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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, Juni 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
Klik HIER For A Look Back At Some Of The Legendary Moments On SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: http://s.sho.com/1RkA3CE
NEW YORK (Maart 2, 2016) - Showtime Sport rolls out its third installment of a year-long salute commemorating 30 jaren van 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. EN/PT op Showtime EXTREME.
De Donderdag, Maart 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:
- Morgen, Donderdag, Maart 3: Terry Norris vs. Sugar Ray Leonard
- Donderdag, Maart 10: Marvin Hagler vs. John Mugabi
- Donderdag, Maart 17: Felix Trinidad vs. David Reid
- Donderdag, Maart 24: Ricardo Lopez vs. Rosendo Alvarez II
- Donderdag, Maart 31: Iran Barkley vs. Thomas Hearns I, George Foreman vs. Gerry Cooney (10:15 p.m. EN/PT), Gerald McClellan vs. Julian Jackson I (10:30 p.m. ET / PT)
Ter ere van de beste rivaliteit op SHOWTIME, zie hieronder voor een speciale column van SHOWTIME Sports-expertanalist en bokshistoricus Steve Farhood.
LEGENDS
Door 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’ kaarten.
And oh, ja: 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 de 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, en 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 (Maart 1986), was the final win of his career. Undefeated over 10 jaar, 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 feite, 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 naar 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. Olympiërs, Pernell Whitaker, Oscar De La Hoya (albeit by a terrible decision), David Reid, and Fernando Vargas.
Bovendien, Whitaker, De La Hoya, and Reid had all been gold medalists.
The fight we’ll feature on Maart 17 op 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 pond) 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 feite, 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, goed, 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-Keer wereldkampioen THOMAS”The Hitman” Hearns BEVESTIGD VOOR DE TWEEDE JAARLIJKSE BOX FAN EXPO plaats zaterdag in Las Vegas
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De ultieme fan ervaring evenement dat boksen fans geeft de gelegenheid elkaar te ontmoeten-en-greet top vechters, boksen beroemdheden en de industrie mensen
in een close-up, persoonlijke instelling
Las Vegas (Zeven. 8, 2015) – Acht keer wereldkampioen Thomas “De Hitman” Hearns heeft bevestigd dat hij zal verschijnen en hebben een stand op de Las Vegas Convention Center voor de tweede jaarlijkse Box Fan Expo die zal plaatsvinden Zaterdag. De Boxing Expo zal samenvallen met de Floyd Mayweather vs Andre Berto kampioenschap strijd, die plek later die avond en de Mexicaanse Onafhankelijkheid weekend zal nemen. Tickets voor het Box Fan Expo zijn online beschikbaar op:http://www.boxfanexpo.
Hearns meer plaats bekend als “De Hitman,” werd de eerste bokser in de geschiedenis om wereldtitels te winnen in vier divisies. Hij zou ook de eerste vechter in de geschiedenis te worden tot vijf wereldtitels te winnen in vijf verschillende divisies. Hearns werd genoemd Ring Magazine Fighter van het Jaar in 1980 en 1984 en is vooral bekend om zijn gevechten met Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler en Roberto Duran. Hij werd ingewijd in de Boxing Hall of Fame in 2012. Hearns zal ook bij de hand, T-shirts, handschoenen en ondertekend foto's voor de fans om te kopen en te genieten.
Hearns voegt zich bij zijn oude rivaal 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, scheidsrechter Richard Steele, de Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame, de World Boxing Council (WBC) en de World Boxing Association (WBA) onder vroege toezeggingen om dit jaar Box Fan Expo.
Deze unieke fan ervaring evenement, waardoor fans te ontmoeten en begroeten boksen legendes, vroegere en huidige kampioenen en andere beroemdheden van de sport, debuteerde in september vorig jaar. Dit jaar, de Expo zal lopen van10 a.m. naar 5 p.m. en nogmaals, toestaan dat fans een kans om handtekeningen te verzamelen, foto's nemen en de aankoop merchandise en memorabilia.
Exposanten zoals boksen gear, kleding, uitzenden media en andere merken bedrijven die willen deelnemen zal een kans om hun producten te presenteren aan de fans en de hele boksen industrie.
Inaugurele Box Fan Expo van vorig jaar gekenmerkt enkele van de meest populaire vechters en boksen beroemdheden in de recente geschiedenis. Fans werden getrakteerd op bezoeken met Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr, Martinez, Amir Khan, Juda, Mikey Garcia,Toney, Riddick Bowe, Leon Spinks Terry Norris, Slijtage, Chris Byrd, Jesse James Leija, Lamon Brewster, Ray Mercer, Earnie Shavers, St-John, Erislandy Lara, Peter Quillin, Jean Pascal en Austin Trout. Ook verschijnen waren de huidige WBC kampioen Deontay Wilder, de charismatische Vinny Pazienza, Paul Williams, merkte commentator Al Bernstein en trainer Roger Mayweather van Mayweather Promotions.
Het rooster van de aanwezigen voor dit jaar Box Fan Expo zal gedurende de komende dagen in de aanloop naar het evenement aan te kondigen.
Voor iedereen in het boksen industrie of merk bedrijven die wensen te worden betrokken en reserveer een stand als exposant of sponsormogelijkheden, Neem contact op Box Fan Expo in:
U.S.A. telefoonnummer: (702) 997-1927 of (514) 572-7222
Voor eventuele vragen kunt u mailen: boxfanexpo@gmail.com
Meer informatie over de Box Fan Expo is beschikbaar op:http://www.boxfanexpo.com
Bekijk de officiële promo video van Box Fan Expo hier:http://www.boxfanexpo.com/
U kunt volgen Box Fan Expo op Twitter op: https://www.twitter.com/
en op Facebook op: https://www.facebook.com/
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