TWO WORLD TITLE UNIFICATIONS, SEVEN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOUTS AND THREE WORLD TITLE ELIMINATORS ACROSS FIVE MONTHS
Star-Studded Lineup Is Highlighted by Errol Spence Jr., Gervonta Davis, Jermell Charlo, David Benavidez and Jermall Charlo
NUEVA YORK - Marzo 15, 2022 - SHOWTIME Sports and Premier Boxing Champions today announced nine boxing events across the first half of 2022 featuring some of the sport’s most accomplished and dynamic stars in highly competitive matchups. The lineup pits champions against champions and top contenders against top contenders to form the strongest and most ambitious schedule in the industry. The robust lineup includes:
- Nine marquee events across five months featuring 21 boxeadores invictos;
- Two world championship unifications bouts, one for all four world title belts and the coveted title of Undisputed Champion, and one for three world title belts;
- Seven world championship matches with at least 13 world title belts at stake and three world title eliminators;
- All of the top-six ranked super welterweights fighting in a seven-week span;
- Several pivotal crossroads fights from super bantamweight to super middleweight with an average of two events per month through July.
The massive schedule features the sport’s biggest stars: Errol Spence, Jr., Gervonta “Tanque” Davis, Jermell Charlo, David Benavidezy Jermall Charlo. There are also 18 fighters aged 27 years and younger including unified world championStephen Fulton, Jr., and highly regarded, invicto contendiente de peso welterJaron "Boots" Ennis. With this emphasis on youth and kingmaking, SHOWTIME Sports and Premier Boxing Champions are well positioned to carry the sport into the future. Led byStephen Espinoza, Presidente, Deportes & Programación de eventos, Showtime Networks Inc., and four-time Emmy® Award-winning executive producerDavid Dinkins, Jr., who guides an all-star cast of commentators and production aces, TIEMPO DE LA FUNCION® remains the most tenured and trusted platform in boxing. Arguably the best active welterweight of this era, the undefeated Spence, already a unified champ, will seek to collect a third world title when he puts his WBC and IBF straps on the line against WBA World ChampionYordenis Ugas enSábado,Abril 16 in the main event on SHOWTIME PPV® en AT&Estadio T, home of the Dallas Cowboys. Spence-Ugas is only the 12º unification match in the history of the welterweight division, joining classic matchups such as"Sugar" Ray Leonard vs.Thomas HearnsYo yFloyd Mayweather vs.Manny Pacquiao. The match is rich with intrigue as Spence attempts to claim supremacy in one of boxing’s deepest divisions, while Ugas, who nearly quit the sport, aims to complete a stunning turnaround after beating eight-division world champion Pacquiao in August. Boxing superstar and five-time, en tres divisiones campeón del mundoTanqueDavis will headline his fourth straight SHOWTIME PPV event against nemesisRolando Romero enSábado, Mayo 28, Barclays Center en Brooklyn, Nueva York, for Davis’ WBA Lightweight World Title. The bout comes on the heels of Davis’ hard-fought 12-round unanimous decision win overIsaac “Pitbull” Cruz in which Davis overcame an injury in front of a star-studded, sellout crowd in Los Angeles last December. WBO 154-pound No. 1-clasificado contendientetim tszyu, the son of Hall of FamerKostya Tszyu, who fought many of his most memorable bouts on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING, hará su U.S. debutSábado, March 26contra 2012 U.S. Olympian and top contenderTerrell Gaushaat The Armory in Minneapolis. The streaking southpawsErickson Lubin ySebastián Fundora will engage in a Super Welterweight Title Eliminator, for the WBC interim title, in the second of back-to-back, intriguing crossroads matchups in the division onSábado, Abril 9 from Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas. Jermell Charlo y Brian Castaño once again will seek to become the first undisputed 154-pound champion in the four-belt era and just the third overall undisputed champion today when they meet in a rematch of their 2021 classic onSábado, Mayo 14 in Los Angeles. Más, rising welterweight starEnnis, posiblemente the most talented boxer yet to win a world title, returns as the co-feature againstCustio Claytonin an IBF Welterweight Title Eliminator. Former two-time world championBenavidez regresa a la acción enSábado,May 21against knockout artistDavid Lemieux en 168 pounds in Phoenix, Ariz., in a bout between two of the sport’s biggest punchers. Fulton, in his first bout since his title unification win in the 122-pound division againstBrandon Figueroa, will defend his titles onSábado, Junio 4 in Minneapolis, against former unified world championDanny Roman in another can’t miss matchup. Jermall Charlo will defend his WBC Middleweight World Championship for the fifth time onSábado, Junio 18, when he faces former world title challenger, Sin CMB. 6-clasificadoMaciej Sulecki on the Juneteenth holiday weekend in Houston. OnSábado, Julio 9, en San Antonio, Texas, newly minted WBC Featherweight World ChampionCITAS DE LA CONFERENCIA DE PRENSA VIRTUAL DE MARK MAGSAYO will make his first title defense since dethroningGary Russell Jr.., on SHOWTIME against unbeaten mandatory challenger and former super bantamweight titleholderRey Vargas.
