NEW YORK – January 24, 2018 – Kua kauwhautia SHOWTIME Sports ko Pirimia Mekemeke Champions te lineup pouaka whakaata mō te SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING^® for the first half of the year. Airing 10 takahanga mekemeke ora ao-te piha haapiiraa – ngā 12 toa ao me 12 taitara ao whawhai – PBC ko SHOWTIME e te haamauraa i te paerewa ahumahi mo te wa mekemeke runga whati-me te taumata o te whakahaere e kore kitea i mua i roto i te hākinakina.

The schedule features more than two dozen elite fighters competing in boxing’s deepest and most talent-laden weight divisions and boasts the largest collection of stars in the sport today. Ko te ūkui tuku whitu matchups o whawhai runga 10-runga, wha matchups o runga-rima whawhai runga, wha runga-10 pauna-no te-pauna tauanga toa ao, me te kotahi ao a'ee taitara whakakotahitanga.

Arahina e SHOWTIME me PBC, mekemeke ite te anō i roto i 2017 ki toa o te ao whakapumautia Mikey Garcia, Keith Thurman, Danny Garcia, Deontay Wilder, Leo Santa Cruz ko Anthony Hohua, taha pihi whetu Gervonta Davis, Errol Spence Jr., Jermell ko Jermall Charlo ko Rawiri Benavidez. I roto i te 2018, Kei te tango katoa wā pokapū i roto i te ara o te faatuhaaraa e Floyd Mayweather, Wladimir Klitschko, Miguel cotto me ētahi atu.

“Kua hāngai pono nga whetu, a ka whakaturia kotahi ano SHOWTIME ko PBC te tere mo te tau te rohe i roto i te mekemeke,” Na ka mea a Stephen Espinoza, Peresideni, Sports & Papatonotanga takahanga, Showtime Networks Inc. “Ki te haere tonu ki te torohaki pai, to tatou whāinga ko ki te whakaora i te whawhai pai rawa i runga i te kaupapa ōrite ki te minenga taea aano. This lineup delivers pivotal bouts with frequency and purpose – noa katoa ki to tatou kaiohauru. Ko tawhiti a atu te SHOWTIME No. 1 ūnga mō pā mekemeke motu.”

Te 27 hipoki whawhai i roto i tenei lineup ahumahi-ārahi ake 731 te whakauru ia tapeke, 106 world title victories and a staggering win percentage of .957. Fourteen of the fighters are undefeated and all but four have earned at least one world championship. Also included in this lineup are four of the consensus top-10 ranked welterweights, e rua o te whakaaro runga-rima runga featherweights, a toru te whakaaro runga-rima whawhai i roto i te wehenga 154-pauna o.

Tags ora puta noa i tüäpapa SHOWTIME katoa te ūkui tonu o ngā kaupapa mekemeke – pouaka whakaata, pūkoro me te ratonga roma ipurangi o te whatunga.

I roto i te 2017, tukua SHOWTIME Sports hōtaka tino nui, me te rite o te ahumahi – 25 nights of live boxing featuring 33 whawhai taitara ao me te neke atu i te 70 bouts in all. Kotahi ano, ka fehangahangai nga whetu kānapanapa atu rite te whatunga he hakari te hōtaka tino whānui, me te mālohi i roto i te mekemeke, whakaaturia ana i raro:

Jan 20 SPENCE vs. PETERSON Brooklyn

IBF Welterweight World Championship

EASTER JR. vs. Fortuna

IBF Lightweight World Championship

Feb 17 GARCIA vs. RIOS Las Vegas

WBC Welterweight Taitara Eliminator

Benavidez vs. Gabriel II

WBC Super whitu World Championship

Moana 3 Wilder vs. Ortiz Brooklyn

WBC Heavyweight World Championship

CHARLO vs. Bevan JR.

