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NEW YORK (April 17, 2017) – SHOWTIME Sports has unveiled the network’s complete spring 2017 boxing schedule following today’s earlier announcement that the heavyweight boxing event of the year will be televised phela ka ho Showtime. The stacked lineup includes seven world championship fights across eight live boxing telecasts over an eight-week span.

 

Ka Moqebelo, April 29, Anthony Joshua tla tobana le Wladimir Klitschko in the most significant heavyweight world championship fight in more than a decade. The event will air live on SHOWTIME ka 4:15 p.m. LE/1:15 p.m. PT from a sold-out Wembley Stadium, where a record crowd of more than 90,000 spectators is expected.

 

Also announced today, SHOWTIME and Premier Boxing Champions will present the rematch between WBC Light Heavyweight Champion Adonis Stevenson le Andrzej Fonfara ka Moqebelo, June 3. This bout is an encore of a 2014 action-packed fight in which Stevenson edged Fonfara to defend his 175-pound crown.

 

The SHOWTIME boxing lineup also includes two significant welterweight bouts with world title implications: Tse ling tse Berto vs.. Shawn Porter (April 22) le Kell Brook vs.. Errol Spence Refresh. (Ka 27). Both events are presented in association with Premier Boxing Champions. The April 22 Berto vs. Porter event will feature an anticipated 154-pound world title fight between Jermell Charlo le Charles Hatley as well asworld champion Amanda Serrano attempting to become the first woman—and first fighter of Puerto Rican decent—to win a world title in five different weight classes.

 

Ka Moqebelo, Ka 20, SHOWTIME will present a unique twin-bill of world championship fights. Pele, boxing’s hottest young star, newly minted world champion Gervonta Davis, will make his first world title defense against Liam Walsh London. Hamorao mantsiboeeng ao, featherweight world champion Gary Russell Refresh. le pele e neng e lefatše 'mampoli Andre Dirrell will be featured in separate bouts. Start times for both live telecasts are to be determined.

 

Tsohle, SHOWTIME Sports will present one live SHOWTIME BOXING INTERNATIONAL telecast, one live ShoBox: The New isa molokong o mong telecast, and five SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecasts, all free to network subscribers. Hape, SHOWTIME is in the early stages of planning for the return of four-division world champion Adrien Broner and undefeated star Mikey Garcia in separate events this summer.

 

The spring lineup complements the network’s robust 2017 boxing schedule. In the first 10 weeks of the year, SHOWTIME Sports presented eight world championship fights, including two world title unification bouts (Jack vs. DeGale and Thurman vs. Garcia, SHOWTIME Boxing on CBS), two world title rematches (Frampton vs. Santa Cruz II and Linares vs. Crolla II), the live-stream of the first-ever boxing event on Twitter (Broner vs.. Granados), the resurgence of women’s boxing (Serrano vs. Rivas) and the first women’s boxing main event in premium television history (Shields vs. Szabados).

 

“SHOWTIME continues its unrivaled commitment to the sport. There simply is no other network in boxing delivering world-class events on a consistent basis,"A re Stephen Espinoza, Phethahatso Motlatsi Mopresidente & Mookameli Ea Ka Sehlohong, Showtime Sports.

 

“Our 2017 schedule already includes some 17 live boxing telecasts, 15 world championship fights, with the top-rated fighters squaring off in boxing’s deepest weight divisions. We continue to break the glass ceiling on women’s boxing, deliver the biggest bouts from overseas and see champions take on champions to unify divisions. We are proud to be re-shaping the boxing landscape both in and out of the ring.”

 

See below for the SHOWTIME boxing spring calendar. This is the network’s third major boxing schedule announcement of the past 13 dikgwedi tse.

 

Moqebelo, April 22 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING

Hlahiswa ke Premier Boxing Champions

Main Event: Tse ling tse Berto (31-4, 24 Kos) vs.. Shawn Porter (26-2, 16 Kos) – WBC Welterweight World Title Eliminator

Co-Feature: Jermell Charlo (28-0, 13 Kos) vs.. Charles Hatley (26-1-1, 18 Kos) – WBC Super Welterweight World Championship

SHOX: Amanda Serrano (31-1-1, 23 Kos) vs.. Dahiana Santana (35-8, 14 KO oa) – 10-Rd. WBO Bantamweight World Championship

Start Time: 9:30 p.m. LE / 6:30 p.m. PT (SHO Boxing on SHO EXTREME, 7:30p ET/PT)

Lefelo la: Brooklyn’s Barclays Center

Notes: · The winner of Berto-Porter becomes the WBC mandatory challenger to Unified World Champion Keith Thurman.

