ESPN reports that “Premier Boxing Champions,” the upstart promotion advised by Al Haymon will replace ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights” starting Saturday, July 11th. The two year deal will run through July 2017 and include two shows on the ABC network on Saturday afternoons. The deal with ESPN includes 24 events over the course of the […]
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Premier Boxing Champions signs deal with CBS Sports and Showtime
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 […]
“The One” Payout Perspective
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. This time we look at “The One,” the fight between Canelo Alvarez and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Mayweather dominates in Majority Decision The look on Mayweather’s face when a Majority Decision was announced was not worth the $75 PPV price tag but it was still pretty good. Notably, CJ […]
PTI claims Boxing dead
Want to raise passion among combat sport fans? Advise the world the death of a sport. This happened with ESPN Pardon The Interruption recently as Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, the Stadler and Waldorf of the network talking heads decried that boxing was dead. Certainly, a part of this proclamation was to ignite a fire. […]
Carriage fees central issue to Fox Sports 1 holdouts
With its launch date Saturday, Fox Sports 1 replaces the Speed Channel and Fox Sports 2 replaces Fuel TV. But, DirecTV, Dish Network (Dish) and Time Warner Cable (TWC) do not have agreements to run FS1 and subscribers wonder if a deal will be done by Saturday. DirecTV, Dish and TWC represent a total of […]