WBC takitaro whitu Championship

Moana 10 GARCIA vs. LIPINETS San Antonio

IBF Junior Welterweight World Championship

Barthelemy vs. RELIKH II

WBA Super Kōmāmā World Championship

April 7 LARA vs. HURD

154-Pauna World Championship whakakotahitanga

April 21 BRONER vs. FIGUEROA

WBC Super Kōmāmā Taitara Eliminator

GERVONTA Davis

Kia 19 KEITH Thurman Brooklyn

WBA / WBC Welterweight World Championship

Kia 19 STEVENSON vs. JACK Canada

WBC Light Heavyweight World Championship

Pipiri 9 SANTA CRUZ vs. MARES II Los Angeles

WBA mā whitu World Championship

JERMELL Charlo

WBC Super Welterweight World Championship

Pipiri 16 Errol Spence JR. Dallas

IBF Welterweight World Championship

Ko tētahi o te nuinga tino i titiro toa taitama o mekemeke, hinga kore IBF Welterweight World Champion Errol Spence Jr. (22-0, 19 Koó) whana atu te hōtaka ki te TKO tuawaru-a tawhio o toa ao e rua-wehenga o mua, me te runga-10 runga WelterweightLamont Peterson (35-3-1, 17 Koó) in Spence first title defense. I roto i te tahi-āhuatanga, tūturu IBF Kōmāmā World Champion Robert Aranga Jr. (20-0, 14 Koó) riro i te tata, wikitoria ritua-whakatau i runga i te toa o mua ao Javier Fortuna (33-1-1, 23 Koó) i roto i te whawhai mahi-Kikī.

toa e rua-wehenga te ao Danny Garcia (33-1, 19 Koó) returns to the ring to begin his quest toward another welterweight world championship. Garcia’s long reigns at 140 a 147 pounds ended last March in a close decision loss to unified champion Keith Thurman. Na, ka wero Garcia uaua toa mua ao Brandon Rios (34-3-1, 25 Koó), he toa katoa-mahi e kua whawhai te pai i roto i te hākinakina. I roto i te hui tahi-matua, toa whakaotinga o te mekemeke te ao, 21-tau-tau Rawiri Benavidez (19-0, 17 Koó), Ka meinga e tona korero taitara tuatahi i roto i te rematch ki runga nguha Ronald Gavril (18-2, 14 Koó). whawhai nga Middleweights super te whawhai oaoa whakamutunga Mahuru i mutu i roto i te whakatau i tautohetia mo Benavidez.

tonu te whakaoranga o te wehenga taumahamaha taitara ao. a Amerika tūturu, Kaua e. 1 taumahamaha, WBC World Champion Deontay Wilder (39-0, 38 Koó),Ka fehangahangai hoa kaiwero hinga kore Luis Ortiz (28-0, 24 Koó) i roto i te matchup âwhina o whakaaro runga-5 runga heavyweights. puritia Wilder kua te whitiki matomato hiahiatia mai January 2015 a hanga ono parepare taitara angitu. Na, Wilder anga te pugilist Cuban tino mohio ki te mana pahaki nui i roto i Ortiz. Ka ngā te hui tahi-matua te toa Welterweight super mua, me te runga nguha whitu Jermall Charlo (26-0, 20 Koó) tango i runga i nguha-mea patu kotahi Hugo Bevan Jr. (26-1, 14 Koó)mo te takitaro WBC whitu World Championship.

Ko tētahi o te runga whawhai pauna-no te-pauna i roto i te mekemeke, Mikey Garcia (37-0, 30 Koó) ka ngana ki te hanga hītori mā te hopu i te taitara te ao i roto i te piha haapiiraa taimaha te wha. E tu ana i roto i tona ara he hinga kore mana-puncher me IBF Jr. Welterweight Champion Sergey Lipinets (13-0, 10 Koó), e te hanga tona korero taitara tuatahi. ka kia e rua ngā taitara 140-pauna i runga i te raina rite toa e rua-wehenga Rances Barthelemy (26-0, 13 Koó)titiro ki te riro i te kaimekemeke Cuban tuatahi ki te riro ake taitara ao i roto i akomanga taimaha rerekē e toru ka anga ia Kirly Relikh (21-2, 9 Koó) i roto i te rematch o ratou a'ee Haratua tautohetia, tenei wa mo te wātea te taitara WBA Super Kōmāmā.

