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כּוֹתֶרֶת: L-R (back row): ביוט; סְנוּנִית, ג'ק, דגאל, ראסל ג 'וניור, אמהות, סלבי, Provodnikov, Quellar, Pedraza.
L-R (front row): יהושע, תורמן, ויילדר, תלבש, Povetkin.
NEW YORK (מרץ 11, 2016)ספורט -SHOWTIME ביום שישי announced seven live boxing telecasts over a 12-week span, a stacked lineup featuring nine world championship fights and 14 overall matches in boxing’s deepest and most exciting divisions.
The full slate of programming is free to SHOWTIME subscribers, and the presentation on CBS is the first Prime Time boxing event on CBS television network in decades.
סטיבן אספינוזה, סגן נשיא בכיר & General Manager of SHOWTIME Sports, also announced a summer blockbuster in the making.
“This is an incredibly exciting time in boxing, a time for emerging stars to make their mark, and for established champions to break through to the next level,” Espinoza said.
“This schedule features high level matchups with champions taking on the highest-rated contenders available, and top-ranked challengers facing one another. We are thrilled and grateful to the promoters and the fighters themselves who have worked with us these last few weeks to put together such an impressive lineup for SHOWTIME Boxing. It has to be one of the best we’ve ever assembled.
“We have seven live telecasts over a 12-week span that runs the gamut of our SHOWTIME boxing series. It includes nine world title fights, and that doesn’t count a great fight that’s just coming together today, as both Leo Santa Cruz and Carl Frampton have now agreed to a championship matchup to be scheduled for late summer.
“All of these events are free to SHOWTIME subscribers, ו יוני 25 event is the first Prime Time boxing presentation on CBS television network in decades.
“Again, thanks to the fighters and promoters for not only making these great matches a reality, but for their cooperation in today’s major announcement.”
See below for details on the events that Espinoza, and the principals involved, are in the process of finalizing. Additional details on each individual event will be announced in the coming days.
יום שבת, אפריל 9 – SHOWTIME BOXING INTERNATIONAL
אירוע מרכזי: Charles Martin (23-0-1, 21 קוס) לעומת. אנתוני יהושע (15-0, 15 קוס) – IBF Heavyweight World Title Championship
Co-feature: לי סלבי (22-1, 8 קוס) לעומת. אריק האנטר (21-3, 11 קוס) – IBF Featherweight Championship
Start Time: TBD
מקום: The O2 – London
אמרגן: לוחמי אגרוף & Matchroom ספורט
יום שישי, אפריל 15 - ShoBox: הדור החדש
אירוע מרכזי: ניקולאי פוטאפוב (14-0, 6 קוס) לעומת. Stephon צעיר (14-0-2, 6 קוס) – 10-Rd Bantamweight Bout
Start Time: 10 p.m. ו/PT
מקום: Turning Stone Casino – Verona, ניו יורק
אמרגן: מבצעי סליטה
יום שבת, אפריל 16 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
אירוע מרכזי: גארי ראסל ג'וניור. (26-1, 15 קוס) לעומת. פטריק Hyland (31-1, 15 קוס) – WBC Featherweight World Championship
Co-תכונה: ז'וזה Pedraza (21-0, 12 קוס) לעומת. Stephen Smith (23-1, 13 קוס) – IBF Super Featherweight World Championship
Start Time: 11 p.m. ו/8 p.m. PT
מקום: Fox Theatre at Foxwoods Resort Casino
אמרגן: DiBella בידור
יום שבת, אפריל 30 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
אירוע מרכזי: אדואו ג'ק (20-1-1, 12 קוס) לעומת. לוסיאן ביוט (32-3, 25 קוס) – WBC Super Middleweight Championship
Co-תכונה: ג'יימס דה גאל (22-1, 14 קוס) לעומת. Rogelio Medina (35-6, 29 קוס) – IBF Super Middleweight World Championship
Start Time: 10 p.m. ו/7 p.m. PT
מקום: TBD
אמרגן: מבצעי Mayweather
Targeting May 2016 – ההצגה מתחילה אליפות אגרוף – PENDING CONFIRMATION
אירוע מרכזי: דאונטיי ויילדר (36-0, 35 קוס) לעומת. אלכסנדר Povetkin (30-1, 22 קוס) – WBC Heavyweight World Championship
Start Time: TBD
מקום: TBD
