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Featherweight World Champion Abner Mares Also Serves as Analyst with Holyfield, Brian Kenny and Virgil Hunter
FOX Sports and NextVR Broadcast PREMIER BOXING CHAMPIONS: وایلدر VS. WASHINGTON Live in Virtual Reality
لس آنجلس – FOX Sports announces that four-time world heavyweight champion Evander “معامله واقعی” Holyfield and current featherweight world champion Abner Mares join the FOX Sports broadcast team as analysts for PREMIER BOXING CHAMPIONS: وایلدر VS. WASHINGTON live on FOX and FOX Deportes روز شنبه, فوریه. 25 (8:00 PM ET), از Legacy Arena در BJCC در بیرمنگام, علا. بعلاوه, FOX Sports and industry leader NextVR team to deliver the two-hour show in virtual reality.
Holyfield makes a special appearance as a guest analyst with the broadcast team of blow-by-blow announcer Brian Kenny, fellow analyst and long-time boxing trainer Virgil Hunter, Mares and reporter Kristine Leahy, during the exciting heavyweight bouts. The main event features the title fight between WBC world champion Deontay “بمب افکن برنز” متحیر کردن (37-0, 36 کوس) and unbeaten heavyweight Gerald “سیاه خروس” واشنگتن (18-0-1, 12 کوس), as well as the 10-round clash between hard-hitting Dominic Breazeale (17-1, 15 کوس) and undefeated Izuagbe Ugonoh (17-0, 14 کوس).
Holyfield reigned as both the undisputed cruiserweight and heavyweight world champion in a career that spanned more than three decades from 1984 به 2011. He successfully defended the undisputed heavyweight championship three times.
Holyfield and Wilder share a connection. Both were born in Alabama – Holyfield in Atmore and Wilder in Tuscaloosa, جایی که او هنوز ساکن است. Holyfield has followed Wilder’s career since the 31-year-old champion was a member of the U.S. boxing Olympic team and won a bronze medal at the 2008 بازی های پکن.
There is another Olympic connection between Holyfield and Ugonoh’s trainer, Kevin Barry. Holyfield and Barry met in the semifinals of a light heavyweight bout at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. The match was marred by controversy after Holyfield was disqualified in the second round for hitting Barry on the break. Because of the disqualification, Holyfield won the bronze medal for the U.S. team in the 1984 LA Games.
The fourth installment of PBC on FOX features the two heavyweight bouts, as well as a junior middleweight title fight. Once-beaten Tony Harrison (24-1, 20 کوس) and undefeated Jarrett Hurd (19-0, 13 کوس) battle in a 12-round affair for a vacant 154-pound world championship.
Working with NextVR, the two-hour PBC on FOX show is also broadcast live in virtual reality. For the second year in a row, multiple cameras set up around the ring capture the action in immersive, high-definition virtual reality, providing fans with the best seat in the house. The PBC on FOX boxing experience is available for free through the NextVR app. Fans with a Google Daydream or Samsung Gear VR headset, along with a compatible smartphone, can access the virtual reality experience by downloading the NextVR app from the Oculus or Google Play Stores.
Once the fights are done on FOX, the boxing continues for two more hours on FS1 & FOX ورزشی, with Kenny calling the action with analysts Mares and Hunter. That show is headlined by unbeaten prospect Caleb Plant (14-0, 10 کوس) against Ghana’s Thomas Awimbono (25-6-1, 21 کوس) در رویداد اصلی 10-دور.
در فاکس دپورتس, قهرمان سابق جهان و ورزشکار پروزن 2000 Mexican Olympic team member Daniel Ponce de Leon joins blow-by-blow announcer Ricardo Celis to call the action in Spanish.
FOX Sports also presents PBC’s exciting سهشنبه night series TOE-TO-TOE TUESDAYS on FS1 and BOXEO DE CAMPEONES on FOX Deportes. Follow on twitter at: @holyfield, @MrBrianKenny, @virgilhunter7, abnermares, @KristineLeahy, PremierBoxing, FOXSports, @FOXDeportes and @Swanson_Comm
طرفداران می توانند زندگی می کنند جریان دعوا در FOX ورزشی GO, موجود در زبان انگلیسی یا اسپانیایی از طریق فید FS1 یا FOX دپورتس. The fight is available on desktop at FOXSportsGO.com and through the app store, و یا دستگاه های متصل از جمله تلویزیون اپل, تلویزیون اندیشه, تلویزیون آتش, ایکس باکس یکی و Roku. بعلاوه, fights are also available on FOX Sports on SiriusXM channel 83 در رادیوهای ماهواره ای و در برنامه SiriusXM به.
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