Additional high-stakes matches will be announced as individual fight cards fill out. “It’s a good time to be a boxing fan and SHOWTIME viewer with so many high-level, consequential matchups on our schedule,", DijoEspinoza, Presidente, Deportes & Programación de eventos, Showtime Networks Inc. “We continue to grow the sport at every level, from our grassroots seriesSHOBOXto crowning unified and undisputed champions across boxing’s deepest divisions. When you consider the competitive nature of these fights, the star power of fighters like Errol Spence, Jr., ‘Tank’ Davis, David Benavidez, the Charlo brothers—and the youthful vitality of Stephen Fulton, Jr., Jaron Ennis and Brandun Lee—it’s never been clearer that SHOWTIME is the destination for the most compelling fights and will be for years to come. This SHOWTIME Boxing lineup is hands down the most potent of any network or platform in 2022.” The SHOWTIME Sports boxing schedule features seven editions of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® and two significant SHOWTIME PPV events, todo presentado por Premier Boxing Champions: ·Marzo 26 - SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXINGThe Armory, Minneapolis, Desde.
o Tim Tszyu vs. Terrell Gausha, Super Welterweight Bouto Michel Rivera vs. José Adorno, Lightweight Bouto Elvis Rodriguez vs. Juan Jose Velasco, Superligero (142 LBS) Bout ·Abril 9 - SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING__The Theatre at Virgin Hotels, Las Vegas
o Erickson Lubin vs. Sebastián Fundora, WBC Super Welterweight Interim Titleo Tony Harrison vs. Sergio García, Super Welterweight Bouto Kevin Salgado vs. Bryant Perrella, Super Welterweight Bout ·Abril 16 - SHOWTIME PPV__AT&Estadio T, Arlington, Texas
o Errol Spence Jr. vs. Yordenis Ugas, CMB, AMB & IBF Welterweight World __Championship Unification
SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING (preceding PPV):o Radzhab Butaev vs. Eimantas Stanionis, WBA Welterweight Title Bouto Brandun Lee vs. Zachary Ochoa, Superligero Bout ·Mayo 14 - SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING__Los Angeleso Jermell Charlo vs. Brian Castaño II, FIB indiscutible, AMB, CMB & WBO Super __Welterweight World Championship Unificationo Jaron Ennis vs. Custio Clayton, IBF Welterweight Eliminator ·Mayo 21 - SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING__Fénix
o David Benavidez vs. David Lemieux, Super Middleweight Bouto Yoelvis Gomez vs. Jorge Cota, Super Welterweight Bout ·Mayo 28 - SHOWTIME PPV__Barclays Center, Brooklyn, Nueva York
o Gervonta Davis vs. Rolando Romero, WBA Lightweight World Championship ·Junio 4 - SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING__Minneapolis
o Stephen Fulton, Jr. vs. Danny Roman, OMB & WBC Super Bantamweight World Championshipo David Morrell vs. kalvin Henderson, WBA Super Middleweight World Title ·Junio 18 - SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING__Houston
o Jermall Charlo vs. Maciej Sulecki, WBC Middleweight World Championship ·Julio 9 - SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING__San Antonio
o Mark Magsayo vs. Rey Vargas, WBC Featherweight World Championship\
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