開演時間® To Present Seven World Championship Fights Across Seven Live Telecasts In Eight Weeks
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紐約 (四月 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 住在Showtime. The stacked lineup includes seven world championship fights across eight live boxing telecasts over an eight-week span.
上 星期六, 四月 29, Anthony Joshua 將面臨 弗拉基米爾克里琴科 in the most significant heavyweight world championship fight in more than a decade. The event will air live on SHOWTIME 在 4:15 P.M. AND/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 阿多尼斯史蒂文森 和 安傑伊Fonfara 上 星期六, 六月 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: 其他葉貝 VS. 肖恩·波特 (四月 22) 和 凱爾布魯克 VS. 埃羅爾·斯彭斯JR. (五月 27). Both events are presented in association with Premier Boxing Champions. 該 四月 22 Berto vs. Porter event will feature an anticipated 154-pound world title fight between Jermell夏洛茨維爾 和 Charles Hatley as well asworld champion 阿曼達·塞拉諾 attempting to become the first woman—and first fighter of Puerto Rican decent—to win a world title in five different weight classes.
上 星期六, 五月 20, SHOWTIME will present a unique twin-bill of world championship fights. 第一, boxing’s hottest young star, newly minted world champion Gervonta戴維斯, will make his first world title defense against Liam Walsh 從倫敦. 那天晚上, featherweight world champion 加里·拉塞爾JR. 和前世界冠軍 安德烈Dirrell will be featured in separate bouts. Start times for both live telecasts are to be determined.
在所有, SHOWTIME Sports will present one live SHOWTIME BOXING INTERNATIONAL telecast, one live 的ShoBox: 新一代 電視節目, and five SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecasts, all free to network subscribers. 更多, SHOWTIME is in the early stages of planning for the return of four-division world champion 阿德里安Broner and undefeated star 米奇·加西亞 in separate events this summer.
The spring lineup complements the network’s robust 2017 boxing schedule. 在第一 10 weeks of the year, SHOWTIME Sports presented eight world championship fights, including two world title unification bouts (Jack vs. DeGale and Thurman vs. 加西亞, SHOWTIME Boxing on CBS), two world title rematches (弗蘭普頓vs. Santa Cruz II and Linares vs. Crolla II), the live-stream of the first-ever boxing event on Twitter (Broner VS. 格拉納多斯), the resurgence of women’s boxing (Serrano vs. 里瓦斯) and the first women’s boxing main event in premium television history (盾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,“斯蒂芬·埃斯皮諾薩說, 執行副總裁 & 總經理, SHOWTIME體育.
“Our 2017 schedule already includes some 17 live boxing telecasts, 15 世界冠軍戰鬥, 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 個月.
星期六, 四月 22 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
總理拳擊冠軍主辦
主要事件: 其他葉貝 (31-4, 24 科斯) VS. 肖恩·波特 (26-2, 16 科斯) – WBC Welterweight World Title Eliminator
共同特徵: Jermell夏洛茨維爾 (28-0, 13 科斯) VS. Charles Hatley (26-1-1, 18 科斯) – WBC Super Welterweight World Championship
SHOX: 阿曼達·塞拉諾 (31-1-1, 23 科斯) VS. Dahiana Santana (35-8, 14 KO的) – 10-Rd. WBO Bantamweight World Championship
Start Time: 9:30 P.M. AND / 6:30 P.M. PT (SHO Boxing on SHO EXTREME, 7:30p ET/PT)
地點: 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 個月.
- Charlo-Hatley is the eighth world title/title eliminator in the 154-pound division on SHOWTIME/CBS in the last 13 個月
- Serrano attempts to become the first woman to win world titles in five different weight classes
星期六, 四月 29 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
主要事件: Anthony Joshua (18-0, 18 科斯) VS. 弗拉基米爾克里琴科 (64-4, 53 科斯) – IBF and vacant (超級) WBA Heavyweight World Championship
Start Time: 4:15 P.M. AND/1:15 P.M. PT, 住在Showtime
地點: Wembley Stadium, 倫敦
Notes: · Most significant heavyweight world title fight 在 15 歲月—since Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson in June, 2002
- Officially sold out more than 90,000 門票; set to smash the attendance record at Wembley and join the ranks of the biggest events in boxing history
星期六, 五月 20 – 欣欣拳擊INTERNATIONAL
主要事件: Gervonta戴維斯 (17-0, 16 科斯) VS. Liam Walsh (21-0, 14 科斯) – IBF Super Featherweight World Championship
Start Time: TBD, live from London
地點: Copper Box Arena in London, 英國
Notes: · Matchup of undefeated fighters. Champion vs. 別. 1-排名競爭者
- Davis is the youngest reigning American titlist and second youngest in the world (Kosei Tanaka)
星期六, 五月 20 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
主要事件: 加里·拉塞爾JR. (21-1, 16 科斯) VS. 奧斯卡埃斯坎東 (25-2, 17 科斯) – WBC Featherweight World Championship
Co-Features: 安德烈Dirrell (25-2, 16 科斯) VS. José Uzcátegui (26-1, 22 科斯) – IBF Super Middleweight Interim World Championship
Rances繆 (25-0, 13 科斯) VS. Kiryl Relikh (21-1, 19 科斯) – WBA Super Lightweight Eliminator
Start Time: TBD
地點: 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
星期六, 五月 27 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
主要事件: 凱爾布魯克 (36-1, 25 科斯) VS. 埃羅爾·斯彭斯JR. (21-0, 19 科斯) – IBF Welterweight World Championship
Start Time: TBD, live from England
地點: Bramall Lane Football Ground in Sheffield, 英國
Notes: · World Champion vs. 國際羽聯沒有. 1-排名競爭者
- 別. 3-ranked vs. 別. 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
星期六, 六月 3 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
總理拳擊冠軍主辦
主要事件: 阿多尼斯史蒂文森 (28-1, 23 科斯) VS. 安傑伊Fonfara (29-4, 17 科斯) II – WBC Light Heavyweight World Championship
Co-Main: Eleider阿爾瓦雷斯 (22-0, 11 科斯) VS. 讓·帕斯卡爾 (31-4-1, 18 科斯) – 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
星期五, 六月 9 - 的ShoBox: 新一代 (Hall of Fame Induction Weekend)
主要事件: Joel Diaz Jr. (23-0, 19 科斯) VS. 阿貝爾·拉莫斯 (17-2-2, 12 科斯) - 10 輪超輕量級回合
Start Time: 10 P.M. AND/PT
地點: Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, 紐約州.
Notes: · International Boxing Hall of Fame Induction Weekend
- The lead announce team for 的ShoBox, legendary sportscaster Barry Tompkins and boxing historian Steve Farhood, to be inducted to the Hall in nearby Canastota, 紐約.
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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