Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment venues, Barclays Center and Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum Presented By New York Community Bank (NYCB), will be the sites for select Premier Boxing Champions Series (PBC ) events in 2017.
The “PBC on FOX” boxing tripleheader headlined by WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder’s knockout of Gerald Washington averaged 1.76 million viewers Saturday night, according to ratings released Tuesday morning by Nielsen Media Research.
Los Angeles - FOX Sports announces that four-time world heavyweight champion Evander "The Real Deal" Holyfield and current featherweight world champion Abner Mares join the FOX Sports broadcast team as analysts for PREMIER BOXING CHAMPIONS: WILDER VS. WASHINGTON live on FOX and FOX Deportes Saturday, Feb. 25 (8:00 PM ET), from Legacy Arena at the BJCC in Birmingham, Ala. In addition, FOX Sports and industry leader NextVR team to deliver the two-hour show in virtual reality.
The live telecast (9:00 p.m. - 12:13 a.m. ET) delivered series records of 501K Persons 2+ (+73% vs. the prior PBC - The Next Round event), 285K Men 2+ (+47%), 120K Persons 18-34 (+264%) and 201K P18-49 (+95%). Viewership peaked with over half a million total viewers 2+ (557K).
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...
Premier Boxing Champions opened its third season with an explosive collision between newly-crowned WBC 126-pound champion Leo Santa Cruz and Ireland’s Carl Frampton, and a devastatingly impressive performance by Mikey Garcia, who scored a devastating third round knockout against Dejan Zlaticanin to win the WBC 135-pound world title this past Saturday night in Las Vegas.
On October 31, 2016, Defendant Alan Haymon (“Haymon”) filed a Motion for Summary Judgment [Docket Nos. 147, 310]. On November 9, 2016, Plaintiffs Golden Boy Promotions, LLC, Golden Boy Promotions, Inc., and Bernard Hopkins (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed their Opposition [Docket Nos. 212, 215, 255]. On November 14, 2016, Haymon filed a Reply [Docket Nos. 270, 272, 274].
BoxingScene.com has received an official statement from the Haymon Boxing legal team, regarding our earlier story with respect to their victory in their ongoing legal battle with Golden Boy Promotions, who were seeking millions of dollars in damages for various claims.
By Jake Donovan - As is supposed to be the case with anything related to the Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) movement, the big news that came out of Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday, January 18 was supposed to be all about the boxers involved in said announcement. Instead, a press conference held to reveal the...
Carl Frampton already was a world champion at the start of this year, but his accomplishments in 2016 placed him at the top of the entire boxing universe. The 29-year-old native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, reached a level of success this year that most boxers could only dream about, traveling to two countries to win world titles in two weight divisions against a pair of undefeated champions-with the second victory coming in a Fight of the Year contender.