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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, June 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
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NEW EBORACUM (March 2, 2016) - Sports SHOWTIME rolls out its third installment of a year-long salute commemorating 30 years of VINDICIAE SHOWTIME BOXING in March with “Legends’’.
This month will be highlighted by legends Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin mirabile 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. ATQUE/PT in SHOWTIME EXTREME.
The Thursday, March 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 ANYTIME® 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:
- Cras, Thursday, March 3: Terry Norris vs. Sugar Ray Leonard
- Thursday, March 10: Marvin Hagler vs. John Mugabi
- Thursday, March 17: Felix Trinidad vs. David Reid
- Thursday, March 24: Ricardo Lopez vs. Rosendo Alvarez II
- Thursday, March 31: Iran Barkley vs. Thomas Hearns I, George Foreman vs. Willie Cooney (10:15 p.m. ATQUE/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.
In 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 (March 1986), was the final win of his career. Undefeated over 10 annis, 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. In eo,, 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 ad 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 De Hoya (albeit by a terrible decision), David Reid, and Fernando Vargas.
Insuper, Whitaker, De Hoya, and Reid had all been gold medalists.
The fight we’ll feature on March 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 libras) 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. In eo,, 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, bene, 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-TIME MUNDO CHAMPION THOMAS”THE hitman” HEARNS CONFIRMED FOR SECOND ANNUAL BOX FAN EXPO TAKING PLACE SATURDAY IN LAS VEGAS
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Ultimum fan experientia eventus quod dat occasionem boxing fans obviam-et-greet top pugnatores, boxing celebrities et industria populus
in an up-close, personal occasum
Las Vegas (Septem. 8, 2015) – Octo-tempus mundi fortissimus Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns umbraculum et confirmavit, quod apparebit in Las Quo Conventus centrum secundi anno fient turpis Box Fan Saturday. Boxing Expo coincidet cum Mayweather vs Andre Berto patrocinium certamen, quae oportet fieri post vesperam et purus volutpat fermentum. Tesseras ad Box Fan Expo sint online at:http://www.boxfanexpo.
Hearns famosius notus ut “The Hitman,” factus est primus in historia pugilem Vincere titulis quadrifariam diviso orbis. Ille etiam factus est primus mundi propugnator in historia vincere quinque titulos quinque in diversis partibus. Hearns nominatus Ring Magazine Pugnator Anni in 1980 atque 1984 quia pugnat cum Saccharo notissimo Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler et Roberto Duran. Fama fuit in curia induxerit in Pugilatu 2012. Hearns Habebit etiam in manu, T-shirts, caestus exaratam et subscriptam pictures pro fans emere et frui.
Hearns Jungit antiquis aemula Duran, Tim Bradley, Iab Iuda, James Toney, Sergio Martinez, Shawn Porter, Mia St. John, Terry Norris, Joel Casamayor, Vargas fernando, Ruslan Provodnikov, Ray Mancini, Vargas Jessie, Mike McCallum, Austin Trout, Kevin Kelley, referendarius Richard Steele, Nevada pugilatu Hall de Fama, the World Boxing Council (WBC) et Mundus Boxing Consociationis (WBA) apud mane commitments ad huius anni Box Fan Expo.
Huius singularis eventus experientia fan, quæ tum fans obviam ei ut salutaret boxing legends, et fortes current ludo fieri praeterita, Septembri ultimo debuted. Hoc anno, turpis et fugiet non a facie10 a.m. ad 5 p.m. et iterum:, sino fans a chance colligere autógrafos, imagines et emptio mercibus atque memorabilia.
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Tandem Anno scriptor Box inauguralis Fan Expo featured quidam ex maxime popularis et pugnatoribus boxing celebrities in recent history. Habiti sunt ad fans visitatio cum Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr, Martinez, Amir Khan, Judah, Garcia mikey,Toney, Riddick: Inclinate, Leon Spinks Terry Norris, Gere,, Chris Byrd, Jesse James Leija, Lamon Brewster, Ray Mercer, Earnie Shavers, John st-, Lara Erislandy, Peter Quillin, Jean Pascal et Austin Trout. Etiam apparitio sufficiebat were current WBC Champion Deontay Wilder, charismata Vinny Pazienza, Paul Williams, notandum commentator Al Bernstein and Roger trainer Mayweather of Mayweather Promotions.
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