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SHOWTIME® ACQUIRES AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY RINGSIDE

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RINGSIDE Chronicles The Lives And Struggles Of Two Boxing Prodigies Coming Of Age On Chicago’s South Side

Premieres On Friday, June 12 At 8:30 p.m. ET / PT in SHOWTIME

NEW YORK – May 4, 2020 - SHOWTIME announced today it has acquired rights to the award-winning documentary RINGSIDE, which chronicles the dramatic upbringing of two boxing prodigies and follows the divergent paths they take as they navigate life’s uncertainties on the South Side of Chicago. Filmed over the course of nine years by award-winning director Andre Hörmann, RINGSIDE will premiere on SHOWTIME on Friday, June 12 at 8:30 p.m. ET / PT.

Winner of the Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival, RINGSIDE documents the lives of Kenneth Sims Jr., Destyne Butler Jr., and their dedicated fathers who train them, and their aspirations of surviving one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the nation to achieve boxing glory. Hörmann teamed up with award-winning cinematographer Tom Bergmann and editor Vincent Assmann in 2009 to begin following the gifted young athletes. Starting with their U.S. Olympic® Boxing Team Trials, the filmmakers captured pivotal moments over nine years as the young men’s choices and circumstances changed, leading them down separate paths – one towards a promising boxing career and the other through the prison system.

“Filmed over the course of nine years, RINGSIDE is a complex, emotional account of two youths fighting to survive both professionally and personally,"Stephanus inquit Espinoza, Praeses, Sports and Event Programming, Networks Showtime Inc. “This remarkable film follows two gifted young boxers and the fathers who guide them, as they strive to overcome a seemingly never-ending series of personal and societal obstacles. The result is a moving story about hope, ambition, self-discipline, resilience and redemption. It is this type of provocative story, at the intersection of sports and society, that has become the hallmark of SHOWTIME Sports Documentary Films.”

Both young men achieved remarkable success in their amateur careers. Sims amassed over 250 amateur pugnat, winning numerous national titles, and after his professional debut in 2014, became a sought-after sparring partner for Manny Pacquiao and Jorge Linares among others. He has made four appearances on the SHOWTIME prospect developmental seriesShoBox: The New Generation to date. Conversely, Butler fell in with a burglary ring and served time in prison. He returned to boxing following his release in 2018, winning the Chicago Golden Gloves. He now stands undefeated following nine professional bouts.

A Sutor Kolonko and Motto Pictures production in association with Blue Ice Docs and Mitten Media, RINGSIDEis produced by two-time Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® Award winner Julie Goldman, Emmy Award winner Ingmar Trost and Emmy and Peabody Award winner Christopher Clements. The executive producers are Ken Pelletier, Mark Mitten and Carolyn Hepburn.

RINGSIDE is the latest in culturally relevant unscripted programming from SHOWTIME SPORTS DOCUMENTARY FILMS that spotlights contemporary subject matter. New customers who sign up on SHOWTIME.com and the SHOWTIME app can take advantage of a 30-day free trial for the SHOWTIME streaming service, available on SHOWTIME.com and the SHOWTIME app on all supported devices.

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SHOWTIME Sports Confirms Aug. 26 SHOWTIME PPV® Presentation Of Mayweather vs. McGregor Second Biggest Pay-Per-View Of All Time

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SHOWTIME SPORTS confirmed today that the SHOWTIME PPV presentation of Mayweather vs. McGregor on August 26, 2017 generated 4.3 million pay-per-view buys in North America. This includes traditional television distribution and online portals such as the new SHOWTIME PPV app and SHOWTIMEPPV.com as well as UFC.TV in U.S. et Canada.

Mayweather vs. McGregor, a four-fight SHOWTIME PPV boxing event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, officially stands as the second largest pay-per-view event of all time behind Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, which set the North American pay-per-view mark at 4.6 million buys in 2015. The SHOWTIME PPV totals for Mayweather vs. McGregor far exceed the now third best event in history—nearly doubling the 2.48 million buys for Oscar De La Hoya vs. Mayweather in 2007.

The total global revenue from the event including ticket sales, sponsorship and international distribution exceeds $600 million, which—along with Mayweather vs. Pacquiao— is among the largest for a single-day sporting event of all time. Mayweather and SHOWTIME PPV now account for the three highest grossing pay-per-view events in television history with the third-ranked event Mayweather vs. Canelo from 2013.

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SHOWTIME SPORTS® ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES “ALL ACCESS” WINS SPORTS EMMY® AWARD FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR

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NEW EBORACUM (May 11, 2016) - Sports SHOWTIME original documentary series “ALL ACCESS” earned a Sports Emmy Award for the third consecutive year on Tuesday nox, taking home the honor for “Outstanding Edited Sports Coverage” for “ALL ACCESS: Mayweather vs. Berto Epilogue” at the 37th Annual Sports Emmy pompis in New York City.

