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TOP WELTERWEIGHTS: THURMAN-PORTER WINNER TOO CLOSE TO CALL
Keith Thurman vs. Shawn Porter Undercard Complete
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Qab zib 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, Lub rau hli ntuj 25 Live on 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
Nyem NTAWM NO For A Look Back At Some Of The Legendary Moments On SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: http://s.sho.com/1RkA3CE
TSHIAB YORK (Lub peb hlis ntuj 2, 2016) - SHOWTIME kev ua si rolls out its third installment of a year-long salute commemorating 30 years of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING in March with “Legends’’.
This month will be highlighted by legends Sugar Ray Leonard, Zoo kawg nkaus 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. THIAB/PT rau SHOWTIME huab.
Lub Thursday, Lub peb hlis ntuj 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 txhua lub sij hawm® 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:
- Tag kis, Thursday, Lub peb hlis ntuj 3: Terry Norris vs. Qab zib Ray Leonard
- Thursday, Lub peb hlis ntuj 10: Marvin Hagler vs. John Mugabi
- Thursday, Lub peb hlis ntuj 17: Felix Trinidad vs. David Reid
- Thursday, Lub peb hlis ntuj 24: Ricardo Lopez vs. Rosendo Alvarez II
- Thursday, Lub peb hlis ntuj 31: Iran Barkley vs. Thomas Hearns I, George Foreman vs. Gerry Cooney (10:15 p.m. THIAB/PT), Gerald McClellan vs. 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’ cards.
And oh, yeah: 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.
Nyob rau hauv lub 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.
On 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, and 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 (Lub peb hlis ntuj 1986), was the final win of his career. Undefeated over 10 xyoo, 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.
Qab zib TXOJ SAB CI 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. Nyob rau hauv qhov tseeb, 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, Qab zib Ray, 34, chose outstanding 23-year-old super welterweight titlist Terry Norris as his opponent. Leonard dropped from 160 rau 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. Olympians, Pernell Whitaker, Oscar tsib La Hoya (albeit by a terrible decision), David Reid, and Fernando Vargas.
Ntxiv, Whitaker, De La Hoya, and Reid had all been gold medalists.
The fight we’ll feature on Lub peb hlis ntuj 17 on 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 phaus) 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. Nyob rau hauv qhov tseeb, 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, zoo, 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-SIJHAWM NTIAJ TEB zus Thomas”LUB hitman” HEARNS CONFIRMED FOR SECOND ANNUAL BOX FAN EXPO TAKING PLACE SATURDAY IN LAS VEGAS
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Lub qhov kawg kiv cua kev tshwm sim hais tias muab boxing kiv cua lub sij hawm los sib ntsib-thiab-tos txais sab saum toj neeg tua hluav taws, boxing celebrities thiab kev lag luam neeg
in an up-close, tus kheej qhov chaw
Las Vegas (Xya. 8, 2015) – Yim-lub sij hawm lub ntiaj teb champion Thomas “Lub Hitman” Hearns tau paub tseeb hais tias hais tias nws yuav tshwm sim thiab muaj ib tug lub rooj muag zaub nyob rau Las Vegas Convention Center rau lub thib ob ib xyoos ib zaug Box Ntxuam Expo uas yuav muab qhov chaw Saturday. Lub Boxing Expo yuav coincide nrog Floyd Mayweather vs Andre Berto championship sib ntaus, uas yuav muab qhov chaw tom qab ntawd yav tsaus ntuj thiab Mexican Independence lis xaus. Daim pib mus rau lub Box Fan Expo yog muaj nyob online ntawm:http://www.boxfanexpo.
Hearns ntau famously lub npe hu ua “Lub Hitman,” los ua tus thawj boxer nyob rau hauv keeb kwm los yeej lub ntiaj teb no lub npe nyob rau hauv plaub sib cais. Nws kuj yuav ua tus thawj fighter nyob rau hauv keeb kwm los yeej tsib lub ntiaj teb no lub npe nyob rau hauv tsib txawv kev sib cais. Hearns twb muaj npe nplhaib Magazine Fighter ntawm lub xyoo nyob rau hauv 1980 thiab 1984 thiab yog zoo tshaj plaws paub txog nws sib ntaus nrog Qab Zib Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler thiab Roberto Duran. Nws twb inducted rau hauv lub Boxing Hall ntawm koob meej nyob rau hauv 2012. Hearns kuj yuav muaj nyob ntawm tes, T-shirts, hnab looj tes thiab kos npe rau daim duab rau cov kiv cua kom yuav thiab txaus siab rau.
Hearns koom nws laus nws cov yeeb ncuab Duran, Tim Bradley, Zab Judah, James Toney, Sergio Martinez, Shawn Porter, Mia St. John, Terry Norris, Joel Casamayor, Fernando Vargas, Ruslan Provodnikov, Ray Mancini, Jessie Vargas, Mike McCallum, Austin trout, Kevin Kelley, referee Richard Steele, lub Nevada Boxing Hall ntawm koob meej, lub ntiaj teb Boxing Council (Qhov) thiab lub ntiaj teb Boxing Association (WBA) cov thaum ntxov cog tseg rau lub xyoo no lub Box Ntxuam Expo.
Qhov no cim kiv cua kev tshwm sim, uas tso cai rau cov kiv cua mus ntsib thiab tos txais boxing legends, yav dhau los thiab tam sim no champions thiab lwm yam celebrities ntawm kev ua si nawv, debuted kawg lub Cuaj Hli Ntuj. Xyoo no, lub Expo yuav khiav los ntawm10 a.m. rau 5 p.m. thiab ib zaug dua, cia cov kiv cua ib lub caij nyoog mus sau autographs, coj cov duab thiab purchase khoom thiab Memorabilia.
Tso rau neeg pom xws li boxing iav, tsho, broadcasting xov xwm thiab lwm hom tuam txhab uas muag uas xav mus koom yuav muaj ib lub caij nyoog rau showcase lawv cov khoom rau kiv cua thiab tag nrho lub boxing kev lag luam.
Tsaib no lub inaugural Box Fan Expo featured ib co ntawm cov feem ntau nrov fighters thiab boxing celebrities nyob rau hauv tsis ntev los no keeb kwm. Kiv cua tau kho kom mus ntsib nrog Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr, Martinez, Amir Khan, Judah, Mikey Garcia,Toney, Riddick Bowe, Leon Spinks Terry Norris, Hnav, Chris Byrd, Jesse James Leija, Lamon Brewster, Ray Mercer, Earnie Shavers, St-John, Erislandy Lara, Peter Quillin, Jean Pascal thiab Austin trout. Tsis tas li ntawd hnyuj hnyo twb tam sim no WBC zus Deontay Wilder, lub charismatic Vinny Pazienza, Paul Williams, sau commentator Al Bernstein thiab tus kws qhia Roger Mayweather ntawm Mayweather Promotions.
Lub roster ntawm cov neeg tuaj rau lub xyoo no lub Box Ntxuam Expo yuav mus ntxiv yuav tsum tau tshaj tawm thoob plaws hauv lub tom ntej no ob peb hnub ua ntej cov kev tshwm sim.
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