HBO was never the only home of big time boxing. They did a hell of a job branding it that way. In 1986, Showtime secured the rights to Marvin Hagler-John Mugabi to make themselves a player and, for much of the 1990s, retained the serv...

    2yrs ago
  • Bivol-Pascal, HBO’s Last WCB Main Event, Peaked At 537K Viewers

    The last “World Championship Boxing” broadcast of HBO’s 45-year run in boxing drew lower ratings Saturday night than its previous such telecast. Nielsen Media Research ratings released Wednesday indicated that HBO’s main event, Dmitry Bivol’s victory...

    2yrs ago

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