 

“The boxing business and the characters within it present unique challenges to anyone attempting to document it,” dixit Stephanus Espinoza, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Sports SHOWTIME. “The ability to produce award-winning work in this sport year-after-year is testament to the excellence of this production team. On behalf of everyone that contributes to this great franchise – from the field to the edit facility, working all hours of the day and the night – we are grateful for and inspired by this award.”

 

This is the second Sports Emmy ALL ACCESS has earned in the “Outstanding Edited Sports Coverage” category. The series, which chronicles buildup et Terrarum sequelae boxing 's maximus prizefights, won its first Sports Emmy Award at the 2014 ceremony for “Outstanding Edited Sports Coverage” with "ALL ACCESS: Mayweather vs. Canelo Epilogue."

 

In 2015, the revealing documentary series earned the overarching “Outstanding Sports Documentary Series” Emmy Award for its four separate multi-episode installments of ALL ACCESS. That year, the network documented the first and second showdowns between Floyd Mayweather and Marcos Maidana, Canelo Alvarez vs. Alfredo Angulo and Canelo Alvarez vs. Lara Erislandy.

 

SHOWTIME Sports has earned nine Sports Emmy Awards in the last five years for the premium networks’ programming.

 

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SHOWTIME SPORTS® CONTINUES CELEBRATION OF 30 YEARS OF SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® WITH PAULIE AYALA-JOHNNY TAPIA I & II, PLUS ISRAEL VAZQUEZ-RAFAEL MARQUEZ I, II & III

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UNRIVALED “RIVALRIES”

Click HIC to Watch Round 12 From Ayala-Tapia I & Tune-In Tonight To Re-Live The Full Fight (SHO, cum EXTREME® at 10 p.m. ATQUE/PT)

Photo Credit: Tom Casino / SHOWTIME

 

NEW EBORACUM (Feb. 4, 2016) – Round 2 autem Sports SHOWTIME® 12-round celebration commemorating 30 years of VINDICIAE SHOWTIME BOXING® continues in February with “Rivalries’’ onSHO, cum EXTREME®.

 

This month will be highlighted by five of the most exhilarating and memorable fights in boxing history: the two Paulie Ayala-Johnny Tapiabattles and the first three Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez wars.

 

Ayala-Tapia I was 1999 Anni proelium; Ayala was 1999 Pugnatore Anni.

 

The initial three Vazquez-Marquez showdowns are universally acknowledged as among the best of all-time and were consensus Fight of the Year winners in 2007 and ’08. Superaddita, the third round of Vazquez-Marquez II earned Round of the Year honors in ’07 while the fourth of Vazquez-Marquez III was 2008 Round Anni.

 

These epic rivalries will air on “Throwback Thursdays” all month long at10 p.m. ATQUE/PT on SHO EXTREME and are available on SHOWTIME ON DEMAND®, SHOWTIME ANYTIME® and via the network’s online streaming service. Each fight will be wrapped with brief context and commentary from SHOWTIME Sports host Brian Custer.

 

Below is the schedule of SHOWTIME EXTREME premieres for the month of February:

  • Today/Thursday, Feb. 4: Ayala vs. Tapia I
  • Thursday, Feb. 11: Ayala vs. Tapia II
  • Thursday, Feb. 18: Vazquez vs. I marquez & II
  • Thursday, Feb. 25: Vazquez vs. III marquez

 

In celebration of the best rivalries on SHOWTIME, see below for a special column from SHOWTIME Sports expert analyst and boxing historian Steve Farhood.

 

RIVALRIES

By Steve Farhood

Boxing without rivalries would be like elections without debates.

Rivalries are natural, especially in boxing. Who is the best prospect in the neighborhood?

Who is the best bantamweight in Mexico? Who is the best fighter in the entire world?

Fans want to know, and so do the fighters, especially if a one-on-one matchup is likely to provide a definitive answer.

The best example comes from the best rivalry in history, regardless of sport: When Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier clashed in their rubber match in Manila, they were fighting for something much greater than the world heavyweight title. They were fighting for the championship of each other.

Ali-Frazier … Robinson-LaMotta … Louis-Schmeling … Barrera-Morales … Mayweather-Pacquiao … Pep-Saddler … Leonard-Duran … Holyfield-Tyson: Boxing history has been told through its juiciest rivalries.

In 30 years of memorable fighters and unforgettable fights, SHOWTIME boxing’s history can largely be told through its rivalries as well.

In summa SHOWTIME, we’ll be focusing on two rivalries in particular: Rafael Marquez-Israel Vazquez and Paulie Ayala-Johnny Tapia.

Marquez-Vazquez is the equal of any pairing in recent history. So compelling were the battles, so consuming was the rivalry that many fans can’t tell you what the final scoreboard read. It didn’t matter all that much.