יום שבת, יוני 11 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
אירוע מרכזי: רוסלן Provodnikov (25-4, 18 קוס) לעומת. ג'ון מולינה Jr. (28-6, 23 קוס) – 12-Rd Super Lightweight Bout
Start Time: 9 p.m. ו/6 p.m. PT
מקום: Turning Stone Casino – Verona, ניו יורק
אמרגן: מבצעים באנר
יום שבת, יוני 25 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING on CBS Presented by PBC
אירוע מרכזי: קית 'תורמן (26-0, 1 ND, 22 קוס) לעומת. שון פורטר (26-1-1, 16 קוס) – WBA Welterweight World Championship
Co-תכונה: ישו Cuellar (28-1, 21 קוס) לעומת. סוסות אבנר (29-2-1, 15 קוס) – WBA (reg.) אליפות העולם במשקל נוצה
Start Time: TBD
מקום: TBD
אמרגן: DiBella בידור
Late-Summer 2016 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
אירוע מרכזי: ליאו סנטה קרוז (32-0-1, 18 קוס) לעומת. קרל פרמפטון (22-0, 14 קוס) – WBA (super) אליפות העולם במשקל נוצה
NEW YORK (פבואר. 24, 2016)—After extensive discussions between DiBella Entertainment, Showtime Networks and Mohegan Sun, the מרץ 12 boxing event has been canceled.
Following the injury to Keith Thurman and the postponement of the Thurman vs. Porter bout, we evaluated several options for salvaging the card, but various factors, including scheduling and programming issues, prevented the parties involved from doing so.
The featherweight bout between fellow three-division world champions Abner Mares and Fernando Montiel will remain paired with the Thurman vs. Porter welterweight world championship event, which is being rescheduled for a later date on CBS. The other bouts on the card will be rescheduled on a date or dates to be announced.
“Every effort was made to move forward with the remainder of this excellent card, despite the tight time frame,” אמר לו DiBella, נשיא DiBella בידור. “עם זאת, scheduling conflicts and other factors forced us to make the unfortunate decision to cancel the entire event. There are a number of attractive fights on the table and we look forward to presenting all of them to the fans as soon as possible.”
Tickets purchased for the מרץ 12 event will be refunded at the point of purchase.
Former Champion Porter Challenges Welterweight World Champion Keith Thurman In Exciting Primetime Matchup יום שבת, מרץ 12
Live On CBS (8:30 p.m. ו/5:30 p.m. PT)
לחץ כאן For Photos From Premier Boxing Champions
לאס וגאס (פבואר 19, 2016) – Welterweight star “Showtime” Shawn Porteropened up his training camp to media יום חמישי at Porter Hy-Performance Center in Las Vegas as he prepares for his primetime showdown with welterweight world champion Keith “One Time” Thurman ב יום שבת, מרץ 12 on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING on CBS presented by Premier Boxing Champions (נכסים ובניין) from Mohegan Sun Resort in Connecticut.
פעולה טלוויזיונית מתחילה ב 8:30 p.m. ו/5:30 p.m. PT with an all-action showdown between former multiple division world champions סוסות אבנר ו פרננדו Montiel.
Porter worked out for media along with his father and trainer, Ken Porter as he looks to become a welterweight world champion for the second time. Porter defeated multiple-division champion Adrien Broner in a primetime PBC main event last year and is looking to again find success under the bright lights.
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קופה.
Here is what Porter and his father had to say יום חמישי:
שון PORTER
On training camp…
“Training camp is going great. It’s been hard work as always and nothing really different specifically for this fight. Obviously it is always a different game plan for a different fighter but that’s about it.
“I’m not making too many adjustments from my previous fight, just taking what I learn from each fight and take those learning experiences with you. Going into this fight we will definitely have some of our past experiences show up.
