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TOP WELTERWEIGHTS: THURMAN-PORTER WINNER TOO CLOSE TO CALL
Keith Thurman vs. Shawn Porter Undercard Complete
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Sugar Ray Leonard & Thomas Hearns, Two Hall of Fame Welterweight Champions, Weigh-In on the Keith Thurman-Shawn Porter 147-Pound Championship Battle at Barclays Center on Saturday, Juin 25 En direct sur CBS
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A LEGENDARY MARCH THROUGH THE DECADES – SHOWTIME SPORTS® CONTINUES CELEBRATION OF 30 YEARS OF SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING®
Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns, Felix Trinidad, Ricardo Lopez, George Foreman & More Showcased In March
Cliquez ICI For A Look Back At Some Of The Legendary Moments On SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: http://s.sho.com/1RkA3CE
NEW YORK (Mars 2, 2016) - Sports Showtime rolls out its third installment of a year-long salute commemorating 30 années de Showtime Championship Boxing in March with “Legends’’.
This month will be highlighted by legends Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Felix Trinidad, Ricardo “Finito” Lopez and George Foreman. Seven of the most unforgettable and important fights from these legends – some of which have seldom been re-aired since their live presentation – are available now on the network’s on demand platforms and will air will air on “Throwback Thursdays”in March at 10 p.m. ET/PT sur Showtime EXTREME.
Le Jeudi, Mars 10 presentation of Marvin Hagler vs. John Mugabi airs exactly 30 years after the final win of Hagler’s Hall of Fame career on March 10, 1986. Hagler vs. Mugabi was the first main event to ever air on SHOWTIME®.
The classic fights, which are also are available on SHOWTIME ON DEMAND®, SHOWTIME EN TOUT TEMPS® and via the network’s standalone streaming service, will be wrapped with brief context and commentary from SHOWTIME Sports host Brian Custer.
Below is the schedule of SHO EXTREME premieres for the month of March:
- Demain, Jeudi, Mars 3: Terry Norris vs. Sugar Ray Leonard
- Jeudi, Mars 10: Marvin Hagler vs. John Mugabi
- Jeudi, Mars 17: Felix Trinidad vs. David Reid
- Jeudi, Mars 24: Ricardo Lopez vs. Rosendo Alvarez II
- Jeudi, Mars 31: Iran Barkley vs. Thomas Hearns I, George Foreman vs. Gerry Cooney (10:15 p.m. ET/PT), Gerald McClellan contre. Julian Jackson I (10:30 p.m. ET/PT)
In celebration of the best rivalries on SHOWTIME, see below for a special column from SHOWTIME Sports expert analyst and boxing historian Steve Farhood.
LEGENDS
By Steve Farhood
Boxing without legends would be like religion without saints.
There’s no formula for a fighter to advance from star to superstar to legend. The process depends on timing, circumstance, and sometimes as little as a point or two on the judges’ cartes.
And oh, ouais: It helps if a guy can really fight.
As we celebrate 30 years of boxing on SHOWTIME, we’re focusing on a different theme each month. Throughout March, the theme will be Legends.
Dans le 130 years from John L. Sullivan to Floyd Mayweather, boxing has given us what other sports can’t provide. Consider:
- The Associated Press voted Luis Firpo’s knockdown of Jack Dempsey as the greatest sports moment of the first half of the 20th Century.
- The Frazier-Ali “Fight Of The Century” in 1971 was easily the most anticipated sporting event in history.
- Last year’s Mayweather-Pacquiao fight generated more than half-a-billion dollars — in one night!
Legends are made by big moments … and how they respond to those moments.
sur SHOWTIME, we’ve featured three decades worth of legends. Here’s a look at those who will share the spotlight in March.
MARVIN HAGLER: Since Vince Lombardi didn’t exactly say, “Timing isn’t everything, it’s the only thing,” Hagler should’ve said it.