(Fittingly, the fighters split four bouts.)

What made Marquez-Vazquez different from most rivalries: They were defined more by similarities than differences. Most rivalries feature stark contrast. Think Borg-McEnroe. Or Bird-Magic. Or Evert-Navratilova. But Marquez and Vazquez were both classy champions from Mexico who needed each other to raise their profiles and all-time standings.

They gave us no trash-talking, no posturing, no hatred, real or imagined. Instead, they punched and bled and fought proudly and at the highest level. And because of the classic ring drama they created, that was more than enough.

Suffice to say that two of their bouts were chosen as Fight of the Year. And Marquez-Vazquez III was surely among the best fights I’ve covered live in my 37 years in boxing.

It was a bit different with Ayala and Tapia. When they first fought, Ayala wasn’t a familiar name. Tapia, Contra, was an undefeated and long-reigning champion with a unique personality and a distinctive ring persona.

A suitable rival is exactly what Tapia needed to fully realize the potential that we sensed when he soundly defeated New Mexico rival Danny Romero two years before.

A pair of controversial decisions, the contentiousness that marked the negotiations preceding the rematch, and Tapia’s raw emotion made Ayala-Tapia a particularly bitter rivalry.

It was a memorable rivalry as well.

 

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SHOWTIME SPORTS® honorare EXPLETO ISRAEL Vazquez-RAFAEL MARQUEZ RIVARLY CUM FIGHTS ATTICUS, Rounds, PHOTOS, STATS & PRAETER

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& SHOWTIME Press® Incipiens autem Vasquez Cum Márquez I-

At TONIGHT 10 p.m. ATQUE/In summa PT SHOWTIME

 

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Photo Credit: Tom Casino / SHOWTIME

 

NEW EBORACUM (March 3, 2015) - Sports SHOWTIME will offer boxing fans a chance to relive one of boxing’s most intense and brutal rivalries as it rolls out content in celebration of the classic showdowns between Mexican legends Israel Vazquez atque Rafael marquez.

 

Tonight, primo anniversario die octavo heroicos proelium, SHOWTIME EXTREME (10 p.m. ATQUE/PT) adducet munus Vazquez marquez I-, consulto omnium delectu 2007 Anni proelium. Ergo on Wednesday, Vazquez marquez II-, quod fit vetus schola Slugfest rotundam Anni Victor, at will air 11 p.m. ATQUE/PT. The third installment, autem 2008 Annus of proelium, et a'ri at on Thursday 10 p.m. ATQUE/PT in SHOWTIME EXTREME

 

More, I-IV-marquez Vazquez in aerem, et per "roadblock" hoc Saturday in SUMMUS SHOWTIME incipientes ET Noon/PT.

 

In honorem aemulatione, Sports SHOWTIME utique debitorem classic photos, velox-hitting elucidat, stats as well as full rounds. The third round from Vazquez-Marquez I and the third round from Vazquez-Marquez II (2007 Round Anni) erit available on YouTube, Facebook and the SHOWTIME Sports website. Superaddita, In pugilatu Blog remittemus columnae ex analyst SHOWTIME caestu et historicus Steve Farhood quod respicit ad tres primos congressus inter heroicis CXXII pondo bellatorum.

 

Omnes marquez pugnat erit praesto quattuor-Vazquez SHOWTIME ANYTIME atqueSHOWTIME Press incipiens Monday, March 9. Below is the full schedule of action on SHOWTIME EXTREME:

 

Hodie / Monday, March 3

· SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: Vazquez vs. I marquez, 10 p.m. ATQUE/PT

 

Wednesday, March 4

· SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: Vazquez vs. II marquez, 11 p.m. ATQUE/PT

 

Thursday, March 5

· SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: Vazquez vs. III marquez, 10 p.m. ATQUE/PT

 

Saturday, March 7

· SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: Vazquez vs. I marquez,ET Noon/PT

· SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: Vazquez vs. II marquez, 1 p.m. ATQUE/PT

· SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: Vazquez vs. III marquez, 2 p.m. ATQUE/PT

· SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: Vazquez vs. IV marquez, 3 p.m. ATQUE/PT

 

Describitur per quod Farhood "Erupturam artis saevitiae," their first meeting had all the action and drama of a Hollywood blockbuster and left fans –and the fighters– clamoring for a rematch. Vazquez and Marquez delivered yet again in their second meeting just five months later in yet another old-school, Anni victor cruentus Slugfest eo, qui inducitur a Rotundus peius id postularet, et per consequens ut a rubber pares.

 

Vazquez marquez-III, lis iustus 363 Et primus eorum congressus ex diebus suis, erat celebratio caestu ad suum mundissimo, tantum par spatium ut ingrederentur et aemulatione 2008 Anni proelium. The two would meet for the fourth and final time again in 2010.

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