Top Rank Boxing drew 305,000 viewers on ESPN Thursday night according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The event drew just a 0.09 household rating. The main event for Thursday night was altered as Mikkel LesPierre was taken off of the card due to his manager testing positive for COVID-19. His scheduled fight with Jose Pedraza […]
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Main event participant out of Top Rank event due to manager positive test
Multiple reports cite that Mikkel LesPierre has been taken off of Top Rank’s card tonight due to his manager testing positive for COVID-19. His manager, Jose Tavares, had been in direct contact with the boxer and based on Nevada protocol needs to be quarantined and thus removed from tonight’s fight. LesPierre was scheduled to fight […]
Top Rank Boxing draws 350K on Tuesday night
Top Rank Boxing drew 350,000 viewers on Tuesday night according to Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily. The nearly three hour telecast drew a household rating of 0.13. The main card featured Josh Greer taking on Michael Plania with the Filipino taking the victory over the American. Plania earned a majority decision over Greer after he knocked […]
Greer tops payouts from Tuesday’s Top Rank event
The Nevada Athletic Commission released the payout sheet for Top Rank Boxing’s event Tuesday night in Las Vegas. The headliners received the top payouts of the night. Per the commission, Kyle Greer was the highest paid boxer on the card with $75,000 and Michael Plania made $40,000 although a notation on the sheet seemed to […]
Julio Cesar Chavez appeals Nevada’s ruling on suspension due to declining drug test
The Julio Cesar Chavez-NAC fight in Nevada is not going away as last week the boxer’s attorney filed a Notice of Appeal in Nevada of the dismissal of JCC’s lawsuit. The appeal might be a continuation of an alleged claim which occurred in Wanderlei Silva’s lawsuit against the commission in 2016. ORDER Julio Cesar Chavez […]