Hagler was a great fighter long before he was a superstar, but it wasn’t until he fought Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns, et Sugar Ray Leonard (three of Hagler’s last six bouts) that Marvin became Marvelous.
Hagler’s one appearance on SHOWTIME, which happened to be the first bout televised on the network (Mars 1986), was the final win of his career. Undefeated over 10 ans, Hagler had established himself as one of the greatest middleweights in history. And while it could be argued in hindsight that at age 31, the ultimate blue-collar fighter was slightly past his prime, much of what made Hagler special was on display during his savage defense against his unbeaten and ferocious challenger, John Mugabi.
Almost three decades after his retirement, Hagler remains the middleweight today’s 160-pounders are measured against.
Sugar Ray Leonard: If Hagler bloomed late, Leonard was a superstar before he threw a single punch as a professional.
Back in the mid-‘70s, that’s what a magnetic smile, an Olympic gold medal, and repeated exposure on prime time television could do for a young fighter.
It’s ironic that Leonard was initially viewed by some as a coddled creation of the media. En fait, he was as tough as any fighter of the star-studded early-‘80s. Better yet, he remains the best fighter I’ve covered in 38 years on the boxing beat.
Leonard’s appearance on SHOWTIME was the penultimate bout of his career. In electing to end yet another lengthy layoff, Sugar Ray, 34, chose outstanding 23-year-old super welterweight titlist Terry Norris as his opponent. Leonard dropped from 160 à 154 pounds and fought at Madison Square Garden for the first time.
The bout served as a reminder that at least in a pre-Bernard Hopkins world, boxing was very much a young man’s game.
FELIX TRINIDAD: There are only three Hispanic fighters who became superstars in the USA without speaking English. The first was Panama’s Roberto Duran. The second was Mexico’s Julio Cesar Chavez.
The third was Puerto Rico’s Trinidad.
Trinidad’s motto might as well have been, “If you can’t be from America, then beat America.”
A classic puncher with a boy scout’s smile and a fan-friendly personality, Trinidad made his name by defeating four U.S. Olympiens, Pernell Whitaker, Oscar De La Hoya (albeit by a terrible decision), David Reid, and Fernando Vargas.
En outre, Whitaker, De La Hoya, and Reid had all been gold medalists.
The fight we’ll feature on Mars 17 sur SHO EXTREME, Trinidad vs. Reid, was Trinidad’s 14th and final appearance on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING and SHOWTIME pay-per-view.
From his welterweight title-winning kayo of Maurice Blocker in 1993 through his defense against Mahenge Zulu in 1998, 13 of Trinidad’s 14 bouts were aired on SHOWTIME. Twelve of those fights were knockout wins.
Where Trinidad ranks with Wilfredo Gomez, Miguel Cotto, Carlos Ortiz, Wilfred Benitez, and the rest of the legends from Puerto Rico is debatable. What is inarguable is that “Tito” generated as much excitement as any fighter of his era.
RICARDO LOPEZ: What’s smaller: the chance that a strawweight (105 livres) becomes an American television star or the fighter himself?
There’s never been an American world champion at strawweight (or minimumweight). We just don’t grow fighters that size. En fait, until the emergence of Mexico’s Lopez in the early-’90s, most American boxing fans couldn’t have identified a single strawweight if armed with a map of the world and a set of WBC ratings.
Lopez was so complete, so dominant, so technically perfect, that from 1994 to ’99, he was a staple of SHOWTIME’s boxing programming. He fought 13 consecutive bouts on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING or SHOWTIME Pay-Per-View, and the first 11 of those contests were defenses of the strawweight title.
And if you think the little guys can’t punch, bien, there were some one-punch kayos sprinkled in.
Lopez, who retired with a mark of 51-0-1, is universally acknowledged as an all-time great. Too bad he never fought America’s Michael Carbajal at light flyweight. Had he won that bout, he’d likely be acknowledged as one of the two or three greatest Mexican fighters ever.
Which is saying a lot for a fighter who never faced an opponent recognized by the American viewing public.
