Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that CBS Sports and Showtime have brokered a deal with Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions to be aired on Saturday afternoons. The sides have agreed to an 8 show deal starting April 4th featuring light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson. In addition, shoulder programming will assist in promoting the fight […]
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Spike TV announces “Friday Night Lights Out”
Spike TV has announced that its combat sports-branded Friday night now has a name. Per a press release it has named it “Friday Night Lights Out” with the first night under the new moniker starting March 13th. Below is a portion of the Spike TV press release: Spike TV has given combat sports fans a […]
Rios-Alvarado trilogy scores 1.252M viewers
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports that Saturday night’s HBO boxing card featuring the third fight between Brandon Rios and Mike Alvardo drew 1.252 million HBO viewers. According to Nielsen the peak of the fight drew 1.315 million viewers. Per Rafael, it was the most watch fight of the three between Rios and Alvardo. Also on Saturday, […]
De La Hoya announces the launch of network
Oscar De La Hoya announced last week that he is launching his own network. De La Hoya TV will debut this spring as announced at the National Association of Television Program Executives annual conference in Miami. The network will offer combat sports including boxing, MMA as well as features on sports and lifestyle that will […]
Haymon buys time on Spike TV
MMA Fighting reports that Spike TV has added Al Haymon’s boxing organization to its Friday night lineup as the network will rebrand Friday nights as a combat sports night. The new deal which was announced at a press conference on Thursday is reported to be another time buy by Haymon’s group. Spike TV has Bellator […]