• Berto-Porter is the fourth welterweight world title/title eliminator fight televised on SHOWTIME/CBS in the last 10 dikgwedi tse.
• Charlo-Hatley is the eighth world title/title eliminator in the 154-pound division on SHOWTIME/CBS in the last 13 dikgwedi tse
• Serrano attempts to become the first woman to win world titles in five different weight classes

 

 

Moqebelo, April 29 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING

Main Event: Anthony Joshua (18-0, 18 Kos) vs.. Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 Kos) – IBF and vacant (Super) WBA Heavyweight World Championship

Start Time: 4:15 p.m. LE/1:15 p.m. PT, phela ka ho Showtime

Lefelo la: Wembley Stadium, London

Notes: · Most significant heavyweight world title fight a 15 lilemo tse—since Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson in June, 2002

• Officially sold out more than 90,000 letenky; set to smash the attendance record at Wembley and join the ranks of the biggest events in boxing history

 

 

Moqebelo, Ka 20 – Showtime Boxing INTERNATIONAL

Main Event: Gervonta Davis (17-0, 16 Kos) vs.. Liam Walsh (21-0, 14 Kos) – IBF Super Featherweight World Championship

Start Time: TBD, live from London

Lefelo la: Copper Box Arena in London, Engelane

Notes: · Matchup of undefeated fighters. Champion vs. Se Ke Oa. 1-Thailand Ranked contender

• Davis is the youngest reigning American titlist and second youngest in the world (Kosei Tanaka)

Moqebelo, Ka 20 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING

Main Event: Gary Russell Refresh. (21-1, 16 Kos) vs.. Oscar Escandon (25-2, 17 Kos) – WBC Featherweight World Championship

Co-Features: Andre Dirrell (25-2, 16 Kos) vs.. José Uzcátegui (26-1, 22 Kos) – IBF Super Middleweight Interim World Championship

Rances Barthelemy (25-0, 13 Kos) vs.. Kiryl Relikh (21-1, 19 Kos) – WBA Super Lightweight Eliminator

Start Time: TBD

Lefelo la: MGM National Harbor in Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area

Notes: · Sixth featherweight title fight on SHOWTIME since Feb. 2016, and second this year.

• The winner of Dirrell-Uzcátegui becomes the mandatory for IBF Super Middleweight World Champion James DeGale
• The winner of Barthelemy-Relikh becomes the mandatory challenger to WBA Super Lightweight Champion Ricky Burns

 

Moqebelo, Ka 27 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING

Main Event: Kell Brook (36-1, 25 Kos) vs.. Errol Spence Refresh. (21-0, 19 Kos) – IBF Welterweight World Championship

Start Time: TBD, live from England

Lefelo la: Bramall Lane Football Ground in Sheffield, Engelane

Notes: · World Champion vs. IBF Ha ho. 1-Thailand Ranked contender

• Se Ke Oa. 3-ranked vs. Se Ke Oa. 5-ranked welterweights (via Transnational Boxing Rankings)
• Six of the consensus top-10 welterweights in the world featured on SHOWTIME/CBS events in the first half of 2017

Moqebelo, June 3 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING

Hlahiswa ke Premier Boxing Champions

Main Event: Adonis Stevenson (28-1, 23 Kos) vs.. Andrzej Fonfara (29-4, 17 Kos) II – WBC Light Heavyweight World Championship

Co-Main: Eleider Álvarez (22-0, 11 Kos) vs.. Jean Pascal (31-4-1, 18 Kos) – WBC Silver Light Heavyweight Title

Start Time: TBD

Notes: · Stevenson-Fonfara II is a rematch of 2014 all-action championship bout in which both fighters scored knock downs

 

 

Labohlano, June 9 - ShoBox: The New isa molokong o mong (Hall of Fame Induction Weekend)

Main Event: Joel Diaz Jr. (23-0, 19 Kos) vs.. Abele Ramos (17-2-2, 12 Kos) - 10 Round Super bobebe bout

Start Time: 10 p.m. LE/PT

Lefelo la: Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, N.Y..

Notes: · International Boxing Hall of Fame Induction Weekend

• The lead announce team for ShoBox, legendary sportscaster Barry Tompkins and boxing historian Steve Farhood, to be inducted to the Hall in nearby Canastota, NY.

 

 

Expected This Summer

Four-division world champion Adrien Broner and WBC Lightweight World Champion Mikey Garcia in separate events live on SHOWTIME.

 

 

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