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8-Fois champion du monde THOMAS”The Hitman” HEARNS CONFIRMEE POUR LA DEUXIÈME ANNUEL BOX FAN EXPO aura lieu le samedi à Las Vegas
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L'événement de l'expérience de fan ultime qui donne les amateurs de boxe l'occasion de rencontrer et saluer meilleurs combattants-, célébrités de boxe et de gens de l'industrie
dans une de près, réglage personnel
Las Vegas (Sept. 8, 2015) – Huit fois champion du monde Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns a confirmé qu'il apparaîtra et avoir un stand au Convention Center de Las Vegas pour la deuxième exposition annuelle Fan Box qui aura lieu Samedi. L'Expo de boxe coïncidera avec le Floyd Mayweather vs Andre Berto combat de championnat, qui aura lieu plus tard ce soir et week-end Indépendance mexicaine. Les billets pour l'Expo Fan Box sont disponibles en ligne à:http://www.boxfanexpo.
Hearns plus connu comme étant “The Hitman,” est devenu le premier boxeur de l'histoire à gagner des titres mondiaux dans quatre divisions. Il serait également devenir le premier boxeur de l'histoire à remporter cinq titres mondiaux dans cinq divisions différentes. Hearns a été nommé Ring Magazine Fighter de l'année en 1980 et 1984 et est surtout connu pour ses combats avec Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler et Roberto Duran. Il a été intronisé au Temple de la renommée en boxe 2012. Hearns sera également avoir en main, T-shirts, des gants et des photos signées pour les fans d'acheter et de profiter.
Hearns rejoint son vieux rival Duran, Tim Bradley, Zab Judah, James Toney, Sergio Martinez, Shawn Porter, Mia St. Jean, Terry Norris, Joel Casamayor, Fernando Vargas, Ruslan Provodnikov, Ray Mancini, Jessie Vargas, Mike McCallum, Austin Trout, Kevin Kelley, arbitre Richard Steele, Nevada boxe Hall of Fame, Conseil mondial de boxe (WBC) et l'Association mondiale de boxe (WBA) parmi les premiers engagements à l'Expo Fan Box de cette année.
Cet événement unique expérience de fan, ce qui a permis aux fans de rencontrer et saluer les légendes de boxe, champions passées et actuelles et d'autres célébrités du sport, a fait ses débuts Septembre dernier. Cette année, l'Expo se déroulera du10 a.m. à 5 p.m. et une fois de plus, permettre aux fans une chance de recueillir des autographes, prendre des photos et acheter des marchandises et des souvenirs.
Les exposants comme les engins de boxe, vêtements, les médias de radiodiffusion et d'autres entreprises de la marque qui souhaitent participer auront la chance de présenter leurs produits aux fans et l'ensemble de l'industrie de la boxe.
Inaugurale Expo Fan Box de l'an dernier mettait en vedette certains des combattants les plus populaires et les célébrités de boxe dans l'histoire récente. Les fans ont eu droit à des visites avec Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr, Martinez, Amir Khan, Juda, Mikey Garcia,Toney, Riddick Bowe, Leon Spinks Terry Norris, Porter, Chris Byrd, Jesse James Leija, Lamon Brewster, Ray Mercer, Earnie Shavers, St-John, Erislandy Lara, Peter Quillin, Jean Pascal et Austin Trout. Apparaissent également été champion du WBC Deontay Wilder, Vinny Pazienza le charismatique, Paul Williams, commentateur a noté Al Bernstein et entraîneur Roger Mayweather de Promotions Mayweather.
La liste des participants pour Box Fan Expo de cette année continuera à être annoncé au cours des prochains jours qui ont précédé l'événement.
Pour quiconque dans l'industrie de la boxe ou de marque des entreprises qui souhaitent être impliqués et réserver un stand en tant qu'exposant ou les possibilités de commandite, s'il vous plaît contacter Expo Fan Box au:
Numéro de téléphone U.S.A: (702) 997-1927 ou (514) 572-7222
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