ESPN reports that Showtime has secured the U.S. rights to the Anthony Joshua-Joseph Parker heavyweight title fight on March 31st. The fight will unify three world title belts. The fight will take place at Principality Stadium in Wales where its anticipated that 80,000 will be in attendance. The event will air 2pm PT/5pm ET. The […]
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HBO Boxing After Dark draws 719,000 for Matthysse fight
HBO’s Boxing After Dark drew an average of 719,000 viewers on Saturday night for the main event featuring Lucas Matthysse and Tewa Kiram according to Nielsen. The fight peaked with 769,000 viewers. Mathysse stopped Kiram in the 8th round. The event drew a 0.26 in the A18-49 demo. The opening bout of the night saw […]
GGG-Canelo set for May 5th
Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez have agreed to a rematch on May 5th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event hopes to replicate September’s entertaining matchup which ended in a majority draw. HBO made the announcement on Monday. The first event drew 1 million buys and its anticipated that this rematch would do […]
Errol Spence draws 637,000 on Showtime Saturday night
Errol Spence’s win over Lamont Peterson on Showtime Boxing Saturday night drew 637,000 viewers on the premium cable channel. Spence’s victory drew 257,000 in the A18-49 demo per Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The peak audience drew 695,000 viewers during the fight. In addition, the undercard featuring Robert Easter, Jr. and Javier Fortuna drew 462,000 viewers […]
Belfort asks for pay after Hall pulls out of UFC St. Louis
MMA Fighting reports that Vitor Belfort has asked the UFC to pay him for being ready to fight at UFC St. Louis but it appears that Dana White is claiming that due to the fact that he turned down replacement fights, he will not be compensated. Belfort’s opponent, Uriah Hall, was unable to weigh-in on […]