New Agreement Extends Long-Standing Partnership And Ensures Network Will Continue To Deliver The Industry’s Most Significant Events
2018 SHOWTIME Boxing Upfront, 一月 2018 在纽约; Courtesy Amanda Westcott/SHOWTIME
纽约 日 - 8月 30, 2018 – SHOWTIME Sports and Premier Boxing Champions have entered into a three-year boxing programming agreement extending their long-term partnership. The deal calls for a monthly series of events presented by Premier Boxing Champions to air live on SHOWTIME, ensuring the network’s access to the deepest talent pool in boxing and its continued ability to deliver the industry’s leading programming. The agreement also calls for Premier Boxing Champions to deliver content for a significant expansion of live boxing programming from SHOWTIME Sports coming in 2019. 斯蒂芬·埃斯皮诺萨 (Stephen Espinoza) 今天宣布了这一消息, 总统, Sports and Event Programming for Showtime Networks Inc.
总理拳击冠军, a live boxing series created by Haymon Sports, LLC, features more than 160 来自世界各地的拳击手. 公司成立于 2014, Premier Boxing Champions boasts the largest collection of world champions from bantamweight to heavyweight, 14 in total and far more than any other entity in the sport.
SHOWTIME and Premier Boxing Champions have collaborated to set the standard for live boxing where the brightest stars in the sport compete in the most compelling and competitive matchups on a consistent basis.
“Over the past seven-plus years, SHOWTIME has developed the most comprehensive slate of boxing programming in the world,”埃斯皮诺萨说. “We have consistently been recognized for making the most significant contributions to the sport of boxing, both financially and editorially. Building off our industry-leading live event schedule, this long-term deal with Premier Boxing Champions ensures that SHOWTIME will remain the No. 1 destination for the world’s greatest fighters and their passionate and diverse fans.”
“Premier Boxing Champions is pleased to extend our relationship with SHOWTIME and continue our commitment to providing the best boxing events with the biggest stars across the most popular divisions in the sport,’’ said Tim Smith, Vice President of Communications for Haymon Boxing.
在 2018, SHOWTIME is delivering more live boxing than any other network—more than 30 presentations in total by the end of this year. 在 2019, anchored largely by Premier Boxing Champions’ events and including content providers from around the world, SHOWTIME will present an even larger schedule with live boxing from virtually every level of the sport—prospects and contenders, to world championship bouts, world title unifications and pay-per-view tent pole attractions.
此外, SHOWTIME Sports will continue to grow its burgeoning slate of shoulder programming in support of the sport and its athletes including the three-time Sports Emmy Award winning series ALL ACCESS, the cutting-edge talk show BELOW THE BELT WITH BRENDAN SCHAUB, and digital-only series such as SHO REPORT, FIGHT NIGHT and RING RESUME.
By the end of 2018, SHOWTIME will have presented more than 26-world championship fights this year, including four world title unification bouts and 10 bouts pitting top-five rated opponents from around the world. 在所有, SHOWTIME will have delivered more than 70 live bouts spanning 的ShoBox: 新一代, 欣欣拳击: 特别版本, SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING COUNTDOWN, 欣欣拳击INTERNATIONAL, SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING and SHOWTIME PPV.
该 2018 lineup, hailed as the strongest in boxing, was revealed in January at the inaugural SHOWTIME BOXING UPFRONT, an event that established a top-flight boxing season and a level of organization never before seen in the sport. Planning for the 2019 SHOWTIME boxing schedule is underway, and the first slate of main event matchups will be revealed in January.
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