ShoBox: La Nova Generacio: Vendredo, Julio 17 #?E 10 P.M. ETa/PT
Premier Boxing Champions on CBS: Sabato, Julio 18 #?E 4 P.M. ET/1P.M. PT
SHOWTIME #?AMPIONECO BOKSO?: Sabato, Julio 18 #?E 10 P.M. ET/7 P.M. PT
NOV-JORKO (Julio 13, 2015) ? SHOWTIME Sportoj? Kaj CBSaj Sportoj will offer an action-packed weekend of fights spanning three different boxing series beginning with ShoBox: La Nova Generacio Sur Vendredo, Julio 17, and concluding with a special afternoon-evening PBC sur CBS doubleheader and SHOWTIME #?AMPIONECO BOKSO tripleheader from the same venue on Sabato, Julio 18.
The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast will air live on SHOWTIME? #?E 10 P.M. ET/7 P.M. PT De la Don Haskins Arena at the University of Texas El Paso and the PBC on CBS broadcast will originate just hours earlier from the same arena, Vivi sur CBS Sports at 4 P.M. ET/1 P.M. PT.
ShoBox: La Nova Generacio will kick-off the weekend action Vendrede Vivi sur SHOWTIME at 10 P.M. ETa/PT (Prokrastita sur la Okcidenta Marbordo) De Sands Casino Hotel En Bethlehem, Pa., as the prospect-oriented developmental series celebrates its 14Th anniversary with a quadrupleheader featuring six undefeated prospects squaring off.
“SHOWTIME Sports and CBS Sports are excited to offer fans an unprecedented weekend of boxing featuring at least nine fights, including two world championships and a world title eliminator,” Diris Stephen Espinoza, administra Vicprezidanto kaj Ĝenerala Manaĝero, SHOWTIME Sportoj. “From boxing’s biggest stars on our SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING franchise and undefeated prospects on our critically acclaimed ShoBox Serioj, to working with our colleagues at PBC and CBS Sports, we are the destination for fight fans this weekend.”
In the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING main event, Meksika superstelo Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (48-2-1, 32 KOs) will aim for redemption as he returns to the ring with a new trainer in a lower weight class. The former middleweight champion will take on fellow Mexican brawler Marcos Reyes (33-2, 24 KOs) in his first fight with renowned trainer Robert Garcia in a 10-round super middleweight bout.
Also on SHOWTIME, a pair of top bantamweights will put their undefeated records on the line as Puerto Rican Olympian McJoe Arroyo (16-0, 8 KOs) Prenas sur Arthur Villanueva (27-0, 14 KOs) for the vacant IBF Bantamweight World Championship. In the opener of the tripleheader, undefeated 140-pound contender Amir Imam (17-0, 14 KOs) will take on veteran Ferdinando Angulo (29-9, 16 KOs) in a 10-round eliminator to become the No. 1 mandatory challenger in the WBC.
PBC on CBS will take center stage earlier that afternoon with an action-packed doubleheader. In the 12-round main event, Irish champion Carl Frampton (20-0, 14 KOs) will defend his Junior Featherweight World Championship against Mexican contender Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. (25-1-2, 15 KOs). In the PBC on CBS co-main event, heavyweight contender Chris Arreola (36-4, 31 KOs) will take on Frederic Kassi (18-3, 10 KOs) in a 8/10-round bout.
ShoBox: La Nova Generacio will kick-off the weekend on Friday with a quintessential ShoBoxcard matching well-regarded prospects in some of the toughest tests of their careers.
En la #?efa evento, Antoine Douglas (17-0-1, 10 KOs) Alfrontos Istvan Szili (18-0-2, 8 KOs) in a 10-round middleweight bout, while a pair of undefeated prospects, Derrick Webster (19-0, 10 KOs) Kaj Arif Magomedov (15-0, 9 KOs), square off in the 10-round super middleweight co-feature.
Also on the ShoBox televidoprogramo, Adam Lopez (12-0, 6 KOs) will meet fellow undefeated prospect Eliecer Aquino (17-0-1, 11 KOs) in a 10-round super bantamweight bout and once-beaten prospect Jerry Odom (13-1, 12 KOs, 1 NC) will face Samuel Clarkson (14-3, 8 KOs) in an eight-round super middleweight matchup.
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