WBA World Champion Erislandy Lara (25-2-2, 14 Koó) and IBF World Champion Jarrett Hurd (21-0, 15 Koó) ka tutaki ki te whakakotahi taitara he taime faufaa i roto i mo te wehenga 154-pauna. I roto i te 2017, SHOWTIME teata e waru matchups ngā katoa o te rima runga-runga toa super te Welterweight me challengers i roto i te whakataetae unofficial. Ka faatito tenei kēmu whakakotahitanga te wizardry hangarau o Lara o Cuba ki te kaha me te faaotiraa o Hurd.

toa wha-wehenga ao Adrien Broner (33-3, 24 Koó) Kua whakapumautia ia e kore e anake rite tetahi o te nui e kumea i roto i te hākinakina, engari ka rite ki te toa nei he pai ki te kanohi te whakataetae uaua tonu. E ka haere tonu, ka e ia ki runga ki tūturu toa mua ao Omar Figueroa (27-0-1, 19 Koó), he ngangau katoa-mahi e kore nei e te taahiraa whakamuri, as the former champions meet in a WBC Super Lightweight Final Eliminator. The co-main event will feature one of boxing’s brightest young stars in Gervonta Davis (19-0, 18 Koó) rite te toa o mua tūturu-tau 23-tau titiro ki faahou tona taitara.

Keith Thurman Ko anake te toa ao 147-pauna kotahi, me te whakaaro No. 1-runga toa i roto i te wehenga taimaha rongonui o te mekemeke. Ko te tūturu Thurman(28-0, 22 Koó) kua tū te taitara WBA mai 2015. kī ia te whitiki WBC ki te wini whakatakotoria ki runga i mua tūturu Danny Garcia Maehe whakamutunga i roto i te a'ee tino whanga ana o te tau, he whakaaturanga o SHOWTIME Mekemeke i runga i CBS. I muri i te whara tuke e hiahiatia pokanga, ka hoki mai Thurman ki te mahi ki te hoariri ki te kia takoto.

WBC Light Heavyweight World Champion A Tamutu Stevenson (29-1, 24 Koó) Kua piro knockouts i ono o ona parepare taitara waru a ka fehangahangai pea tona wero uaua ka pakanga ia toa e rua-wehenga Badou Jack (22-1-2, 13 Koó).riro Jack te taitara ao 175-pauna i roto i tona tuatahi marama taumahamaha i roto i August, a wakamahuetia te whitiki i roto i te tikanga ki te hanga tonu tenei matchup o heavyweights marama runga-rima runga.

I muri ratou 2015 kawea taitara pupūtanga te mano Staples Center ki ona waewae, WBA mā whitu Champion Leo Santa Cruz (34-1-1, 19 Koó) me te toa e toru-wehenga ao Apanere Merehe (31-2-1, 15 Koó) ka tutaki ano i roto i to ratou whenua ngā o Los Angeles. Santa Cruz, e kua puritia ano taitara i roto i wehenga e toru mo te ono tau kua hipa, noho tonu tetahi o nga whawhai tino āna i roto i te hākinakina i teie mahana. Mau metua vahine, he toa mua ao i whā, whā super me te mā whitu, whāinga ki te tohe utu i muri i te mate whakatau nuinga tata ki Santa Cruz i 2015. Tenei matchup nui-siteiki i waenganui i whakaaro runga-rima runga ka hoatu featherweights maramarama atu ki te wehenga tāpae e ngā Gary Russell Jr., Carl Frampton and Lee Selby. The consensus No. 1 toa i 154 pauna, Jermell Charlo (30-0, 15 Koó) ka tiakina e tona WBC Super Welterweight World Championship i roto i te tahi-āhuatanga ki te hoariri ki te kia takoto.

Hou atu i te mahi tūtahi ki te runga-10 toa Welterweight mua, pauna-hoki-pauna nui Errol Spence Jr. (23-0, 20 Koó) hoki ki tona kainga tupu o Dallas mo te korero tuarua o te IBF Welterweight World Championship.

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