U.S. Cellular Field To Host Boxing Mayweather-Guerrero PPV Buys Over 1 Million Boxing Keeps Searching For Growth Weekend Plans: Richard Schaefer HBP PPV To Broadcast Bradley-Marquez Fight Olympic Boxing Will Allow Pros For '16 Games HBO Cuts Ties With Golden Boy Boxing Group Bans Headgear For Competition Showtime Looks To Maximize Floyd Jr. Deal Merchant, Foreman To Call Top Rank Fight
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U.S. Cellular Field In Chicago To Host "Friday Night Fights" Season Finale
Published June 11, 2013...a Chicago baseball stadium hosted a professional boxing card was on Sept. ...Productions President Dominic Pesoli and Warrior Boxing Exec Dir Leon Margules are the "other promoters o... ...'s Olympic Park "will host top-level professional boxing bouts" starting in September, "boosting efforts t...
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Mayweather Gets Over 1 Million PPV Buys For First Showtime Bout, But Short Of HBO Finale
Published May 13, 2013The fight was the "first for Mayweather -- boxing's biggest star and the active pay-per-view king -...
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Boxing Keeps Searching For Growth As Mayweather Remains Key Draw
Published May 06, 2013After “wobbling for decades,” boxing continues to “fight for its financial life as one... ” But Top Rank Chair Bob Arum said, “Boxing is not growing in the United States.” Boxer Bernard Hopkins said, “Boxing is in better position now than 10 years ago when... However, boxing globally is “anything but banished to a neutral c...
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Weekend Plans With Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer: Ringing In Cinco De Mayo
Published May 03, 2013 by Theresa Manahan...ar, as the company views it as the “Super Bowl of Boxing.30 we will have a Fox Sports boxing event.
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HBO PPV Lands Broadcast Rights For Bradley-Marquez Fight; Showtime, CBS Prep For Floyd
Published April 24, 2013...ively made moves to challenge HBO’s dominance” in boxing since joining the net 17 months ago. ...ut fight “produced Showtime’s third-highest-rated boxing show since 2004 with a peak of more than 1 millio...
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Olympic Boxing Will Allow Professionals To Compete In '16 Rio Games
Published April 04, 2013Olympic boxing “finally will go pro at the 2016 Games in Rio de... The Int'l Boxing Association, which has “told its national governi... ...uilding effort that already is underway” with USA Boxing (BOSTON GLOBE, 4/2).
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Connecting With A Jab: HBO Decides To Cut Ties With Golden Boy For The Time Being
Published March 19, 2013...orts President Ken Hershman, who formerly ran the boxing operations at Showtime, made the decision "to par... ...the “former Golden Boy legal counsel, to run its boxing program after Hershman left for HBO. ...ned Showtime, the “vast majority of its televised boxing offerings have come from Golden Boy. ...olden Boy began providing it with the bulk of its boxing content” (SPORTS. But this is boxing, so you never say never” (Long Beach PRESS-TELEGR...
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AIBA Goes Against Conventional Wisdom, Bans Headgear To Help Curb Concussions
Published March 15, 2013The Int'l Boxing Association released rules this week that stated... The AIBA "mandated banning headgear in amateur boxing competition in an effort to reduce concussions an... ” In boxing, there also is the “belief that headgear makes it... ” Wang notes headgear “was added to amateur boxing in response to health concerns in the 1980s. ...decision yet about the use of headgear in Olympic boxing competition” (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 3/15).
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Showtime Sports Looks To Maximize Time, Value With Floyd Mayweather Deal
Published March 06, 2013...onves and Showtime Chair & CEO Matt Blank “follow boxing.” Their hope is that by “exposing nonboxing fans to Mayweather through CBS's various platform... ” While boxing, "Inside the NFL," and other sports shows “have t...
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Reunited, And It Feels So Good: Merchant, Foreman Will Call Top Rank Fight On HBO
Published March 01, 2013Boxing analyst Larry Merchant “is coming out of retireme... ...eman worked together on HBO's "World Championship Boxing," their “chemistry and often heated on-air disagr...
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Floyd Mayweather Surprises Boxing World By Leaving HBO For Six-Fight Showtime Deal
Published February 20, 2013Schaefer said, "This will redefine the way boxing press conferences are done. Almost “all of Showtime Championship Boxing’s main events over the past 12 months … have incl... ” Still, the knowledge that their boxing business “now depends so heavily upon the mercuri... ...er’s switch to Showtime “definitely damages HBO’s boxing brand, it would’ve been worse if Mayweather were...
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Back In The Ring: NBC's Next Boxing Telecast Set For April 20
Published February 20, 2013Heavyweight boxing returns to the air on NBC for the second time in... “The core boxing fan came back,” said NBC VP/Programming & Owned P... ...13 in the main event of HBO's "World Championship Boxing" at Radio City Music Hall in N.Y. The fight will...