“It is getting closer. I feel it every day. It’s approaching and the excitement is brewing. The closer it gets the more excited and more focused that I get.
On being perceived as the underdog…
“I do not feel like I am coming in as the underdog. In order to be the champion, אתה צריך לנצח את האלופה. That is my outlook on this fight, not only to outpoint him but to make it very decisive and dominate the fight.
”My motivation is to prove the doubters wrong.
“I have faced a tougher opposition than Keith Thurman. I feel like that may work most to my advantage. I think that there will come points in this fight where I will put him up against things that he has never been up against. It is all about how he reacts to what I throw at him.
“My plan is to go in there and shake him up, make him uncomfortable and carry the fight just like that.
“I am ready and whatever Thurman has to bring. אני מוכן ל 12 סיבובים, I’m ready to knock him out. I’m ready to do whatever it takes to win. אני מוכן.
On sparring with Thurman…
“We expect what we saw in sparring with him to show up in the fight. He moved around a lot when we sparred. There weren’t very many clean shots landed by either of us, but I know from sparring with him that I have to be aggressive and that I have to cutoff the ring.
“I would say that for the majority of this fight it is probably going to be me as the aggressor. He likes to bully guys at the beginning of the fight to wear them down to feel himself out.. We’re expecting him to move a lot more against me.
“We’re going to be aggressive, we’re going to be smart, we’re looking beyond this fight.
“In my last fight I didn’t get hit very much and I am taking that same mindset and defense into this fight.
On being the next Floyd Mayweather Jr…
“I am expecting to beat Keith and be the guy that everyone looks at.
“When you go up against someone at a high level like this, you go up and you show out.
“As far as Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, I think those faces are going away. The welterweight class is exciting and there’s going to be a new face on the top of that ranking. I’d like that face to be me.
“I don’t make any predictions; I just know I am going to win.
“I have been waiting for this fight since 2013. I had just gotten my title then and I could see the way his career was moving that there was a collision course. We didn’t know how long this fight would take to happen or when it would happen, but we knew it was coming.
“When I was told this fight was happening all I could think was ‘Ok, let’s do it’ and it took some time to make the fight happen but when we finally did our faceoff, it felt great to look him in the eyes and let him know ‘I’m coming after you.’
“For me to fight Keith it has always been something that was a part of my career, all business not personal. It was just something that I needed to do to get to where I want to be.
“Keith Thurman is a good fighter. Nothing really sticks out to me as something I should worry about. He’s a good athlete and a good boxer, but he is very beatable, he just hasn’t been beat yet.
“You’re only as good as you’re last competition. If you look at the Kell Brook fight, I was not as good as I should’ve been. Since then I am very good, but still I feel that you are only as good as your last fight until you prove otherwise.
“It is and isn’t personal. For Keith to be considered one of the top dogs in this weight class, it is personal to me to beat him and reign over him. חוץ מזה, it is all business.”
KEN PORTER
On being his son’s trainer…
“Because I have the history of working with a lot of top-level amateurs who have moved on to the professional level, I think that Shawn sees that in me as an edge.”
On his history with Keith Thurman…
“אני מכיר אותו טוב מאוד. I’ve had opportunities to work with him in the amateurs. I’ve had opportunities to work with him in the pros. I’ve worked in his corner in an amateur fight before, I’ve worked in his corner in a pro fight.
“Keith knows Shawn, they’ve sparred about 30 סיבובים. He knows speed and won’t come in the ring trying to land a significant shot from the beginning. If he’s throwing that punch, he’s probably running the other direction at the same time.
“I would challenge [תורמן] to come in the ring and fight, but I know he’s going to fight. I know he will try to outbox us and try to land a slick and unexpected punch. Anyone can land a shot on you, that happens, but it’s what you do after the punch that counts.
“We’re looking forward to trading punches, boxing with him, slugging with him. We’re looking for a fight.”
On what it will take to win this fight…
“At this point in time, there’s going to be a lot of adjustments that have to be made, and I can’t just determine what it’s going to take to do it, but I know it’s going to take everything – speed, quickness, כוח, aggressiveness, אוויר, making adjustments mentally – it’s an intellectual fight.”
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